Presentation by Julie Montegu, Project manager of the FogGuru project, at the FogGuru Boot Camp training in September 2018.

1. TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF EUROPEAN FOG COMPUTING EXPERTS
Project management
Boot Camp – September 18th to 20th - Rennes
Julie Montégu

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1 What kind of project is FogGuru?
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3. What kind of project is FogGuru?
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 FogGuru is an Innovative Training network (ITN)
The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) aim to train a new generation of creative,
entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and
future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services
for economic and social benefit.
• European Industrial Doctorate (EID) (2017 success rate: 10.5%)
• Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation program
• Under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
=> Its main objective is to train the next generation of European Fog
computing experts

4. What kind of project is FogGuru?
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 FogGuru started on September 1st 2017, for 4 years
 8 PhD positions = 8 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)
 Budget: 2 067 625 Euros
 4 beneficiaries and 2 partners are involved (project’s
consortium):
• Université de Rennes 1, France (UR1)
• TU Berlin, Germany (TUB)
• Elastisys AB, Sweden (ELA)
• U-Hopper, Italy (UH)
• EIT Digital Rennes, France (EITDR)
• Las Naves, Spain (LNV)

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2 FogGuru’s governance and structure
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6. FogGuru’s governance and structure
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• A Coordination team (CT): day-to-day management of scientific
and administrative, financial and legal aspects
• Guillaume Pierre and Julie Montégu
• At least one meeting per week
• A Steering Committee (ST): the main decision- making body for all
management-related issues
• One representative from each beneficiary and partner organization
• Chaired by the Coordinator
• At least once a year and as often as necessary upon request from one
beneficiary
• A Supervisory Board (SB): Scientific and training-related aspects
• Supervisors, one representative from the partner organization and one
representative of the ESRs.
• Once a year

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 Reference documents:
1) The grant agreement n° 765452 (130 pages)
• Signed between the Research Executive Agency (REA) and the
beneficiaries (UR1, TUB, ELA and UH)
• Composed of:
• Terms and conditions of the agreement
– 7 chapters (Action, grant, rights and obligations, roles, costs)
• Annex 1: Description of the Action (DoA), (part A and part B)
• Annex 2: Estimated budget for the action
• Accession forms
• Model for the financial statements

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 Annex 1: Description of the Action (DoA)
• Part A

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 What’s a Work package(WP)?
• A group of related tasks within a project
• With a duration
• Allocates specific tasks and roles to each member of the
consortium (WP Leaders),
• Defines the project's deliverables and milestones
 What’s a deliverable (D)?:
• An output (e.g. report, a brochure, software)
• With a delivery date
 What’s a Milestone (MS)?
• A specific moment within the project’s life to measure the project’s
progress
• With a date

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 FogGuru is composed of 8 WPs

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 FogGuru is composed of 8 Milestones

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 24 deliverables
WP n° Reference
Title Description
Lead
beneficiary Nature
Dissemination
level
Estimated delivery
date
1 D1.1 Consortium agreement Consortium agreement UR1 Report Confidential 31 October 2017
1 D1.2 Supervisory board of the Network Supervisory board of the Network UR1 Report Confidential 31 October 2017
1 D1.3 Progress report Progress report UR1 Report Confidential 30 September 2018
2 D2.1 Personal career development plan for each ESR (PCDP) A copy of every ESR's personal career development plan. UH Report Confidential 31 May 2018
2 D2.2
Training material A copy of all training material produced during the project. UH Websites, patents fillings, etc. Public 31 August 2021
2 D2.3 PhD defense status PhD defense status for each ESR. UR1 Report Confidential 31 August 2021
3 D3.1
Detailed living lab plan
Includes a detailed description of the living lab organization and the definition of specific KPIs for the
Living Lab. UR1 Report Confidential 31 August 2019
3 D3.2
Living lab report (Initial)
Includes a detailed description of the first outcomes of the living lab based on the first batch of ESRs and
the KPIs specified in Deliverable D3.1. UR1 Report Confidential 31 August 2020
3 D3.3
Living lab report (Final)
Includes a detailed description of the living lab outcomes and a report on the KPIs specified in
Deliverable D3.1. UR1 Report Confidential 31 August 2021
4 D4.1
Requirements for application resource management
This deliverable includes detailed specifications of requirements as well as a detailed review of state-of-
the-art in the field. ELA Report Public 31 August 2018
4 D4.2 Mechanisms for application resource management in fog computing
architectures This deliverable contains a detailed description of technologies proposed by the ESRs on this topic. ELA Report Public 31 August 2019
4 D4.3 Blueprints for innovative applications based on forg computing
platforms Includes a detailed description of the proposed blueprints. UH Report Public 31 August 2020
4 D4.4
Evaluation of the fog computing platform Includes thorough evaluation reports of technologies and application blueprints in realistic conditions. UR1 Report Public 31 August 2021
5 D5.1 Requirements for real-time distributed stream processing in fog
architectures
This deliverable includes detailed specifications of requirements as well as a review of state-of-the-art in
the field. TUB Report Public 31 August 2018
5 D5.2
Mechanisms for elasticity and robust data stream optimizations This deliverable contains a detailed description of technologies proposed by the ESRs on these topics. TUB Report Public 31 August 2019
5 D5.3 Blueprints for fog applications based on stream processing Includes a detailed description of the proposed blueprints. TUB Report Public 31 August 2020
5 D5.4
Evaluation of the stream processing platform Includes thorough evaluation reports of technologies and application blueprints in realistic conditions. TUB Report Public 31 August 2021
6 D6.1
Project website and social media channels Release of project Web site and social media accounts, and procedures for their management. ELA Websites, patents fillings, etc. Confidential 30 November 2017
6 D6.2
Communication and public engagement plan
It includes an identification of targets for communication/dissemination action, a description of the
channels to reach out to them, the definition of messages to be used for each target/channel pair and
a number of specific KPIs for assessing the effectiveness of the actions undertaken. UH Report Confidential 30 November 2017
6 D6.3 Mid-term report on dissemination, communication and stakeholder's
engagement
Assesses the quality of dissemination and communication activities, the results achieved and their
impacts. UH Report Confidential 31 August 2019
6 D6.4
Innovation and exploitation strategy
Analysis from an innovation and market perspective of the knowledge generated jointly and within
individual research projects, together with the definition of actionable plans for the go-to-market, in
particular related to the business of the FogGuru SMEs. UH Report Confidential 31 August 2021
7 D7.1
POPD - Requirement n°1
Detailed information must be provided on the procedures that will be implemented for data collection,
storage, protection, retention and destruction and confirmation that they comply with national and EU
legislation (if personal data are to be collected). UR1 Ethics Confidential 31 August 2018
8 D8.1
Data management Plan (DMP)
Describes the data management cycle life for all datasets to be collected, processed or generated by
the project. UR1
ORDP: Open Research Data
Pilot Confidential 28 February 2018

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 Annex 1: Description of the Action (DoA)
• Part B
• The proposal submitted in January 2017
• Written by the members of the consortium,
– Part A: administrative information
– Part B: Table of contents:

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 Reference documents:
2) The Consortium agreement
• Signed between the Coordinator (UR1)and all partners (TUB, ELA,
UH, EITDR and LNV)
• Composed of:
• Terms and conditions of the agreement
– 12 sections (Definitions; purpose; entry into force, duration and termination;
responsibilities of the parties; liability towards each other; governance
structure; financial provisions; results; access rights; signatures)
• Attachment 1: Background included
• Attachment 2: Accession form
• Attachment 3: List of third parties for simplified transfer
• Attachment 4: Identified affiliated entities
• Attachment 5: Budget after reallocation
• Attachment 6: Secondment agreement Template

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3 FogGuru’s Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)
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16. FogGuru’s Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)
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 What is an ESR?:
• An ESR is, at the time of recruitment by the host organization, in the
first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their
research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree.
• “Full-time equivalent research experience is measured from the date
when the researcher obtained the degree entitling him or her to embark
on a doctorate, (either in the country in which the degree was obtained
or in the country in which the researcher is recruited) even if a doctorate
was never started or envisaged. Part-time research experience will be
counted pro-rata”
– ITN Fellow (=> fellowship from the European Commission)

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 8 Trainings:

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 8 Trainings:
• N° 1- Boot Camp: its main goal is to allow the ESRs and supervisors to
know eachother (team building), to provide them with technical
content:
• September 18th-20th
• N° 2-Opportunity Recognition (OR): its main goal is to develop an
entrepreneurial mindset and learn to think in terms of potential
products rather than “cool technologies”:
• First session on June 4th-8th and second session (date to be confirmed)
• N° 3- Year one workshop: research methods, which main goal is to
follow the progress of each ESR research project and to provide soft
skills training around the “How to do research” theme:
• January 2019

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• N° 4- Mid-thesis defenses: the goal is to allow the ESRs to reflect on
their own progress, to present a work plan of the remaining time of
their PhD studies, to get a feedback from external experts:
• February 2020
• N° 5-Business Modeling and Development (BMD): aims at training
the ESRs to the process of turning an innovative product or service
idea with a structured business model into a real business:
• February 2020
• N° 6- Year 2 workshop: linking with other disciplines, which aims at
allowing the ESRs to understand the relations between their own
research project and related scientific disciplines such as machine
learning, statistical analysis and business process management:
• October 2020

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• N° 7-Growth and Harvest (GH): its goal is to introduce ESRs to the
challenge of growing a business (locally and internationally) with
the related strategy, management, human resourcing and
financing issue:
• October 2020
• N°8- PhD defenses: to validate the scientific contributions of the
ESRs and to deliver doctorate degrees:
• August 2021 – October 2021

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 Secondments:
• ITN-EID rule: each ESR has to spend at least 50% of his/her time with
one or more beneficiaries or partner organizations from the non-
academic sectors.
• Intern rules in the consortium:
– The ESRs will stay at the employer's premises for at least 9 to 12 months during
the first year of their contract,
– There aren't any short secondments so that the ESRs can really get involved in
their research and training activities,
– As organized in the first version of the Gantt, the ESRs will be divided in 2
groups during the Living-lab (2 consecutive periods of time in Valencia),
– The ESRs will finish their contract with their University's supervisor so that they
can have time to finish writing their PhD Thesis.

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 Gantt Chart:
• Definition: a bar graph used to illustrate a project schedule.
• Gantt Chart Version 1: submitted with the project’s proposal
• Gantt Chart Version 2: reorganized and proposed according to the
ESRs’ contract starting date.

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 Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP)
• A dynamic CV,
• Built in close collaboration with the supervisors,
• First version must be delivered in September,
• Updated every 6 months.
• Content:
• Research project and major accomplishments expected,
• Long-term career objectives,
• Short-term objectives
– Research results,
– Research skills and techniques,
– Research management,
– Communication skills,
– Other professional training,
– Networking opportunities,
– Other activities.

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 Time sheet: a tool to record the time spent on the project
• In case of an Audit, this document will be ask to the Coordinator
(UR1) as a proof of full commitment from the ESRs to FogGuru
• Depending on the ESRs’ employer, the time sheet’s format can be
different (To fill in online or Word/Excel format)

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4 The Mid-term Check (MTC)
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26. Mid-Term Check (MTC)
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 A meeting organized between the REA Project Officer and the
Project Coordinator, the scientists-in-charge, the representatives
of the Partner Organisations (if any) as well as all the appointed
Early Stage Researchers,
 The progress report is the basis for the assessment and the
discussion during the meeting (will be submitted on September
30th),
 One-day meeting (in Paris or Brussels?)

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 Agenda:
• Introduction: Short introduction by the REA Project Officer and the
Project Coordinator (~5 minutes) on the purpose of the meeting,
• Tour de table: All scientists-in-charge should briefly present their
research team and describe their role within the network.
Introduction of the Partner Organisations (~30 minutes),
• REA Project officer presentation: presentation on the monitoring of
project implementation, reporting and purpose of the mid-term
check (~20 minutes).

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• Coordinator's report: Presentation of the Network and the progress
covering the following aspects (~between 45 and 60 minutes):
• Recruitment report;
• Deliverables;
• Milestones;
• Ethical issues,
• Management meetings,
• Financial aspects,
• Critical implementation risks and mitigation actions,
• Any proposed re-orientations of the networks’ activities,
• Document management and Open Research Data.
• Fellows' individual presentation: Every ESR will present
herself/himself, his background and present his/her individual
research project (foreseen research, training, secondments, etc.).
Scientific results are not expected in the presentations at this stage
of the project.

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• Restricted session with the fellows (~1 to 3 hours).
• Restricted session: Meeting between coordinator and Project
Officer to discuss any issue (~15 minutes).
• Feedback and open discussion: Feedback from the REA Project
Officer on the output of the network so far, on possible training
areas for future exploitation or the impact on fellows' future careers
development (~15-30 minutes).
• Site visit (optional): Review how the host institution is operating to
meeting the project objectives.

30. The FogGuru project has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie
Skłodowska-Curie grant 765452.
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