ICT BEYOND LIMITS builds on fundamental purpose-driven basic-science and technology-oriented research, which truly is of transformative nature, in the sense of leading to exceptional and unprecedented outcomes (the nurturing of this type of research representing clearly the FET mission).
It is multidisciplinary by nature and integrates diverse scientific and technological communities:
All these outstanding communities and disciplines will be federated under the common ICT BEYOND LIMITS initiative, thus forming an unprecedented critical mass that would be needed to ensure Europe’s leadership in the ICT field for the next decades, when the limits on the traditional electronics will be hit. It should be stressed that the theoretical communities in all the aforementioned areas will play an important role in the ICT BEYOND LIMITS flagship: they will push the knowledge of fundamental science topics (quantum physics, and nanoscale thermodynamics, to mention a few) beyond the state of the art, will investigate fundamentally new models and algorithms, protocols and approaches to ICT and in general they will guide and support experimental activity and covering a wide range of physical systems and technologies.
In addition, the ICT BEYOND LIMITS Flagship initiative will heavily rely on the intensive use of European integration centers, specialized labs and clean room facilities for nanotechnologies, large scale research instruments and HPC centers; at the same time it will gather participants from the following industrial sectors:
Finally, ICT BEYOND LIMITS will federate and transcend several European research efforts on the subjects of e-Design, Supercomputing, Quantum Technologies and Phonons & Fluctuations, in particular: