FuturICT FET Flagship Information Event

Please come along on: 11am to 1pm on May 11th 2011. CASL Seminar Room, UCD CASL, 8 Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4, to hear more about the project from the project partners.

The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify 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.

The ultimate goal of the FuturICT flagship project 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 probably 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.

The project believes that integrating ICT, Complexity Science and the Social Sciences will create a paradigm shift, facilitating a symbiotic co-evolution of ICT and society. Data from our complex globe- spanning ICT system will be leveraged to develop models of techno-socio-economic systems. In turn, insights from these models will inform the development of a new generation of socially adaptive, self- organised ICT systems.

FuturICT as a whole will act as a Knowledge Accelerator, turning massive data into knowledge and technological progress. In this way, FuturICT will create the scientific methods and ICT platforms needed to address planetary-scale challenges and opportunities in the 21st century. Specifically, FuturICT will build a sophisticated simulation, visualisation and participation platform, called the Living Earth Simulator. This platform will power Crisis Observatories, to detect and mitigate crises, and Participatory Platforms, to support the decision-making of policy-makers, business people and citizens, and to facilitate a better social, economic and political participation.

Please circulate and post attached in your departments. Please confirm your attendance via email to jb.mccarthy@ucc.ie

UCD Contact:-
Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler Professor of Technology and Innovation Management UCD Innovation Research Unit (IRU)
Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory CASL University College Dublin 8 Belfield Office Park Beaver Row
Clonskeagh Dublin 4 Ireland
Phone: +353 1 716 5367 Fax: +353 1 716 5709 http://casl.ucd.ie/iru/ petra.ahrweiler@ucd.ie

UCC Contact:-
JB McCarthy Development Director Financial Services Innovation Centre, O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Email: Jb.mccarthy@fsic.ucc.ie Web: www.fs-innovation.org Tel: (353) 21 4205152 Mob:(353) 86 1722255
Fax: (353) 21 4903819

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FuturICT FET Flagship Information Event

Please come along on: 11am to 1pm on May 11th 2011. CASL Seminar Room, UCD CASL, 8 Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4, to hear more about the project from the project partners.