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Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities. COGAIN Office COGAIN Camp 30.05. - 03.06.2005, Copenhagen, Denmark. Agenda. 16:15 Introduction to funding opportunities (COGAIN Office) 16:45 Group work In parallel: Finance Clinic (Hannele Auffermann) 17:30 General discussion / Groups present their ideas

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Funding Opportunities

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  1. Funding Opportunities COGAIN Office COGAIN Camp30.05. - 03.06.2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

  2. Agenda • 16:15 Introduction to funding opportunities (COGAIN Office) • 16:45 Group work In parallel: Finance Clinic (Hannele Auffermann) • 17:30 General discussion / Groups present their ideas • 18:00 The end

  3. Motivation • Not much money for research in a Network of Excellence • Deliverables require hard work • True integration arises from personal contacts, people working together

  4. Funding Opportunities – Examples • EC Funded • IST Call 5 • Marie Curie • Erasmus Mundus • The European Science Foundation (ESF) • EUROCORES (EUROpean Science Foundation COllaborative RESearch) • European Research Council (ERC) • Nordic Council of Ministers • Nordiskt utvecklingscenter för handikapphjälpmedel (NUH) • NordForsk • Bilateral • National calls

  5. EU Slang • IST: Information Society Technologies • FP: Framework Programme • FET: Future and Emerging Technologies • STREP: Specific Targeted Research Project • Typically 5-8 partners, 2-3 year goals, SME’s involved • IP: Integrated Project • Typically 3-5 year goals but no maximum time limit, SME’s involved • CA: Coordination Action • SSA: Specific Support Action • MS: Member States of the EU • AS: Associated States • ACC: Associated Candidate Countries • SME: Small and Medium sized Enterprises

  6. IST Call 5, FP62-stage STREPs in FET * • Instruments: STREP, CA, SSA • CA & SSA submitted directly, deadline short STREPs 20.9.2005 (FET *) • STREPs in two stages • 1st stage STREPs • Deadlines: 20.9.2005 (FET *) • Short proposal with a technical description, max. 5 pages • 2nd stage STREPs • STREPs that passed the 1st stage are invited to submit full proposals • Specific cut-off date, at least 2 months • Final cut-off date: 14 February 2006 http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=55 * Note: Here was a mistake, only FET has 2–stage STREPs (not eInclusion nor Multimodal interfaces)!

  7. 2.5.7 Multimodal interfaces • Objectives • To develop natural and easy to use interfaces that communicate intelligently via several modalities or with multilingual capabilities. • Focus • Natural interaction between humans and the physical or virtual environment (IP, STREP) • Multilingual communication systems (IP, STREP) • Deadline: 21 September 2005 • Funding: 54 M€ (60/40 split between IPs/STREPs) http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=208

  8. 2.5.11 eInclusion • Objectives • Mainstreaming accessibility in consumer goods and services • Next generation assistive systems that empower people with (in particular cognitive) disabilities and aging citizens… • Focus • Experience and Application Research (IP) • Development of innovative solutions for persons with cognitive disabilities (STREP) • Federating the fragmented assistive technology industry… (AC) • …structuring the co-operation among centres for accessibility… (AC) • Development and constitution of … tech. platforms to … ageing population… (SSA) • Deadline: 21 September 2005 • Funding: 29 M€ (50/50 split between IPs/STREPs, ACs, SSAs) http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=208

  9. Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) • FET Open Scheme • Highly innovative new ideas – open to widest possible spectrum of research opportunities • Project proposals not addressed by any other IST call • Deadline: 20.9.2005 (short STREP, full STREP: 14.2.2006) • Instruments: STREP, CA, SSA • Funding: Total 60 M€ (evenly spread among 4 cut-off dates) http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=55

  10. Marie Curie • Conferences and Training Courses • Supports (funding) organizing conferences and training courses • organisational costs, participation of researchers • Next call to open 18 January 2006, with deadline on 17 May 2007 • Funding for Individual researchers • Mobility grants for European fellowships, International fellowships • Next deadlines 18 Jan 2006 and 15 Feb 2006 • Promoting Excellence • Excellence grants for research teams, Excellence awards for individuals • Deadline 15 Feb 2006 • European Reintegration Grants • For researchers returning home • Several upcoming deadlines: 19 Oct 2005, 19 Jan 2006, 19 April 2006, 19 July 2006 http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/indexhtm_en.html

  11. Erasmus Mundus • Co-operation and mobility programme for education • Actions • Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses • Integrated courses, with at least 3 different EU universities & countries • Erasmus Mundus scholarships • For third-country graduate students and scholars • Partnerships (with third-country higher education institutions) • Enhancing attractiveness • Supports activities that improve profile, visibility & accessibility  Funding non-European participants might have some impact • This years specific calls closed, new calls published annually http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/index_en.html

  12. Researcher’s Mobility Portal http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm

  13. Misc. EC calls • Co-operative research projects [FP6-2004-SME-COOP] • For SMEs to support research within SMEs (with research institutions) • Min. 3 SMEs • 14 September 2005 • http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=189%20# • EC proposal deadlines by category: http://www.eucenter.org/deadlines.php

  14. European Science Foundation (ESF)EUROCORES themes • Opportunity to affect the future project proposal themes! • Themes are ideas for new EUROCORES Programmes • Innovative, sound research themes(not projects) • Theme should be attractive to 70-200 European researchers • Fields: Physical & engineering sciences, Medical, Social, … • Funding for the actual research projects comes from national funding organisations (research councils), who are members of ESF • Annual theme proposals • Next deadlines 15 June 2005, 15 June 2006 • Selected themes are developed into programmes • ECRP Call for project proposals: May 2006 • Funding starts: March-May 2007 (typically for 3-4 years, tot. 5-12 M€ programme budget) http://www.esf.org/

  15. European Research Council (ERC) • Supports European basic research • New body, still under development  no open calls yet • ERC Identification Committee has been formed to identify possible members of ERC Scientific Governing Council • In the future, ERC will • “provide funding to research projects of individual teams, selected on the basis of scientific excellence, through international peer review” http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/basic_research/index_en.html

  16. Nordiskt utvecklingscenter för handikapphjälpmedel(NUH) • The Nordic Development Centre for Rehabilitation Technology • Themes for 2005-2007 • User involvement in product development and service provision • Communication • Children and disabilities • The elderly, disability and the home • Funds max. 50% of the total budget • Awards tot. 200 000 € to Nordic projects and seminars every year • 1-3 year projects • No deadline for proposals • Decisions are made in the following steering board meeting(s) http://www.nuh.fi/

  17. NordForsk • Nordic Research Board, established 1 January 2005 • NorFA is now part of NordForsk • Funds Nordic co-operation within research and research education 1. Institutional grants (planning, mobility, networks, courses, …) 2. Personal grants (mobility, e.g. visiting professors) • Proposal should include at least 3 Nordic countries • Many activities open also to countries in the Nordic region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and North-Western Russia) http://www.nordforsk.org/

  18. Bilateral collaboration • Collaboration between two countries • E.g. in Japan National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) • Collaboration with: UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland, … • Sponsors international workshops, seminars, & researchers giving presentation in international conferences etc.… http://www.nistep.go.jp/

  19. National calls • Everyone can apply for funding from national research councils • E.g. in Finland • The Academy of Finland • Tekes – National Technology Agency of Finland

  20. Group work • Brainstorming for new project ideas • Preferably supporting COGAIN goals  • Try to be as concrete as possible (with examples) • Collect ideas • Select a secretary who writes down ideas • Groups present the ideas to everybody

  21. Groups • Groups working for ideas possible for, for instance: • Giving a voice to our user (creating a synthesized version of the user’s own voice and integrating it with eye typing) (Multimodal interaction) • Gaze control for people with cognitive disabilities (eInclusion) • Eyes and games (FET?) • Eye tracker development (3D tracker, FET?) • Innovations for gaze control (FET) • Nordic collaboration (NUH & NordForsk) • WP8: joint education (Marie Curie & Erasmus Mundus) • Ideas for major research themes (EUROSCORES themes) • General brainstorming – ideas for future calls • Ideas for potential joint student projects (ideas for mobility grants) • Past proposal re-preparation • Other specific ideas? In parallel: Finance Clinic – consultation in COGAIN budget issues

  22. To Be Continued… • Slides & funding related links available on COGAIN Portal • Please SENDinfo about COGAIN related funding opportunities to be distributed on COGAIN web & mailing lists! • Discussion forum for funding ideas and opportunities

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