Possibilities for EU Research Funding

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Possibilities for EU Research Funding
CVMT Colloquium, 24 October 2003
Salvatore Livatino
Table of Contents

• FP6 - IST (FET Open)
• FP6 - SME Activities
• FP6 - Marie Curie Actions
• FP6 - Sustainable Development
• EU-DK EURYI
• Salvatores External Contacts

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FP6 / IST - Information Society Technology

• FET Open (3 years, any topic)
• deadline 31st December 2004
• submission any time (continuous)
• STREP projects, 2 stages short full
• short proposal 5 pages (answer in 6 weeks)
• full proposal (at least 2 months after answer)
• budget 60 Meuro (all FET Open)
• topic innovative, high risk, proof-of-concept,
  long term, etc.

• FET Pro-active 2004 (to be launched in 2004)
• Life-like perception and Cognition Systems
• Global Computing
• ...

See also NEST Projects http//www.cordis.lu/nest
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FP6 / SME (Small Medium Enterprises)

• CRAFT Co-operative Research Actions (2 years,
  any topic)
• deadline 27 November 2003
• min. 3 SMEs from EUACC
• min. 2 RTD performers (SMEs, Industries,
  Universities, Research Org.)
• activities research innovation-related
  activity, consortium management
• budget 60 MEuro (all), 0.5 - 2 Meuro (per
  project)
• RTD performers now partners (in fp6), 40
  budget, 100 research costs

• SME webpages
• http//www.cordis.lu/sme/sme.htm
• http//www.cordis.lu/sme

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FP6 / Marie Curie Actions

• Host-Driven Actions (4 years, any topic,
  mobility)
• RTN (Research Training Networks)
• deadline 19 November 2003
• like our previous TMR (e.g. VIRGO, SMART)
• budget 115 Meuro (all), 0.8 - few million
  Euro (per project)
• EST (Early Stage research Training)
• deadline 11 February 2004
• providing structured training for doctoral
  studies
• budget 70 Meuro (all), 0.3 - 2.0 Meuro (per
  project)
• ToK (Transfer of Knowledge)
• deadline 19 May 2004
• develop new competencies in Less-Favored Regions
  (1) or Associated Country
• develop Industry-Academia partenerships
  (exchange of staff members)
• budget 45 Meuro (all), 0.1 - 1 Meuro (per
  project)

(1) http//www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/les
sfavouredregions.htm
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FP6 / Marie Curie Actions (cont)

• other Host-Driven Actions (4 years, any topic)
• SCF - LCF (Serious of Conferences/Training
  Courses, Large Conferences)
• deadline 20 April 2004
• for early-stage and experienced researchers (max
  10 years)
• budget 10 Meuro (all), 0.25 - 1 Meuro (SCF), 50
  Keuro (LCF) (per project)

• Individual-Driven Actions (any topic, mobility,
  deadline Feb.2004)
• Intra-European (experienced/post-doc, 2/(1)
  years - 2 in, 1 ret)
• Outgoing International (experienced/post-doc, 3
  years - 2 out, 1 ret)
• Incoming International (experienced, 3rd
  contries, 2(1) years - 2 in, 1 ret)
• Reintegration International (2 years in, been 5
  years out)

• Excellence Promotion Recognition (3-4 years,
  mobility)
• EX-Teams (team leader team), EX-Chairs
  (chairs), EX-Awards

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FP6 / Sustainable Develop. Global Change

• Sustainable Surface Transport
• call 2004
• Domain 4.12 Developing (robotics) technology
  on the prediction of natural conditions affecting
  transport routes (including sea and weather
  conditions) (VERA officer Sgarbi)

EU / DK - EURYI

• EURYI (European Young Investigators Awards) (2)
• deadline 15 December 2004
• by EU network ESF and EuroHORCS (includes Danish
  Research Council)
• 25 awards for 5 years, up to 1.25 Meuro, winners
  create their own team
• postdoctoral experience between 2 and 10 years

(2) http//www.forsk.dk/sjvf/opslag/index.htm
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Salvatores External Contacts (for collaboration)

• University of Catania, Italy
• Dept. Electronic Eng., Prof. G. Muscato,
  Robotics Vision,
• interest camera applications on robots
  (agriculture, volcano, climbing)
• ex. of collaboration ideas HDR camera for 3D
  reconstruction of lava terrains, plants
• Dept. Computer Science, Prof. G. Gallo, Data
  Visualization
• interest Data mining, Geographic Information
  Systems (GIS), Computer Graphics
• SOCRATES EU Program (already active between CS
  dept. at AAU and at UNICT)

• University of Edinburgh
• Division of Informatics, (Machine Vision Unit),
  Prof. R. Fisher
• 3D Reconstruction (Vision and VisionLaser, eg.
  The CAMERA project, etc.)
• Cognitive Vision (foveated feature extraction,
  attention, recognition)

• University of Auckland (Robot Vision, Panoramic
  image processing)
• Universities in Poland (as partner in EU
  project, etc.)
• EU commission strongly support partnerships with
  institutions from newly associated eastern
  countries (I am interested in searching for
  collaboration in Poland)