In the framework of the ICT event in Europe, the European Commission is inviting young students with an innovative ICT-related research project to win the possibility to showcase it in the ‘ICT 2013 – Create, Connect, Grow’ event which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania on 6-8 November 2013 and it will focus on Horizon 2020 – the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2014-2020.

The projects can be submitted in the following categories, which reflect the orientations of the ICT research in the next European research framework programme, Horizon 2020:
 

• New components and systems, low-power computing;
   
• Networking technologies, cloud computing;
   
• Smart personal environments, robotics;
   
• Technologies for content and information (new interfaces, big data, tools for creative content and media);
   
• ICT for societal challenges (health, security, sustainability, education, inclusion);
   
• Digital platforms and tools for collaboration;
   
• Other innovative ICT research projects.
   

   

  Criteria
  – Entries can be submitted individually or in small groups (max 5 students).
  – A student submitting a project should be officially registered as a student in an EU educational institution at the time of submission. If the submission is made by a team, the project leader must be a student at an EU university.

  The European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology will select 8 finalists, which will demonstrate their projects at the ICT 2013 event in Vilnius.
  Only three winners will be selected and awarded.

  Deadline to submit entries: was 3 July 2013 at 16:00 CET.

  For any further information, please read the terms and conditions.

  We will keep you informed when a new call is published.