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The EU's Seventh Framework Programme for research and development (FP7) includes collaborative projects and networks of excellence. During their initial negotiation with the Commission, these projects may reserve a portion of their budgets for specific tasks to be carried out by a new beneficiary (or beneficiaries), who will join the consortium at a later date. These new beneficiaries will be selected from proposals submitted in response to a "competitive call".

For organisations interested in joining ongoing FP7 projects, the competitive call announcement will be published on CORDIS, with a link to the website of the project. The project consortium will publish all necessary documentation and background information on their website.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRST FI-WARE OPEN CALL FOR ADDITIONAL BENEFICIARIES

Project acronym: FI-WARE
Project grant agreement number: 285248
Project Full name: FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform

The FI-WARE project, currently active in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research and technological development, announces its First Open Call for new project partners.

FI-WARE will deliver a novel service infrastructure, building upon elements (called Generic Enablers – GEs) which offer reusable and commonly shared functions making it easier to develop Future Internet Applications in multiple sectors. This infrastructure will bring significant and quantifiable improvements in the performance, reliability and production costs linked to Internet Applications – building a true foundation for the Future Internet.

FI-WARE is the cornerstone of the Future Internet PPP (FI-PPP) program, a joint action by European Industry and the European Commission.

The FI-WARE project will develop open specifications of FI-WARE GEs, together with a reference implementation of each GE for testing. Some of these open specifications will be submitted for standardization. FI-WARE aims to draw upon results already achieved through earlier research projects. It will further develop them and integrate them.

FI-WARE’s First Open Call will allow the incorporation of new partners that can contribute or develop the following GEs for their integration as part of FI-WARE. They also need to provide support to FI-PPP use case projects validating conceptual prototypes developed on top of FI-WARE.

• Middleware for efficient and QoS/Security-aware invocation of services and exchange of messages.
• Business Models and Business Elements (BM & BE) Definition and Simulation.

IPRs will be managed according to the corresponding Grant Agreement, Consortium Agreement and Collaboration Agreement, which the new partners shall adhere to. In particular, specifications of GEs must be publicly available on the FI-WARE’s website/wiki and be royalty-free. Contributed implementations of these GEs should be licensed free of charge to projects funded under the FI-PPP program and commercialized under FRAND conditions.

Submitters to this Open Call should be legal entities that are established in an EU Member State, or FP7 Associated State.

Please note that activities to be carried out by the new partners will be partly funded, in alignment with the funding schema defined for research activities by the European Commission.

Full information, including details about expected functionality to be covered by the above mentioned GEs, is available on http://www.fi-ware.eu/open-call/

Call open: The call opened on 31 January 2012
Deadline: The call closes on 25 April 2012 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: July 2012 to April 2014
Total EC funding available for new partners: up to 2 Million Euro
Call identifier: FI-WARE: Open Call 1 for additional beneficiaries
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information: http://www.fi-ware.eu/open-call/
Email address for submissions: ict@ec.europa.eu (subject: “FI-WARE: Open Call 1 for additional beneficiaries”)
Email address for further information: fiware-opencall-help@lists.fi-ware.eu

Competitive call of the project BonFIRE (2nd open call)

Project acronym: BonFIRE
Project contract number: 257386
Project Full name: Building service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Objectives of the Call: The BonFIRE project seeks to incorporate A SET OF EXPERIMENTS TO RUN TESTS ON ITS MULTI-SITE CLOUD FACILITY and a also a CLOUD PROVIDER TO PARTICIPATE AS ADDITIONAL CLOUD SITE IN THE ‘BonFIRE MULTI-CLOUD ’ (Proof of Concept).

The BonFIRE project is designing, building and operating a multi-site cloud-based FIRE facility to support research across applications, services and systems targeting in particular but not exclusively the research community on Internet of Services.

The BonFIRE vision is to give researchers in these areas access to a distributed cloud facility which supports experimentation of their systems and applications and the evaluation of cross-cutting aspects. We expect that this will enable innovative scenarios from the services-based distributed computing research community to be tested. Additionally, we seek a Cloud Provider to become a BonFIRE site.

The call is structured in 2 topics as follows;

[Topic a)] BonFIRE has defined three different scenarios relevant for experiments targeting this open call where testing can be performed under different conditions:

1. Extended cloud scenario: It consists of using four BonFIRE computing sites interconnected through today’s public internet.
2. Cloud with a controlled experimental network scenario. This scenario consists of using nodes connected over a user-controlled emulated virtual internet. This second scenario is supported by the Virtual Wall environment enriched with Cloud capabilities.
3. Extended cloud with complex network implications scenario. This consists of using two cloud sites interconnected through a controlled network that allows studying the implications of the network behavior on services and clouds, and experiment with new solutions and approaches. This scenario implies a vertical federation with a cloud-to-network interface.

The project will support the researchers to set up and run their experiments on BonFIRE. We will also provide appropriate methods for describing, deploying, managing, executing and measuring experiments in our distributed cloud infrastructure.

Experiments shall propose innovative usage scenarios exploiting the multiple dimensions and scale of the facility. These activities should exhibit a degree of innovation in the use of the facility, including system level experiments, making a comprehensive use of several components of the facility, potential impact on users, etc.

[Topic b)] The project also seeks a Cloud provider to become a BonFIRE federated site and to enable the deployment of experiments.

The profile of the company we are looking to engage with is a private/public cloud infrastructure provider with access to their own platform and the ability to support the creation of a new BonFIRE site on its infrastructure. The new provider will give access to their platform via programmable APIs and web-based interfaces and have enough capacity to host a lab-like project environment.

Call open: The call will be open for submissions from 1st February 2012
Deadline: The call closes on 7th March 2012 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: September 2012 to August 2013 for experiments; September 2012 to November 2013 for Cloud provider
Maximum EC funding available is up to: 600.000€
Call identifier: BonFIRE-2- New experiments // Cloud provider
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): http://www.bonfire-project.eu/
Mail address for further information: bonfire@bonfire-project.eu
Mail address for proposal submissions: submissions@bonfire-project.eu

Announcement of a competitive call to select new experiments for TEFIS project

The following project currently active in the Seventh Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2007-2013) requires the participation of a new partner to carry out certain tasks within the project. Please note that the Seventh Framework programme offers part-funding not full-funding of research activities.

Project grant agreement number: 258142
Project acronym: TEFIS
Project full name: TEstbed for Future Internet Services
Instrument type: Integrated project
Thematic priority: Future Internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research [ICT-2009.1.6]
Project Coordinator: THALES Services SAS

Brief summary of task(s) requested:

TEFIS seeks to incorporate new experiments to run tests orchestrated across multiple heterogeneous testbeds.

The experiments shall propose usage scenarios exploiting at least 2 of the 6 facilities provided by TEFIS:

• PlanetLab – evaluation of network protocols and networked services over Internet
• PACA Grid – computing resources
• ETICS – Improving the quality and reliability of distributed systems
• Botnia Living Lab – end-users involvement in products and services development
• IMS testbed – validate and test applications over IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)
• Kyatera – network performance evaluation

Experiments should support the technical activities of TEFIS by providing feedback about the use of the platform and new functionalities that would be interesting to include in future versions

Experiments should also support the project dissemination activities by providing use case example; guidelines, best practices, etc.

The rules of participation and funding for each partner are the same as for any FP7 project.

We foresee to have typically one, maximum three participant organizations per experiment.

Call identifier: TEFIS – new experiments
Language in which the proposal should be submitted: English
Date of close of call: 11.05.2011 17h00 Brussels time
Total available funding for the call: 731 K€
Estimated funding available per experiment: €200.000 max
Internet address for further information: http://www.tefisproject.eu/opencall.html
Submission address: tefisopencall@cdt.ltu.se

Competitive call of the project BonFIRE (1st open call)

Project acronym: BonFIRE
Project contract number: 257386
Project Full name: Building service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Objectives of the Call: The BonFIRE project wants to incorporate a set of experiments to run tests on its multi-site cloud facility.

The BonFIRE project is designing, building and operating a multi-site cloud-based FIRE facility to support research across applications, services and systems targeting in particular but not exclusively the research community on Internet of Services. The BonFIRE vision is to give researchers in these areas access to a distributed cloud facility which supports experimentation of their systems and applications and the evaluation of cross-cutting aspects.

We expect that this will enable innovative scenarios from the services-based distributed computing research community to be tested. To achieve this objective, BonFIRE has mainly worked on two different scenarios relevant for this open call where testing can be performed under different conditions:

1. Extended cloud scenario: It consists of using the 4 BonFIRE computing sites interconnected through today’s public internet.
2. Cloud with a controlled experimental network scenario. This consists of using nodes connected over an emulated virtual internet. This second scenario is supported by the enrichment of the Virtual Wall environment with cloud capabilities.

We are mainly looking for Testing Experiments that want to trial on the cloud semi-consolidated software technologies or semi-mature results of services R&D IoS projects. Examples could be (but not restricted to) SMEs with beta technology, research partners with results of IoS call 1 project, academics with innovative technology in computer science, etc. The experiments should exploit the unique features of BonFIRE facility. Experiments shall propose usage scenarios exploiting the multiple dimensions and scale of the facility. These activities should exhibit and justify a degree of innovation in the use of the facility, including system level experiments, making a comprehensive use of several components of the facility, multisite testing, potential impact on users, etc.

Call open: The call will be open for submissions from 27th January 2011
Deadline: The call closes on Wednesday 9th March 2011 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: June 2011 to May 2012
Maximum EC funding available is up to: 750.000€ (max 200.000€ per experiment)
Call identifier: BonFIRE-1- New experiments
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
For further information (full call text/proposal guidelines):http://www.bonfire-project.eu/ and bonfire@bonfire-project.eu
Mail address for proposal submissions only: ict@ec.europa.eu

Competitive Call of the project OPTIMIS

Project acronym: OPTIMIS
Project contract number: 257115
Project Full name: Optimized Infrastructure Services

Objectives of the Call: The OPTIMIS project started in June 2010 and is currently funded until 30^th June 2013. At the current stage we are looking for a Cloud provider partner to participate in two of the project's use-case activities: cloud bursting and cloud brokerage, in order to perform the following tasks:

1. Offer access to products or infrastructure during their participation on the project:

• Infrastructure providers: Provide access to their platform via programmable APIs and web-based interfaces during project execution. Provision of a dedicated lab-like project environment where the project related development will be carried out, installed and integrated. Provision of operational support for this environment.
• Platform and Solution providers: Provide access to their solutions during project execution. Use, adaptation and integration of their solutions with the required components of the OPTIMIS toolkit.

2. As the rest of project partners:

• Direct participation in the technical activities of the project for implementing the use case scenarios. This includes being able to help with solving issues that might rise during the development and implementation time, being able to tweak the systems in place to work with the framework being developed within OPTIMIS etc.
• Support the rest of technical and business activities in the project, by contribution to general project requirements and use cases and contribution to identification of the Business Potential of the project’s solutions together with identification of project’s potential for its own business.

Call open: The call will be open for submissions from 13th January 2011
Extended Deadline: The call closes on Thursday 3^rd March at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: June 2011 to May 2013
Maximum EC funding available is up to: 250.000€
Call identifier: OPTIMIS New cloud provider
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines: http://www.optimis-project.eu/
Mail address for further information: optimis-callinfo@ymir.atosorigin.es
Mail address for proposal submissions only: ict@ec.europa.eu

Competitive Call of the project EO2HEAVEN

Project title: Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of HEAlth risks

Call announcement: EO2HEAVEN is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, theme 6, Environment (including Climate Change), Grant Agreement number: 244100.  The project EO2HEAVEN requires the participation of a new project partner (additional beneficiary) to carry out certain tasks.

These tasks address the following objectives: 1) To provide advice and guidance on the public health requirements for Earth observations in the design of the three project case studies, 2) To contribute to the dissemination and transfer of project results, 3) To support, in close cooperation with the GEO Secretariat, the GEOSS HE-09-01/02 Pilot activity within the project, 4) To assess and gather the requirements for environmental information for use in public health decision making, 5) To contribute to the methodological study of links between extracted environmental parameters and collected health data in close collaboration with scenario leaders, 6) To contribute to the final reporting and recommendations for the future implementation of integrated health and environmental monitoring systems.

Deadline: The call closes on 23 February 2011 at 17:00 (Brussels local time)

Expected duration of participation in project: May 2011 to January 2013
Total EC funding available for the new beneficiary is up to EURO 150 000
Call identifier: 244100-EO2HEAVEN-Call-2010
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): www.eo2heaven.org

Mail address for further information: 244100-EO2HEAVEN-Call-2010@iosb.fraunhofer.de

Responsible organization: Fraunhofer Institute IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany

Announcement of a competitive call for an ICT project PlanetData

Call extension For the competitive call of the ICT project PlanetData (see below), please note that the call deadline has now been extended to 16th February 2011, 17h00 Brussels time.

Project acronym: PlanetData
Grant agreement number: 257641

The ICT project PlanetData has vacancies in the consortium for partners having comprehensive research and technological expertise in the area of “Consuming Linked Data”.

Specific topics in the thematic area

We solicit proposals for research projects with a focus on demonstration of developed technologies in a concrete application context making use of publically available Linked Data sets. Relevant topics include but are not limited to Web-scale data management, searching and querying, reasoning, Linked Sensor Data, quality assessment and data curation, analytics and mining, front-ends and visualisation, as well as business and incentives models for data-driven services and applications. Submissions should demonstrate the applicability of their research results with an application that consumes data from the open Web, ideally of societal value, including, but not limited to the following domains: public sector information and statistical data, bibliographic and media sector information, life sciences, Earth science and environmental data, geospatial data, as well as transportation and urban management.

Facts and figures

Call open: The call will be open for submissions from 1^st January 2011
Deadline for submission of proposals: 11^th February 2011; 17h00 Brussels time
Expected duration of participation in project: 4 to 12 months, starting earliest in June 2011.
Proposal format: proposals can include one or more organisations eligible for EU funding, and should have an indicative funding between €15,000 and €100,000.
Call identifier: PD-1-2011.
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English.
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): www.planet-data.eu
Email address for further information: alice.carpentier@sti2.at

 

Extending the process limits of laser polymer welding with high-brilliance beam sources [PDF]

Project acronym: POLYBRIGHT
Project contract number: 228725

Objectives of the Call:The POLYBRIGHT project started in October 2009 and is currently funded until 30 September 2013. At the current stage, we are looking for an industrial partner to join the consortium, in order to perform the following tasks:

• Experiments and feedback on the new welding processes
• Provision of industry specifications for product design with respect to joint geometry and appearance
• Characterisation of materials undergone new laser welding process
• Definition of design and setup of a prototype machine
• Definition of industry quality assurance specifications
• Definition and development of quality control system consisting of camera/sensor and closed-loop-control
• Development and validation of a process-control-system according to defined specifications and requirements
• Definition of prototype test set-up and performance
• Welding test according to definitions and specifications with prototype
• Validation of welding process and process control system
• Evaluation of welded samples according to definitions and specifications (homologation)

Deadline: The call closes on 25 January 2011 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: 01 March 2011 - 30 September 2013
Maximum EC funding available: Research and technology development: € 127 131 / Demonstration: € 324 000
Call identifier: POLYBRIGHT New Project Partner
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information: http://www.polybright.eu/competitive-call.html
Mail address for further information: alexander.olowinsky@ilt.fraunhofer.de

 

Competitive call announcement of the FP7 large scale project EuroSyStem 'Stem Cell Group'

The European Stem Cell Group is holding an extraordinary call for members.
This is an opportunity to join a unique community of leading stem cell researchers from across Europe.

We have a small number of places available for established and emerging researchers to join the Group and become Associate Principal Investigators with EuroSyStem.

Project Acronym: EUROSYSTEM
Title: European consortium for systematic stem cell biology
Research area: HEALTH-2007-2.1.2-3 Fundamental approaches to stem cell differentiation

Project Reference: 200720
Start Date: 2008-03-01
Duration: 48 months
Project Cost: 15.82 million euro
Contract Type: Large-scale integrating project
End Date: 2012-02-29
Project Status: Execution
Project Funding: 12 million euro

 

Web address for further information: http://www.eurosystemproject.eu/news

Deadline for Applications: 3rd December 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A COMPETITVE CALL FOR AN ADDITIONAL PROJECT PARTNER

The following project (“Low Input Breeds”), currently active in the Seventh Framework programme of the Euroepan Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation, requires the participation of 3 new project partners to carry out specific tasks within the project that will be further on described.

Project contract number: 222623
Project acronym: LowInputBreeds
Project full name: Development of integrated livestock breeding and management strategies to improve animal health, product quality and performance in European organic and “low input” milk, meat and egg production
Instrument type: Large collaborative project

Summary of tasks:

The call is to recruit partners to collaborate in the dairy cattle sub-project (SP1, Improving “Low Input” dairy cattle) of the Low Input Breeds project. The main objective of this sub-project is to simulate the day by day operations in a dairy cattle herd. For the day by day operations in the herd, different sizes and types of operations within herds, i.e. breeding strategies, age structures and culling decisions have to be considered following probabilities of occurrence. The individual variability of a cow will be simulated for a multitude of traits (production, health, growth, type traits, fertility, survival, feed intake). Based on daily phenotypic values, input and output in terms of energy efficiency will be determined for different low input production systems.

Three additional ICPC (International Cooperation Partner Countries) partners from the Mediterranean, North Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East regions are being recruited to:

1. support the project with substantial data of interest:

• the main interest is in phenotypic data on beef traits of dairy cattle (weaning weight, growth rate, feed intake, etc …);
• additionally, phenotypic test day data for dairy traits are considered;
• any other available phenotypic data on dairy cattle;
• corresponding pedigrees;

2. provide detailed information related to breeding strategies (outline of the breeding program);

3. provide detailed information about herd parameters (herd size, culling rates within herds, culling strategies).

The main decision for recruiting partners will be based on data quantity and data quality.

Expected duration of participation in the project: from 01/11/2010 to 29/02/2012

Estimated costs and funding for each of the 3 partners
Research costs: € 40-60000 (supported by EU funding of 75 - 50%)
Total Commission funding available: € 90000 (€30000 for each partner)

Call identifier:
Language in which proposal should be submitted: english
Date of close of call: 6 October 2010
Time of close of call: 12:00 (Bruxelles time)

Web address for further information: http://www.lowinputbreeds.org/
Mail address for further information: filippo.biscarini@agr.uni-goettingen.de

TOBI CALL FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PARTNER [PDF]

Project acronym: TOBI
Project contract number: 224631

Call announcement: The project TOBI currently active in the Seventh Framework program of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2007-2013) requires the participation of a new project partner to carry out certain tasks within the project.

We have a vacancy in our consortium for an industrial partner established in an EU Member State or Associated State, to perform the following tasks:
a) Support the development of one or more Application and/or Research project areas, according to applicant experience.
b) Actively participate in the development of TOBI industrial strategy to bring TOBI results in the field of BCI technology to the market.

Deadline: The call closes on 2 June 2010 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Estimated costs and funding for the tasks: Total EC funding available for new partners is up to € 480.000
Call identifier: TOBI CALL FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PARTNER
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): http://www.tobi-project.org/call-partner
Mail address for further information: nl.millan@hsantalucia.it

Complementary Organic Semiconductor and Metal Integrated Circuits Project

Project acronym: COSMIC
Project contract number: 247681

Call announcement: The deadline for submission of proposals to the COSMIC competitive call described below has now been extended to 26th May.

The project COSMIC currently active in the Seventh Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2007-2013) requires the participation of a new project partner to carry out certain tasks within the project.

We have a vacancy in our consortium for a partner established in an EU Member State or Associated State, and having comprehensive expertise in the research area of organic integrated circuits. The new partner's task is to demonstrate the project developments in an ambitious lead application for organic integrated circuits, e. g. a line driver circuit for QVGA displays (240 lines) or a comparable flexible organic circuit of similar complexity. The work includes specification, design, fabrication and characterisation of the integrated circuit, which must be based on p- and n-type organic semiconductors and has to be fabricated in the final stage on foil substrates.

Deadline: The call closes on 26 May 2010 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: June 2010 to December 2013
Estimated costs and funding for the tasks: Total EC funding available for new partners is up to € 444.750
Call identifier: COSMIC-partner8
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): http://www.project-cosmic.eu
Mail address for further information: info@project-cosmic.eu

European Virtual Institute of Malaria Research [PDF]

The European Virtual Institute of Malaria Research (EVIMmalaR), a joint research FP7 Network of Excellence, invites letters of Interest, from European and African scientific teams, to integrate malaria research directed towards a better understanding of the basic knowledge of the parasite, its vector and of the biology of the interactions between the parasite and both its mammalian host and vectors. The research interest of applicants shall be focussed on studies in the biology and pathology of the malaria parasite.

Project acronym: EVIMalaR
Project contract number: 242095
Call announcement: 21st January 2010
Deadline: 15th March, 2010
Expected duration of participation in project: 60 months
Call identifier: HEALTH-2009-Single-stage2.3.2-1 published on 3/09/2008 
Language in which proposal should be submitted: Preferably in EN
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): www.evimalar.org
Mail address for further information: evimalar‐office@bio.gla.ac.uk

Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services

Project acronym: HAPTIMAP
Project contract number: ICT-2007-224657

Call announcement: The HAPTIMAP project currently active in the Seventh Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2007-2013) requires the participation of a new commercial project partner to carry out certain tasks within the project.

We have a vacancy in our consortium for up to two new commercial partners established in an EU Member State or Associated State to develop a map or location based service that uses haptic, audio and/or visual information for the interaction. An alternative would be to enhance an existing service. The expected spread and impact of the service is important: We want to strengthen the project by adding commercial applications/services that demonstrate the usefulness of our designs.

Deadline: The call closes on 24 March 2010 at 17h00 (Brussels time)
Expected duration of participation in project: June 2010 to August 2012
Estimated costs and funding for the tasks: Total EC funding available for new partners is up to EUR 200,000
Call identifier: haptimap_competitive_call
Language in which proposal should be submitted: English
Web address for further information (full call text/proposal guidelines): http://www.haptimap.org/competitive-call.html
Mail address for further information: HaptiMap-management@design.lth.se