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 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 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 MICROKELVIN consortium has 12 carefully selected partners whose collective exper- tise and equipment matches well the objectives of the proposal. The achievement of the objectives of the consortium in access service quality and in technology development relies on two main ele- ments; ultralow temperature refrigeration and nanofabrication. Expertise in both of these key areas is strong in the consortium. The MICROKELVIN partners are the world leaders in developing microkelvin refrigeration and thermometry for sub-mK research. Seven of the partners (#s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 12) have mi- crokelvin refrigerators and in-house experience and technology to build them. AALTO, CNRS and ULANC are among the largest low temperature laboratories in the world, and pioneers in microkel- vin refrigeration. They have developed a strong in-house technology base for building new refriger- ators. CNRS has made and patented a novel pulse-tube based dilution refrigerator, for instance. Several partners of the MICROKELVIN consortium have also considerable expertise in nanofabrication: four of the partners (#s 1, 2, 6 and 9) have access to a professional level clean room and six to well-equipped in-house clean-rooms 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 and 11). XXXXX, CNRS, SNS and DELFT are pioneers in low temperature microrefrigeration, with a long history of successful collaborations which will continue in JRA2 and JRA4. In addition to refrigeration and nanofabrication, the successful completion of MICROKEL- VIN goals demands special expertise in ultra-low temperature measuring methods. One of our main objectives is the opening of the microkelvin temperature regime for nanoscience. It requires gentle and sensitive characterization of nanosamples, e.g. temperature, with new measurement techniques. XXXX, and RHUL are pioneers in ultra-sensitive SQUID-measurement techniques, which will be further developed under their leadership in JRA4. Coulomb-blockade thermometry, invented by some of the partners at AALTO, and ideal for nanosamples, will be further developed in JRA4 by XXXXX, CNRS, PTB and BASEL. PTB will strengthen MICROKELVIN in metrology and net- work it to the metrological community. One of the objectives of MICROKELVIN is to reach out to small university research groups and companies. BASEL and UL are small but dynamic partners, each led by a single young profes- sor. Both of these professors have won the prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2007 in condensed matter physics. BlueFors is a promi...
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. More than three quarters of the consortium is already working closely and successfully together in the BalticGrid project. The consortium has been evaluated through the first BalticGrid review where it in the review report is stated about the consortium that it is “A good consortium with a complementary set of partners. A well managed project that has produced a highly motivated team with a good team spirit. Considering the position from which the project started, the consortium has made excellent progress in the first year.” The consortium is put together from leading institutions providing the different skills and capabilities needed. Partners are Universities, Research Institutes and National Research Network providers. Three new partners enter the consortium in this proposal. Two from Belarus, United Institute of Informatics Problems of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (UIIP NASB) and Research Division of Belarusian National Technical University (NICH BNTU) and one partner from Lithuania, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). The two Belarusian partners are leading scientific, computing and networking institutions in their country. UIIP is responsible for XXXXXX the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus research network. UIIP also has a large computing facility compute resources comprising more 700 CPUs. NICH BNTU is a strong independent research organisation that contributes both applications and skill in information technologies to the project. VGTU has contributed already in the BalticGrid project without being a formal partner, primarily by running a site but also by deep knowledge in computing technologies.
Consortium as a whole. Description of the consortium The main objective for IDEAAL is to transform GANIL into an international infrastructure. The purpose is to ensure the long-term sustainability of GANIL. Therefore, the IDEAAL consortium is coordinated by GANIL, as most of the work packages and tasks. Indeed, most studies and developments have to be initiated at GANIL or in close collaboration with GANIL teams. Both members of the GIE GANIL, i.e. CEA and CNRS, will play a major role in IDEAAL project. CEA and CNRS currently own GANIL with each having a 50% stake. These institutions will be particularly active in the negotiations with potential partners (WP2). In addition, they will advise the teams of WP3, WP4 and WP5, based on their experience with other international infrastructures located in France. IFJ PAN represents the non-French user community in the IDEAAL project. From recent studies, it is clear that Polish researchers are the most frequent users and visitors to the GANIL facility over the last several years. IFJ PAN is coordinating with GANIL the Laboratoire International Associé COPIGAL (international associated laboratory) between France and Poland for several years. In addition, IFJ PAN is leading the Instrumentation Coordination Committee of GANIL. Consequently, IFJ PAN will coordinate the task on user involvement in WP2. GSI (Germany) will act as the international expert in the management of the in-kind contributions to the SPIRAL2 project. In this aim, they will use their experience in negotiations with the international partners of the FAIR facility. Nucleopolis is a longstanding collaborator with GANIL for industrial applications at the regional level. This association is specialized in nuclear science and engineering for health and energy. Nucleopolis will coordinate the task on industrial valorisation in WP4. • Industrial/commercial involvement in the project to ensure exploitation of the results The Work Package 4 (Innovation and Industries) will be the interface between GANIL and industry within the IDEAAL project. In particular, industries will benefit from pilot access to SPIRAL2. In addition, two topics will be tested for technology transfer: beam profile monitors and production of radioisotopes. • Other countries and international organisations: All IDEAAL beneficiaries are based in the European Union.
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...
