The following topics are called for:

The first focus is called for by the ICT theme and includes:

• ICT-SEC-2007.1.7: Technology building blocks for creating, monitoring and managing secure, resilient and always available information infrastructures that link critical infrastructures

a) Understanding and managing the interactions and complexity of interdependent critical infrastructures; mastering their vulnerabilities; preventing against cascading effects; providing recovery and continuity in critical scenarios (including research towards designing and building self adapted and self healing complex systems); and security and dependability metrics and assurance methods for quantifying infrastructure interdependencies.
b) Designing and developing secure and resilient networked and distributed information and process control systems; systemic risk analysis and security configuration and management of critical information infrastructures and dynamic assurance frameworks for interconnecting them with critical infrastructures; availability of security forensics.
c) Developing longer term visions and research roadmaps; metrics and benchmarks for comparative evaluation in support of certification and standardisation; international cooperation and co-ordination with developed countries; coordination with related national or regional programmes or initiatives.

Funding schemes: (a) and (b) Collaborative Projects ('small or medium scale focused research projects' only); (c) Coordination and support actions (aiming at coordinating or at supporting research activities).

Focus of the Security Theme
The second focus is called for by the Security theme and is addressing technology building blocks for creating, monitoring and managing secure, resilient and always available transport and energy infrastructures that survive malicious attacks or accidental failures and guaranteeing continuous provision of services. The following topics are called:

• ICT-SEC-2007-1.0-01 Risk assessment and contingency planning for interconnected transport or energy networks

Technical content / scope: The task is to develop integrated frameworks and agreed, common methodologies for (a) global analyses and assessment of risks, failures and vulnerabilities of transport or energy infrastructures, and (b) management and contingency planning based on the compilation and analyses of emergency plans, to assure interoperability between interconnected and interdependent heterogeneous transport or energy infrastructures.

Funding scheme(s): Collaborative project and Coordination and support action (aiming at supporting research activities).

• ICT-SEC-2007-1.0-02 Modelling and simulation for training

Technical content / scope: Security crises concerning cross-border interconnected European transport or energy infrastructures can lead to effects with high impacts of disruption. The task consists of modelling & simulation including scenario building for handling security incidents to support the training of crisis managers.

Funding scheme(s): Collaborative project.

• ICT-SEC-2007-1.0-03 Optimised situational awareness through intelligent surveillance of interconnected transport or energy infrastructures

Technical content / scope: The task consists of developing tools that integrate smart surveillance information from interconnected and heterogeneous transport or energy infrastructures in order to build up high level situation awareness. The objective is to enable optimized decision making required for cross-border interoperable crisis management to ensure secure, resilient and always available transport or energy infrastructures.

Funding scheme(s): Collaborative project.

• ICT-SEC-2007-1.0-04 ICT support for first responders in crises occurring in critical infrastructures

Technical content / scope: The task consists of developing novel technologies for personal digital support systems as part of an integral, secure emergency management system to support first responders in crises occurring in various types of critical infrastructures under all circumstances. The action has to build upon ongoing research on emergency management, secure wireless communication, first responder technologies, etc. See as well topic SEC-2007-4.3.03 Personal equipment with a view to compatibility and complementarity.

Funding scheme(s): Collaborative project.

Identifier: FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1
Publication date: 03 August 2007
Budget: € 40 000 000
Deadline: 29 November 2007 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

Consortia are strongly encouraged to actively involve SMEs and end users.

Positively evaluated proposals involving sensitive and classified information, those involving international co-operation as well as those collaborative projects where 75% funding for all participants is foreseen will be flagged to the members of the Security Programme Committee configuration and dealt with according to its Rules for Procedure.

Further information:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.CooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=70