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ITEA 4 Scope

ITEA 3 has shown strong impact in many industries that are crucial for the economic and competitive position of our partners. Besides economic impact via employment growth, revenue growth and new investments, ITEA projects have delivered societal solutions and impact for the following key challenges:

• Smart cities
• Smart communities
• Smart health
• Smart mobility
• Smart industry
• Smart engineering
• Safety and Security

In addition to these challenges, which will remain key for future ITEA projects, an extra challenge has been defined for ITEA 4:

• Smart energy

These areas are closely related and contribute to two main challenges defined by many countries around the world for the coming decade: Sustainability/Green Economy and Digital Transition. The Digital Transition will contribute to many aspects of sustainability in society: not only renewable energy and power distribution, but also sustainable means of mobility, durable future concepts for health and more.

Mission

ITEA’s mission is to spawn innovative, funded projects of high quality that, catalysed by the ITEA label and coaching, deliver game-changing solutions through software innovation and ensure fast as well as long-term exploitation of results. ITEA wants to cover software innovation for the full stack, from user experience to embedded software and to self-innovate continuously to help the ITEA Community deliver new products, services and technologies in an efficient way.

Ambitions

The ambition for ITEA projects is to:

• Provide concrete global solutions with tangible results to tackle the urgent challenges and trends of society defined by international consortia to the benefit of all stakeholders
• Accelerate the sustainable growth of industry through innovative products, platforms and standards
• Push for new and emerging trends in software innovation including AI, Big Data, Machine Learning, etc.
• Create crossover innovations through ITEA’s open innovation Community and by cooperating with other Eureka Clusters

The ambition for the ITEA programme management is to steer R&D&I to achieve optimal impact starting from the concrete needs of customers, end users and society, and to support the sustainable growth of European enterprises. Therefore, it is ITEA 4’s ambition to enlarge its Community with stakeholders from the market in order to support this mission. They can be a determining factor for the added value of project results and the follow-up of project results.

ITEA 4 will build a global Customer Advisory Board for specific challenges and demands of a group of stakeholders, for customer validation and market introduction. It is in the customer’s interest to become aware of innovation trends and to identify the right partners that can solve their challenges. It is in ITEA’s interest to achieve impactful projects with fast exploitation.

Finally, ITEA 4 will strive to have a strong role in the Eureka Clusters Programme launched in July 2021. First of all, this means that ITEA 4 will remain an exemplary Community that fosters and strengthens the bottom-up approach by maintaining the so-called bottom-up single Cluster Calls, but also by facilitating and giving a bottomup colour to the Joint Calls. The Joint Calls will lead to new combinations between Eureka Clusters, and can also act as a springboard for newcomers to participate in single Cluster Calls.

ITEA 4 will commit to:

• Actively approaching new countries involved in the ECP Calls to become part of the ITEA Community
• Stimulating countries to allocate extra country budgets for the ECP Calls to support the thematic Calls over and above the single industry-driven Cluster Calls
• Implementing evaluation methods and schemes that result in a balance between high-quality proposals and a short time to contract; the organisation of Joint Calls is expected to increase this alignment and streamlining.