Support for IMS in Europe
IMS is about multilateral R&D cooperation. Project teams must therefore involve partners from at least 3 of the IMS member countries/regions (EU, USA, Japan, Korea and Switzerland).
European participants can apply for funding under the 7th Framework Programme for Research (FP7). The involved Commission services are:
- Information Society and Media Directorate-General, and
- Research Directorate-General, Industrial Technologies
IMS relevant Calls (applicable for EU Member State, for Norwegian and for Swiss researchers):
- "Cooperation" part of FP7 (ICT and NMP Themes). See the current list of open calls under FP7 - find a call
- Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies (NMP Theme).
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT Theme). The most relevant activities related to IMS are under Challenge 3 (Components, Systems, Engineering) of the ICT Work Programme (2009-10) (
pdf).
Guideline document:
- Download the Guide for EU, Norwegian and Swiss IMS participants
Further information on how to launch an IMS project:
http://www.ims.org/content/introduction/
Further information on how to launch an IMS project:
Since June 2010, European IMS participants can draw on the experience and expertise of an IMS Project Facilitator. For 2010/11 Dr Thomas Messervey has been appointed as IMS Project Facilitator:
Dr. Thomas Messervey is a civil engineer who specialises in the use of sensor technologies in the engineering sciences for energy efficiency, increased security, performance monitoring, and management. He is a 1994 civil engineering graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, received his M.Eng. degree from Stanford University in structural engineering, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pavia, Italy in the use of structural health monitoring for the lifecycle management of highway bridges. He holds dual American-Italian citizenship and is currently a project manager in the Industrial Innovation Division of the Italian engineering consulting company D’Appolonia S.p.A., headquartered in Genova, Italy. Since 2009, Dr. Messervey has been associated with the IMS programme through forming and leading the IMS project Industrial Smart Material Applications (ISMA). He has since become involved in the European Technology Platform Manufuture, the Public Private Partnership "Factories of the Future", and the IMS2020 Project. In 2010, he was appointed as the EU Regional Facilitator to counsel, guide, and coach European stakeholders who want to form their own IMS projects.
Contact details: Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, D’Appolonia S.p.A., EU IMS Regional Facilitator, Email: Contact form