"The main aims of B-T-H are the following:

• identify advanced strategic areas and grand science and technology challenges related to information and communication technologies (ICT)
• discuss the scientific, commercial and social importance of these challenges
• draw basic research directions in ICT and related disciplines for addressing the above challenges
• design roadmaps for making advances in these areas with a timeframe of fifteen years
• identify new frontiers for ICT basic research, and boundaries between "pure ICT" research and other disciplines identify the potential for cross-fertilization of research in disciplines involved in these areas
• establish communication and cooperation mechanisms within and beyond Europe in order to facilitate and support the formation and functioning of a related scientific community during the project lifecycle in a field characterised by rapid and continuous evolution.

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