Funding Opportunities COGAIN Office COGAIN Camp , 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  18:00 The end

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

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

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

IST Call 5, FP6 2-stage STREPs in FET *  Instruments: STREP, CA, SSA CA & SSA submitted directly, deadline short STREPs ( FET * ) STREPs in two stages  1 st stage STREPs Deadlines: ( FET * ) Short proposal with a technical description, max. 5 pages  2 nd stage STREPs STREPs that passed the 1 st stage are invited to submit full proposals Specific cut-off date, at least 2 months Final cut-off date: 14 February * Note: Here was a mistake, only FET has 2–stage STREPs (not eInclusion nor Multimodal interfaces)!

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)

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)

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: (short STREP, full STREP: )  Instruments: STREP, CA, SSA  Funding: Total 60 M€ (evenly spread among 4 cut-off dates)

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

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

Researcher’s Mobility Portal

Misc. EC calls  Co-operative research projects [FP SME-COOP] For SMEs to support research within SMEs (with research institutions) Min. 3 SMEs 14 September  EC proposal deadlines by category:

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 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 M€ programme budget)

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”

Nordiskt utvecklingscenter för handikapphjälpmedel (NUH)  The Nordic Development Centre for Rehabilitation Technology  Themes for 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 € 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)

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)

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.…

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

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

Groups  Groups working for ideas possible for, for instance: 1.Giving a voice to our user (creating a synthesized version of the user’s own voice and integrating it with eye typing) (Multimodal interaction) 2.Gaze control for people with cognitive disabilities (eInclusion) 3.Eyes and games (FET?) 4.Eye tracker development (3D tracker, FET?) 5.Innovations for gaze control (FET) 6.Nordic collaboration (NUH & NordForsk) 7.WP8: joint education (Marie Curie & Erasmus Mundus) 8.Ideas for major research themes (EUROSCORES themes) 9.General brainstorming – ideas for future calls 10.Ideas for potential joint student projects (ideas for mobility grants) 11.Past proposal re-preparation 12.Other specific ideas? In parallel: Finance Clinic – consultation in COGAIN budget issues

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