The goal of e-2012 is to stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs, and help open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world.

- eInfrastructures & Smart Grid

- Future Internet & Smart Cities

- eHealth - Services to Citizens

- eGovernment, eParticipation & eDemocracy

- eInclusion

- Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage

- Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills

- Intelligent Content and Semantics

- Living Labs

- Cloud Computing

- ICT for Networked Enterprise & RFID

- Networked, Smart and Virtual Organisations

- High Performance Computing Applications

- Mobile Applications

- Security and Identity Management

- Sustainable Environment

- i2020 and ICT take-up by SMEs

- Digital Content & Digital Rights Management - issues, applications & technologies

- eVoting, eParticipation

- eInclusion and eAccessibility

- eTourism

- Future Emerging Technologies

- Knowledge management and technologies

- Interoperability and Standardisation

- Open Source Technologies and Applications

- Best Practice Models - Lessons learnt

- eAdoption - national and sectoral case studies and policy issues

- Future Workplace Design

- Identity Management and Authentication

- Innovation and Technology Transfer

- Legal and Regulatory Challenges for ICT

- Measuring and Benchmarking

- Multimodal Working Environments