FP7 SUNRISE project announces second competitive Open Call for additional project beneficiaries
The main objective of this Open Call (http://fp7-sunrise.eu/index.php/open-calls2(öffnet in neuem Fenster)) is to enlarge the infrastructure capacity of SUNRISE by additional activities and testbeds aiming at achieving: • balanced geographical distribution of infrastructures across Europe; • increased heterogeneity of infrastructures and diversity of marine environments, application scenarios, monitoring and service capabilities; • greater diversity of underwater sensing technologies, supported platforms, underwater communication technologies and protocols, as well as of energy sources used to power underwater assets; • expanding services and applicability; • valorisation and exploitation. This Open Call will fund the five different types of project indicated below: • The federation of additional sites or experiments on already existing SUNRISE testing facilities to further enhance SUNRISE testing infrastructure (Project “TYPE A”); • The incorporation of novel algorithms, protocols, sensors, node platforms, communication devices and technologies to be included in SUNRISE facilities (Project “TYPE B”); • The development of applications and services exploiting SUNRISE technology and deployments (Project “TYPE C”); • End-user experiments leveraging on SUNRISE permanent testing infrastructures or re-deployable testing facilities (Project “TYPE D”); • Development of business cases for SUNRISE technologies exploitation (Project “TYPE E”). The call explicitly targets the following groups of potential proposers: • Research organisations or other types of institutions able to make available either experts in the application domain (e.g. marine biologists) or in the related technologies (e.g. networking experts, communication and signal processing experts, robotics experts, security experts, etc.) interested in using the experimental facility to validate their research (e.g. a new model predicting the impact of pollutants on the population of fish, a new technology for underwater communications). • Technology Providers: companies or research institutions willing to evaluate prototypes and/or products by using the SUNRISE testing infrastructure. • Application Service Providers: entities – among others innovative companies – which are interested in using the testbeds to evaluate the effectiveness of pre-commercial services in a real environment which is not easily accessible otherwise (for example the monitoring of an underwater pipeline). • Organisations and consulting companies with expertise in business development interested in analyzing SUNRISE reference markets and SUNRISE technologies to identify business and exploitation plans, and to provide an exploitation roadmap. In consideration of the funding available and the objectives of the call, focused proposals submitted by a single institution are encouraged. However for particular reasons, that must be explained and justified, a proposal may involve up to three legal entities. In this case, the splitting of responsibilities, activities, and resources should be made very clear in the project proposal. Call budget: up to EUR 900 000 is available to be distributed among four to six new beneficiaries (not necessarily evenly). Maximum contribution recommended for each of the five project types encompassed by the call: • TYPE A:up to EUR 250 000 • TYPE B:up to EUR 250 000 • TYPE C:up to EUR 150 000 • TYPE D:up to EUR 150 000 • TYPE E:up to EUR 50 000 Call Calendar: - Open Call Deadline: Friday 7 August, midnight - Expected project notification: 30 September, 2015 - Expected start of selected projects: 1 November, 2015 Proposal should be submitted via email to: sunriseopencall@di.uniroma1.it according to the procedure in the Guide for Applicants (§5.1) Language in which the proposal should be submitted: English Web address for further information (full call text/guidelines): http://fp7-sunrise.eu/index.php/open-calls2(öffnet in neuem Fenster) Email address for further information: fp7-sunrise@di.uniroma1.it
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