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BRICKS FOCUS. Annejet P. Meijler Director Physical Science Council NWO Kick-Off Meeting 15 april 2004. BRICKS a Special Project. Fundamental Research Cooperation between universities, NWO-council and NWO-institute Reinforcement of the NOAG-i FOCUS competition.
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BRICKS FOCUS Annejet P. Meijler Director Physical Science Council NWO Kick-Off Meeting 15 april 2004
BRICKS a Special Project Fundamental Research Cooperation between universities, NWO-council and NWO-institute Reinforcement of the NOAG-i FOCUS competition
The Physical Science Council of NWO • Second money flow • Policy and coordination • Quality, talent, clusters, society and industry • M€ 25/ year: Mathematics Astronomy Computer Science Multidisciplinary themes
Strategy Physical Science Council I Strengthening Disciplines Instruments • Projects • Talent • Programmes • Investments • Clusters Attractive for Talent Stimulating Multidisciplines
Strategy Physical Science Council II • Disciplinary (NOAG-i) • Algorithms and Formal Methods (AFM) • Software Engineering (SE) • Embedded Systems (ES) • Intelligent Systems (IS) • MultiMedia (MM) • Modelling Simulation and Visualisation (MSV) • Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) • Multidisciplinary (E-science) • science enhanced/enriched by computer science/ICT Cultural Heritage Life Sciences
RESULTS I 1999-2003Positions in Computer Science financed by the Physical Science Council(Open Competition + Innovational incentives + Programmes) SION
Results II 1999–2003 Programmes (excl. matching, incl. overhead) JACQUARD M€ 8,1 (M€ 7.2 extern) PROGRESS 1 + 2 M€ 6,0 + 5,4 (M€ 5.8 + 4.9 extern) ToKeN2000 M€ 5,4 (M€ 4.5 extern) • Participation in: • Biomolecular Informatics • Cognition • Computational Science • Computational Life Sciences • Climate variability • MEERVOUD • Molecule to Cel • Networks • Language- and Speech technology/IMIX/BaTaVo
BRICKS Budget M€ 12 Bsik grant M€ 4.6 FOCUS Total M€ 24 M€ 3 NWO matching M€ 9 Matching Universities
BRICKS- FOCUS FOCUS Targets FOCUS Subjects • New Partners • Contingency • `Embedding´/ Critical mass • Quality/Competition • MSV (Modelling, Simulation and Visualization) • PDC (Parallel and Distributed Computing) • IS (Intelligent Systems) • AFM (Algorithms and Formal Methods)
The Physical Sciences strategy for the future of Computer Science LOFAR Technology Astronomy super computing / clusters & grids Mathematics Computer Science E-GOVERNMENT Social Sciences CATCH Humanities Life Sciences Medical Sciences BMI