Objective
In August 1998, the European Commission's IST-Future and emerging technologies (FET) Unit, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF's CISE division) signed a Memorandum of Understanding entitled "Understanding on Co-operation in Information Technology". The objective was to set the basis for stimulating the EU-US collaboration between FET and NSF in the area of basic research in Information Technology (IT). The collaboration has been defined to comprise 2 major activities:
1. A series of strategic research workshops aiming to identify key research challenges and opportunities in IT. A Strategic Workshop Review Committee (SWRC) will supervise this activity. The themes will emanate from the research community in itself;
2. Joint EU-US calls for proposals, to be launched in due time according to the opportunities of collaboration identified by the workshops.
OBJECTIVES
This project, co-ordinated by ERCIM, will structure the work of the European actors involved in preparing and accompanying the first from the above two activities. The Strategic Workshop Review Committee (SWRC) will select the areas for joint research workshops. ERCIM will interact with this Committee and will co-ordinate the European side by realising the following actions:
- Solicit bottom-up ideas for high-level workshops from the European IT scientific community. The focus is on key emerging areas of mutual interest on which a world-class series of workshops would be relevant;
- Evaluate and select a large group of topics that will be forwarded to the SWRC for final selection. The list to be constructed will include a short justification for each topic and will result from a concerted action with the US partner organisation. ERCIM will set up an ad-hoc scientific steering committee that will perform this task. The SWRC will then determine the different workshops to be launched and nominate their respective Programme Committees. In the following years, the SWRC will meet to determine the particular focus of the next workshops;
- Organise the selected workshops to take place in Europe and support (in non financial terms, except by channelling the payment of the travel for EU experts) those which will take place in the US. The ERCIM Office, in co-ordination with each workshop's Programme Committee will take the organisation in charge. The Office will ensure the dissemination of the information on the workshop, the execution of the meetings and pilot the reporting associated with it.
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