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This paper provides the joint position of five European Technology Platforms (ETPs) from the ICT domain. They have teamed up in a cross-ETP (xETP) endeavour to provide common observations and recommendations on Horizon 2020, the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for the period 2014 – 2020.

The ETPs of this endeavour provide within their specific area an industry-lead framework for stakeholders to define research priorities and action plans on a number of technological areas.

The European ICT Components and Systems Industry, including knowledge institutes, share a common Mission,

Vision and Strategy at the highest level of their Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda’s. Based on a very wide set of technologies they will together enable the provision of breakthrough products and services.

Strong international competition calls for rapid product change, higher quality, lower cost and shorter time to markets. Smaller and smarter by transdisciplinarity will be the key issue in the future, innovative systems integration will pose a major challenge. The evolution of the critical dimension of technologies into the nanometer scale together with the exploitation of completely new phenomena at the atomic and molecular levels has opened opportunities for groundbreaking solutions to old and new problems in bioengineering, environment, human-machine interface, etc.