Consortium as a whole. The e-ScienceTalk consortium consists of five partners, all with extensive experience in communicating grid technology though traditional and new media. CERN, QMUL and APO have established a proven track record during GridTalk of delivering successful communications projects aimed at e-ScienceTalk’s target audiences, and will draw on staff with demonstrated skills in these areas. The first year reviewers stated that “The GridTalk project has made excellent progress, even exceeding expections.” E-ScienceTalk will build upon this successful work by these partners in GridTalk, bringing onboard the technical expertise of Imperial College, who also have a strong record in grid dissemination through the e-Science Activity in the High Energy Physics Group. E-ScienceTalk will also bring the project management of the project onboard from XXX.xx, from the CAO/Dissemination Manager, which will allow the project to benefit from close collaboration with the XXX.xx dissemination team, the EGI network of NGIs and EGI-InSPIRE collaborating projects, as well as EGI’s membership of the European E-Infrastructures Forum. As a collaboration between an international body (CERN), a Dutch foundation (XXX.xx), two universities (QMUL and Imperial College) and a small-medium sized enterprise (APO), the consortium represents three key facets of Europe’s S&T community. The partners are based in three EU member states (FR, The Netherlands and UK) and one Associated Country (CH). The consortium members provide complementary areas of expertise, which are reflected in the work packages for which they are responsible: • XXX.xx has the main objective of coordinating pan-European distributed computing activity within Europe on behalf of its stakeholders, NGIs, EIROs, and others. It will be independent of any particular institute or application community and will participate in a wide range of collaborations within Europe and beyond. • QMUL is responsible for dissemination for GridPP, the UK’s particle physics grid. In this role it has developed an award-winning website, overseen the production of successful demonstrations, produced widely-reported press releases and held stands at many grid and computing events. In the policy area, QMUL has produced the series of GridBriefings published during GridTalk, a guide to GridPP for UK policy makers and provided speakers to policy conferences and in Parliament. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx has particular experience in science policy, having worked in the European...
Consortium as a whole. The proposed NEXPReS programme will bundle expertise in radio astronomy and several ICT areas: networking, storage and computing. Building up this formal interdisciplinary structure is probably the most important aspect of the entire program. There already exist a number of structures (including ones that are EC supported) that have expertise in radio-astronomical instruments, focused on existing or future research infrastructures, but the collaboration in (N)EXPReS is unique in the sense that it enforces collaboration between the two domains. We have learned from the past that this formal structure is essential for keeping a focus on the development work and getting support from organizations outside the funded collaboration. The NEXPReS partners will bring together essential crafts for carrying out the work described in the Joint Research and Service Activities. In constructing this distribution of work packages we have had our focus solely on bringing the appropriate talents together. Note that a few organizations contribute to the programme without expecting return from the EC funds. These partners are included in order that their effort contributes formally to the project and to make sure they are represented in the management structure. Furthermore, we expect other partners from the radio astronomy community and NRENs to participate in the network activities. In the past the existence of an EC project in this area has been a catalyst for a large number of such interactions While the project primarily builds on the existing collaborations in traditional VLBI, there is an increasing role for other radio astronomy facilities with a large ICT component. Notably the International LOFAR Telescope (or e- LOFAR) that is currently being commissioned across several European countries, is encountering a number of similar technological issues for its future operations. The facilities already share the same engineering basis and have a largely overlapping user community. Indeed, in some of the forums common problems and common solutions have been discussed in the past. In NEXPReS these ties will only be stronger when operational matters will also start to share the same connectivity infrastructure. This common footing will be an asset for Europe’s role in the SKA. In this project there is a central role for JIVE in managing and implementing most of the Service Activities. This may seem lopsided, but it is in fact very natural. As a joint European facility for VLB...
Consortium as a whole. The I-KAM2EU consortium is made up of all the 7 partners of SME2EU consortium covering the three Italian regions Marche, Tuscany and Umbria: • in Marche: o Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Ascoli Xxxxxx o Compagnia delle Opere Pesaro Urbino • in Tuscany: o PromoFirenze Azienda Xxxxxxxx xxxxx Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Firenze o Confindustria Toscana o Eurosportello Confesercenti • in Umbria: o Centro Estero Umbria o Società regionale per lo sviluppo economico dell’Umbria - Sviluppumbria spa The specific objective of SME2EU project (XXXXX Call for proposals COS-WP2014-2-1) starting on 1 January 2015, is for Enterprise Europe Network services, to provide advice, support and information activities to increase the competitiveness and innovation capacities of European SMEs. All the I-KAM2EU and SME2EU partners also participated in CINEMA project, the Central Italy consortium for the Enterprise Europe Network active until the end of 2014.
Consortium as a whole. The MOLTO Consortium has four partners, of which three are academic and one industrial. The consortium was built with a great care to match the vision of MOLTO and provide the competences needed without too much overlap. The result of the process is a consortium that also covers a representative set of five different countries, diverging both geographically as in terms of language families: Xxxxx-Ugric, Germanic, Romance, and Slavic. An essential question in a multilingual project like MOLTO is to find a sufficient basis of developers and testers for the different languages. Here, the consortium itself comes a long way towards the goal: its key persons alone have proficiency in at least ten languages. More languages are available in the immediate vicinity: in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the coordinating site UGOT alone, 30 nationalities are represented. The main competences and responsibilities of each partner can be summarized as follows: UGOT, University of Gothenburg, Coordinator. UGOT has a leading competence in multilingual grammar formalisms and grammar resources, and the group coordinates the collaborative open- source development of GF. In MOLTO, UGOT is responsible for the design and implementation of grammar development tools (WP2) and the availability of linguistic resources. UGOT also provides technical help in integrating GF with the translation tools (WP3), the Knowledge Engineering (WP4), and statistical methods (WP5). Moreover, UGOT has the leading role in the Cultural Heritage case study, where it builds on its previous competence on the domain, as well as collaboration with Gothenburg City Museum. In WP7, UGOT will develop the grammars needed in the hybrid model. As Coordinator of MOLTO, UGOT has the main responsibility for management (WP1) and dissemination (WP10). UHEL, University of Helsinki. XXXX has competence in human translator training and translation tools, as well as in grammar development and ontologies. UHEL is therefore the main responsible partner for translator’s tools (WP3) and requirements and evaluation (WP9). The group has both research and practical experience with CAT and MT tools (taught Trados tools since 1995), including involvement in national R&D projects where CAT tools have been or are developed (MLIS Lingmachine, Masterin TM/MT system, Multilingual Workbench). The group was also involved in the development of mathematical GF grammars for the WebALT project. UPC, Universitat Politecnic...
Consortium as a whole. The composition of this consortium has been carefully selected in order to include all the expertises in IHD and especially cardiac imaging in order to faster accomplish of the main objectives of the proposed project. All groups participating in the consortium have the expertise and facilities to perform the proposed experiments. Partners of the consortium have been selected for their following attributes: recognized world leading experts in their fields; facilities and technologies that allow performing high quality cardiac imaging; complementary to each other regarding the aims of the project; excellent scientific record; highly motivated to solve the challenges that the EVINCI-study project poses; demonstrated ability to successfully carry out international multi-centre projects. The consortium is composed by top level European laboratories which are leaders in the field of cardiovascular diseases and key in the forefront research on the impact of combined “anatomo- functional” non invasive cardiac imaging especially for detection and characterization of IHD. They all use state-of-art technologies to address the scientific goals of the project. A relevant part of the EVINCI-study will be dedicated to the development, in cooperation with the industry, of an advanced informatics’ platform able to synthetically present to the end-user (patients, physicians, etc.) the integrated cardiological diagnostic profile of the individual patient, as resulting from clinical-biomarkers and multi-imaging assessment, and to help in the clinical decision making process. The objectives of the EVINCI-study could be reached only if a large cohort of patients (500 to 700) will be enrolled and submitted to a standardized clinical, laboratory and multimodality imaging work-up. Due to the complexity and the costs of the project only a multicentre European study will have the potential of addressing these objectives. The Consortium includes 21 active partners, of these 13 are international Centres which represent leading European sites for cardiovascular imaging and include in particular the following centres: P1-CNR; P2-U.Turku, P3-UZH, P4-LUMC and P18-KRITUM. These are units that operate a variety of tomographic imaging systems such as SPECT, SPECT/CT, PET, PET/CT, MRI and ECHO as well as invasive imaging techniques. P6-IR-HSCSP has expertise on nuclear medicine and molecular imaging of cardiovascular diseases mainly using SPECT and PET. P7- NIC is the reference ce...
Consortium as a whole. The first and foremost criterion when assembling the OPPORTUNITY consortium has been to bring together partners that cover the expertise needed to conduct the project research agenda and who are internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields. Second we made sure that there is a sufficient overlap between the partners’ competencies to provide a sufficient degree of redundancy and ensure smooth cooperation and communication. As explained in detail below we have sensing and signal processing part of the context recognition chain primarily covered by UP, machine learning and classification by EPFL, unsupervised adaptation by ETHZ and cooperation, coordination and control in complex sensor networks and embedded systems by JKU. However, as an example, ETH and JKU also have know how in sensing and signal processing, UP and ETH have strong applied pattern recognition credentials, and EPFL has a lot of work in unsupervised, adaptive systems to show. General topics such as Ambient Intelligence, Wearable Computing, Embedded Systems and Self-Organization in general are each covered by at least 3 of the 4 partners.
Consortium as a whole. The SkAT-VG consortium is at the same time small enough to allow for flexibility and adaptation, and based on a solid experience that covers the scientific domains necessary for the success of the project. It includes four participants from different disciplines all having an important experience in sound and interaction de- sign, by working in close relations with industry professionals and sound designers, providing tools and methodologies for designers, and being involved in several projects related to sound and interaction design. This expertise ensures the relevance of the SkAT-VG objectives for the community of designers. Particu- larly, the reference framework provided by WP7, and the imitation-driven sound synthesis tools provided by WP6 will benefit from such kind of expertise. Reaching the objectives of SkAT-VG also requires a strong scientific background, provided by the partners. One the one hand, IUAV has a strong experience in sound synthesis, and particularly in the conception and development of algorithms based on the physics of me- chanical sources. On the other hand, the collaboration between KTH and IRCAM will allow to study the phenomenon of imitations from two perspectives: from the perspective of the phonetic production of imita- tions (KTH), and from the perspective of the perception of imitations (IRCAM). This collaboration between IRCAM and KTH will therefore provide a unique approach to this phenomenon in WP3 and WP4. KTH has additional experience in gesture analysis and is currently building a Performance and Multimodal Inter- action Lab which will include a motion-capture system that will be operational for the SkAT-VG project. This facility will strengthen collaboration between KTH and IRCAM, especially through short-term sci- entific missions. The link between the basic study of imitations of sounds, and the final development of the sketching tools will be made in WP5: The results of WP3 and WP4 will feed the system of automatic recognition of imitations developed in WP5. The expertise of the IMTR and the A/S group at IRCAM in machine learning and automatic classification will ensure the success of this work package. The system will be used for the tools developed in WP6 and WP7, where the role of industrial partner GENESIS (SME) will be exploited. The relationship among the SkAT-VG participants and their best cooperation for the internal operation of the consortium will be regulated by a Consortium Agreement, whose terms shal...
Consortium as a whole. The main aim of the EQUAL4EUROPE consortium is to contribute to increased gender equality in the European Research Area (ERA). Specifically, the consortium wants to develop Gender Equality plans which are suitable for Research Performing Institutions (RPI) which have a clear focus on arts, humanities, medicine, social sciences, business and law (AHMSSBL). The composition of the consortium makes it possible to reach this aim through different type of activities. The EQUAL4EUROPE project brings together six acclaimed AHMSSBL business school and universities as well as two International Association of universities (one as full partner, i.e. EFMD and one as associate partner, CEEMAN) and one independent consultancy firm that have long- standing working relationships. Next to this the partners have formulated a clear approach which includes a comprehensive and clear work program which will enable them to reach their goals. The vision and mission of the EQUAL4EUROPE project is understood and supported by all the consortium partners.
Consortium as a whole. All partners have expertise relevant to the project. To summarize: MTA SZTAKI Experience with Desktop and Service Grids & coordination of European projects. Useful related new projects: SCI-BUS, where 27 Grid user communities to be supported for 3 years. AlmereGrid First City desktop grid in the world. Good connection to local media channels. Dissemination expertise in several European projects. Green Desktop Grid expertise International Desktop Grid Federation Is the organisation supported by IDGF-SP. Involvement of IDGF in IDGF-SP assures good collaboration and swift take-up of the project results University of Westminster Experience with porting and supporting applications for Desktop Grids and integrated systems. Desktop grid operations at campus level. University of Leiden • Expertise in operating a large Desktop Grid • Experience with addressing kids with volunteer computing Charity Engine Brings aspecial way of involving citizens into the project Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris • was involved in green studies on volunteer computing. Expertise in how to address mass markets. Some of IDGF-SP partners are from the EDGeS/EDGI/DEGISCO consortia (including MTA SZTAKI, AlmereGrid, and UoW) which have already been involved in the application/infrastructure related activities. However, the main goal of this project is to broaden the exploitation of the infrastructure in several ways, that is why the partners have been selected having expertise in several important additional areas that are complementary to each other. In the next table we provide a summary of the main competences needed in the project, and how partners fill those in. Table 6: Competences provided as a consortium Competence needed Partners Comments Operating Desktop Grids MTA SZTAKI has experience in operating SZTAKI Desktop Grid, AlmereGrid runs a city Grid, UoW has local desktop Grid, LU operates a large Desktop Grid, Charity Engine has started its beta production. There is extensive experience with at least four types of Desktop Grid: campus-wide (local), city-wide, large-scale volunteer, special business-model oriented. Operating connections to other e-Infrastructures (including services Grids and Bridge technologies) MTA SZTAKI operates the main DCI Bridge between BOINC and EMI middleware (gLite/ARC/UNICORE). MTA SZTAKI is a partner of EGI. UoW operates a validated application repository that is used when jobs cross e-Infrastructure boundries There is extensive experie...
Consortium as a whole. The core consortium consists of 17 organisations from 10 countries plus 1 European Institution (Joint Research Centre, IPTS). 4 partners are coming from Russia, the target country of this project; the remaining 13 from Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Estonia, Greece, Norway and Turkey. The IPTS is located in Spain. 3 partners represent new EU Member States (Hungary and Estonia) and Accession Countries (Turkey). All partners represent either national programme owners like ministries or programme managers acting on behalf of programme owners like implementing agencies or national research organisations. The 4 Russian institutions (ZSI, KIAE, HSE, INBI) add a particular analytical expertise to the consortium as an asset to identify the appropriate Russian partners for planning and implementing the Pilot Joint Call and preparing the sustainable S&T programme. The consortium combines the necessary complementary knowledge and skills for the project. All partners have a considerable experience in planning and implementing international S&T cooperation programmes and are strongly committed to the tasks assigned to them. They are well experienced in the management and coordination of scientific research programmes or projects at national and international levels. Although the partners of the project do not cover the whole range of EU Member States involved in bilateral relations with Russia, they nevertheless represent some of the most important key players. It should be highlighted in particular that nine project partners (PT-DLR, CNRS, ZSI, AKA, RCN, TUBITAK, KIAE, HSE, ICISTE) are also be part of the consortium of the Inco-Net EECA and/or the BILAT-RUS project, which is an asset for building the bridge between the different projects and raise the full potential of the expected synergies. A written consortium agreement will be drawn up to reinforce the mutual commitment to the project. The agreement will be based on the European Commission’s ‘Checklist for a Consortium Agreement for FP7 projects’. The agreement will be signed by each partner at the beginning of the project. Its provisions will focus on managerial, technical, financial as well as intellectual property rights-related issues.
