ICT 2023

The Academy of Finland and Business Finland jointly implement the research, development and innovation programme ICT 2023. Ten million euros of the Academy of Finland’s budget authority for 2020 will be used to implement the programme.

The aim of the programme, according to the report “21 Paths to a Frictionless Finland” by the ICT 2015 Working Group, is to further improve Finland’s scientific expertise in computer science and to promote the broad-based application of ICT. The programme brings together universities, research institutes, business companies and funding bodies.

Themes for April 2020 call

• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: ICT Technologies for the Digital Transformation of Industry (PDF)
• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: New ICT Solutions for Space Industry and Sectors Utilising Space-Based Data (PDF)

ICT 2023 roadmap

The Academy’s Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering has identified the following potential research topics and call themes:

• Digitalisation
• Enhancing human capabilities with ICT
• Life science informatics
• Materials informatics
• Networked control systems
• Network security and privacy
• New computational paradigms

Previous calls: Research, Development and Innovation Programme

• ICT 2023: Autonomous Everything (PDF)
• ICT 2023: Innovation, Business and Sustainability in and with Software (PDF)
• ICT 2023: Programmable World and Advanced Software Techniques (PDF)
• ICT 2023: Beyond 5G Systems (PDF)
• ICT 2023: Energy-Efficient ICT Systems of the Future (2017)
  • call text (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Industrial Internet (2017)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Computation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (2017)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: User-Centred Health Technology and Digital Health Services (2017)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Autonomous Systems and the Augmented Human (2016)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Information Security (2015)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Advanced Microsystems: from Smart Components to Cyber-Physical Systems (2015)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Methods and Applications for Management and Analysis of Big Data and Open Data (2014)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: ICT Sensors and Actuators (2013)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• ICT 2023: Information Security (2013)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects

WiFiUS calls

• Academy of Finland and NSF: WiFiUS Wireless Communications and Networking (2016)
  • memorandum (PDF)
  • funded projects
• Academy of Finland, Business Finland, NSF: WiFiUS Wireless Communication, memorandum (PDF)