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Dear all, <BR>
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We will be pleased to be involved on that educational meeting during the Spanish foss4g conference here in Girona. Could be a nice option and a good idea. We can start to look for places and infrastructure to allocate meetings and workshops during -or the days(s) before- the conference if everybody agree. Meanwhile, Rosa, a colleague of us here in the SIGTE, says that she could take a look to the COST program and give you some feedback later on. She also will take a look to some other options as the Coordination Actions (FP7).<BR>
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In summary, we can start to move the things here, if there isn't any other option in mind.<BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
Lluís<BR>
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El dj 20 de 10 de 2011 a les 14:45 +0300, en/na Ari Jolma va escriure:
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Folks,
Here's some information about COST actions.
Only collaboration (includes student exchange) is funded. An action
typically lasts 4 years and gets 400 kEUR.
At least 5 European countries are needed, non-European countries are ok,
perhaps they are plus.
COST actions are popular, thus highly competitive and typically only <
1/10 proposals gets funded.
The initial proposal (due well before March 30) needs to be 3 pages and
brilliantly written.
If funded, the action could start in spring 2013. An action is an open
and country points of contact will look for eligible participants. My
own eligibility is dubious since my current contract with my university
ends 2014.
The proposal needs a right scope and domain. Domain could be "Earth
System Science and Environmental Management" (I could find one GIS
related action) or "Information and Communication Technologies" (I could
not find any actions directly related to FOSS - which may tell something
or not). The proposal needs a main objective. The objective could be for
example "enhance academic relevance/use/usability of existing free and
open source geospatial (FOSS4G) software and develop methods and
workflows for increasing the impact and exploitation of FOSS4G emerging
from academia". That could perhaps have the right span.
The action needs subobjectives, scientific content (as tasks), and a
timetable. These need to link to activities and research that are
carried out with other funds.
I have expressions of interest from 3-4 parties plus me. I assume we
could get 3-4 more. Then we have good contacts to academia in U.S.,
OSGeo foundation, and FOSS4G companies. If we decide to submit, the
European partners need to contact their national COST points of contact.
I'd say it's worth a try. But I also say that due to the shortness of my
current contract I may not be the best person to be the key named person.
Best regards,
Ari
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