1 / 9

ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure

ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure. Professor Xiaofang Zhou Research Director, ARC Research Network EII University of Queensland www.eii.edu.au. Outline. EII Activities: Goals Categories EII Funding Strategies 2004/05 Report 2006 Planning. EII Activities.

elle
Download Presentation

ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ARC Research Network inEnterprise Information Infrastructure Professor Xiaofang Zhou Research Director, ARC Research Network EII University of Queensland www.eii.edu.au

  2. Outline • EII Activities: • Goals • Categories • EII Funding Strategies • 2004/05 Report • 2006 Planning

  3. EII Activities • Goal • Opportunities, quality and impact, through networking • Activities categories • Networking • An EII web portal (internal and external), news letters, mailing lists • AGM, steering/advisory committee meetings • Research exchanges • Conferences and workshops • Opportunities • For our community, and for ECRs • Task forces, industry links, multidisciplinary links • Facilitating real collaboration, and working towards a 3-5 years vision • Impact • International collaborations, industry links, user group links • More needs to be done… • Quality • Spring schools, internships, research exchanges, EII seminars • Visibility for outstanding achievements • Development of quality indicators • Activity levels • EII (core and expanded), city, program, and application domain

  4. More about EII Activities • In addition to meetings, workshops, conferences • Problem-driven research, with focused vertical application domains • Synergy task forces (scopes, benchmarks, test beds) • Measurable objectives • High quality research output • Greater impact of research results • Joint projects, attracting new funding • Eventually, creation of an Australia Centre of Excellence

  5. EII Funding Strategies • EII is not a mini-funding scheme • EII is a seed grant to help all of us to get to the future we want to be • Identify major opportunities • Lobby the decision makers • Establish track record, critical mass and collaboration • ARC vs Institutional funding • EII activities, and institutional activities

  6. Activities 2004/05 • 25 August: funding announced • Nov: Kath Williamson appointed • Nov: 1st steering committee meeting • Nov: contract negotiation started • Dec, May and August: links with MSRA • Jan: funding received • March: news letters • April: taskforce proposals • 10 proposals • 3 short-listed, funding to start after this AGM • April and July: e-water workshop • Others • EII website, EII seminars (Brisbane and Sydney), brining major international conferences • 10-15 October: EII Spring School (for PhD students and others) • Others: • MSRA internships; finalizing contracts; a new Web portal; EII snapshot update; preparing for annual report.

  7. E-Water Workshop • ARC and NSFC • First meeting: 1 April 2005, near Shanghai • First workshop: 4-5 July 2005, Gold Coast • Theme: • ICT and Whole-of-Water-Cycle approach to water resources management • Attendees: • Eva Abal, Ian Atkinson, Rao Kotagiri, Xuemin Lin, Stuart Minchin, Maria Orlowska, Andy Steven, Ah Chung Tsoi, Yanchun Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou • Qingcheng He, Minglu Li, Guangcai Wang, Lei Wang, Dongguang Wen, Jichun Wu, Feng Xu, Qingping Zhu, Xiaofeng Zhou • Outcome • An established network • A project proposal (3 years, 1,5M) • Next Step • NSFC visit to ARC on 16 August • Ministerial level interests • Several funding opportunities • Second workshop: 16-18 Jan 2006, Harbin

  8. Activities 2006 • Annual activities • Feb: Steering committee meeting • July: AGM (and Steering committee meeting, Advisory board meeting) - Melbourne • October: Springer school - Sydney • Major initiatives • Call for proposals in April (taskforces?) • Other activities • A new vertical workshop • …

  9. Thank you http://www.eii.edu.au

More Related