The ICT PSP aims to stimulate innovation and competitiveness and accelerate the development of a sustainable, competitive, innovative and inclusive information society. It supports activities to accelerate innovation and implementation of ICT based services and systems through the wider uptake and best use of ICT and the exploitation of digital content by citizens, governments and businesses.
The programme will facilitate the development of lead markets for innovative ICT-based solutions notably in areas of public interest and will open a wide range of new business opportunities in particular for innovative SMEs.
The ICT PSP addresses technology and non technology innovation that has moved beyond final research demonstration phase. The ICT PSP does not support research activities, although it may cover when needed technical adaptation and integration work in order to achieve the target objectives.
The themes of the 2009 work programme are:
- ICT for health, ageing and inclusion
- Digital Libraries
- ICT for government and governance
- ICT for energy efficiency and environment
- Multilingual Web
- Public Sector information
- Internet evolution and security (including RFID)
- Open innovation, user experience and living labs
The themes will be supported by a limited number of high impact pilot or best practices projects, as well as thematic networks addressing specific objectives. The projects will be selected through a call for proposals.