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The FuturICT
intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists
in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and
everything it relates to. The FuturICT flagship proposal will produce historic
breakthroughs and provide powerful new ways to manage challenges that make the
modern world so difficult to predict, including the financial crisis.
FuturICT is at the heart of a revolutionary 21st Century science project, which
will use and develop information and communication technologies (ICT) to create
a decision support system, combining data with models in order to solve the grand
challenges humanity is facing. The ultimate goal of the FuturICT Flagship is to
understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus
on sustainability and resilience. Revealing the hidden laws and processes
underlying societies constitutes the most pressing scientific grand challenge
of our century and is equally important for the development of novel robust,
trustworthy and adaptive information and communication technologies (ICT), based
on socially inspired paradigms. FuturICT will lift our knowledge of social and
economic systems to a new level of understanding, enabling us to discover promising
paths towards a sustainable future.
Participants include more than 200 teams of scientists from over 80 renowned
universities and institutions throughout Europe, with collaborations all over the world.
Individuals and a wide range of science organisations have also expressed their explicit
support. The project now seeks to expand its collaborations with business and industry,
with government and administrative institutions, foundations and funding organisations
to unleash the full potential of the project and create the societal and economic leverage
effect expected by the European Union.
This project is funded under FP7. More information is available at
Like to find out more?
Email BIS now at: bis@ucc.ie |
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