At the first CEI – SEENET- MTP Workshop “Widening Participation of CEI Countries in the EU Research Programs – Training-Research in Physics", Bucharest, Romania, May 25-27 2014.
Kęstutis Jasiūnas: Complex cooperation and Tower of BabelCUBCCE Conference
Main problems in communication between science, business and education are talking in different languages or having a different aspirations. Some examples from personal experience in facing this and solutions to avoid will be presented.
David S. Johnson of AT&T Labs Research will receive the 2009 ACM Knuth Prize for his influential contributions to the theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms, as well as the early development of NP-completeness theory. Johnson established rigorous standards for experimental algorithms and authored highly influential papers on approximation techniques to solve computationally difficult problems. His 1979 book with Michael Garey, Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness, remains the standard reference on the topic.
Sunrise Valley – bringing Bussines and Science together.Sunrise valley
Sunrise Valley is a concept in Lithuania that brings together business and science through integrated science, study and business centers called valleys. The government plans to launch five such valleys between 2007-2013 in Vilnius and Kaunas focusing on fields like electronics, nanotechnology, and biomedicine. Public investment will support infrastructure development for research, technology parks, and incubators to foster technology transfer and business financing. Sunrise Valley in Vilnius focuses on areas like lasers, materials science, and electronics, and hosts research excellence centers and scientists. It is located on the campus of Vilnius University and Technical University, and includes a science and technology park for housing companies.
This document discusses industrial clusters through two case studies. It defines a cluster as a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses in a particular field. The semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley and the automobile industry in Detroit are provided as historical examples of successful clusters. Benefits of clusters include access to resources, information, institutions, customer needs and technology. Potential downsides are homogeneousness, monopolization and high business costs. Current issues facing clusters include lack of knowledge sharing, liquidity and government support. Solutions proposed are strong leadership, start-up support, open innovation and collaboration between government, institutions, universities and companies. Case studies of the Tsukuba Science City cluster in Japan and the Silicon Valley cluster in the US are then described.
2009 - Science parks a real estate development or regional economic value - p...Jacques Van Dinteren
Given the increased importance of knowledge as a production factor in many companies it is not surprising that there is a growing interest in the development of science and technology parks. These parks often have a high quality. The question comes up whether a science park is a real estate concept or an ‘engine’ that stimulates the exchange of strategic information and innovation.
On the basis of the results of studies, it may be assumed that there are either no strategic relationships between companies and between companies and the local university/universities at science parks or that such relationships are not very strong Angle, 2003; Capello & Morrison, 2005; Ponds & Van Oort, 2006; Weterings & Ponds, 2007). The added value of a science park is therefore not to be found in this context. Perhaps then we should view a science park primarily as a real estate concept. Not in the narrow sense of the word (property development) but more widely, so that the facilities, etc., are also included in the concept – a development that differs from other commercial sites by its high level of spatial quality, services and facilities.
This document provides a history of foresight activities in the UK government from the 1990s to present day. It discusses three cycles of the UK Foresight Programme from 1994-1999, 2000-2002, and 2002-onwards. It describes how the programme has shifted from using broad panels to a rolling set of focused projects. It also notes the many other foresight activities taking place across different government departments and regions in the UK beyond the central Foresight Programme.
Creating virtual groundwater research laboratories through interoperable tech...Helen Thompson
eResearch
How do we provide access to big and complex data in a way that people can use easily… but without biasing the data?
How do we incorporate qualitative data and quantitative data into models and maintain accuracy?
How can we harness Citizen Science and include crowd-sourced data and maintain accuracy?
Can we use digital technologies to we ensure that we don’t keep repeating the same science?
This document summarizes developments in ground-based and space-based astronomy. It discusses controversies over the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and reports on progress of the TMT technology. It also describes advances by the European Space Agency, German Aerospace Center, and NASA in space-based telescopes and observatories, which have eclipsed the TMT project. These agencies are collaborating on projects like the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Kęstutis Jasiūnas: Complex cooperation and Tower of BabelCUBCCE Conference
Main problems in communication between science, business and education are talking in different languages or having a different aspirations. Some examples from personal experience in facing this and solutions to avoid will be presented.
David S. Johnson of AT&T Labs Research will receive the 2009 ACM Knuth Prize for his influential contributions to the theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms, as well as the early development of NP-completeness theory. Johnson established rigorous standards for experimental algorithms and authored highly influential papers on approximation techniques to solve computationally difficult problems. His 1979 book with Michael Garey, Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness, remains the standard reference on the topic.
Sunrise Valley – bringing Bussines and Science together.Sunrise valley
Sunrise Valley is a concept in Lithuania that brings together business and science through integrated science, study and business centers called valleys. The government plans to launch five such valleys between 2007-2013 in Vilnius and Kaunas focusing on fields like electronics, nanotechnology, and biomedicine. Public investment will support infrastructure development for research, technology parks, and incubators to foster technology transfer and business financing. Sunrise Valley in Vilnius focuses on areas like lasers, materials science, and electronics, and hosts research excellence centers and scientists. It is located on the campus of Vilnius University and Technical University, and includes a science and technology park for housing companies.
This document discusses industrial clusters through two case studies. It defines a cluster as a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses in a particular field. The semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley and the automobile industry in Detroit are provided as historical examples of successful clusters. Benefits of clusters include access to resources, information, institutions, customer needs and technology. Potential downsides are homogeneousness, monopolization and high business costs. Current issues facing clusters include lack of knowledge sharing, liquidity and government support. Solutions proposed are strong leadership, start-up support, open innovation and collaboration between government, institutions, universities and companies. Case studies of the Tsukuba Science City cluster in Japan and the Silicon Valley cluster in the US are then described.
2009 - Science parks a real estate development or regional economic value - p...Jacques Van Dinteren
Given the increased importance of knowledge as a production factor in many companies it is not surprising that there is a growing interest in the development of science and technology parks. These parks often have a high quality. The question comes up whether a science park is a real estate concept or an ‘engine’ that stimulates the exchange of strategic information and innovation.
On the basis of the results of studies, it may be assumed that there are either no strategic relationships between companies and between companies and the local university/universities at science parks or that such relationships are not very strong Angle, 2003; Capello & Morrison, 2005; Ponds & Van Oort, 2006; Weterings & Ponds, 2007). The added value of a science park is therefore not to be found in this context. Perhaps then we should view a science park primarily as a real estate concept. Not in the narrow sense of the word (property development) but more widely, so that the facilities, etc., are also included in the concept – a development that differs from other commercial sites by its high level of spatial quality, services and facilities.
This document provides a history of foresight activities in the UK government from the 1990s to present day. It discusses three cycles of the UK Foresight Programme from 1994-1999, 2000-2002, and 2002-onwards. It describes how the programme has shifted from using broad panels to a rolling set of focused projects. It also notes the many other foresight activities taking place across different government departments and regions in the UK beyond the central Foresight Programme.
Creating virtual groundwater research laboratories through interoperable tech...Helen Thompson
eResearch
How do we provide access to big and complex data in a way that people can use easily… but without biasing the data?
How do we incorporate qualitative data and quantitative data into models and maintain accuracy?
How can we harness Citizen Science and include crowd-sourced data and maintain accuracy?
Can we use digital technologies to we ensure that we don’t keep repeating the same science?
This document summarizes developments in ground-based and space-based astronomy. It discusses controversies over the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and reports on progress of the TMT technology. It also describes advances by the European Space Agency, German Aerospace Center, and NASA in space-based telescopes and observatories, which have eclipsed the TMT project. These agencies are collaborating on projects like the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
D01L09 M Trajanovic - Mobilty of Researchers in SerbiaSEENET-MTP
The document discusses proposed changes and additions to Serbia's Strategy for Science and Development. It focuses on promoting researcher mobility, both within Serbia and abroad, through improved collaboration between universities/institutes, tax incentives for private sector employment, and programs engaging the Serbian scientific diaspora. It also addresses improving career development opportunities and transparency in hiring/funding processes, with an emphasis on early career researchers and participation of foreign experts.
The History of Industrialization & Innovation Group (HIIVA) at Aalto University School of Engineering conducts research on the history of technopolitics, industrialization, and their interaction with political and ideological developments. The group's research focuses on five main areas: the role of industrialization in terrorism's spread; the "9/11 effect" and the security-industrial complex; the decline of East-West trade and Finnish shipbuilding; the use of scale models in engineering education; and digital topic modeling methods. The group was established in 2013 under Professor Mats Fridlund and currently has four members.
Krzysztof Krzysztofiak: Krakow Technology Park innovation support system: fr...CUBCCE Conference
The presentation will present KTP complex system of innovation and business support that creatively adapted many recognized tools and methodologies, from special economic zone which was the first area of our activity, via technology park and incubation to living lab and other user-driven innovation concepts. The background is drawn by the evolution of regional innovation policy strategies and socioeconomic changes in Poland as Malopolska (Krakow) region.
The Energy Science Center of ETH Zürich is an interdisciplinary network of over 40 research groups across 11 departments focused on energy research and education. It aims to facilitate collaboration between ETH and industry/society through strategic research, education programs like the Master in Energy Science and Technology, and stakeholder engagement. The Center is led by a Managing Board and Director and advises ETH on energy research and education strategies through interdisciplinary working groups.
International Conference for Research in Management & EngineeringVish789
International Conference for Research in Management & Engineering (INCORME)
Conference Dates: 16 - 18 August 2016
Venue: Brunel University, London, United Kingdom
Multi-Channel ConvNet Approach to Predict the Risk of In-Hospital Mortality f...Mahmoud Elbattah
Presented at International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA) 2020
https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=1HSktBRmyxE=
Authors:
Fabien Viton, Mahmoud Elbattah, Jean-Luc Guérin, Gilles Dequen
Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France
mahmoud.elbattah@u-picardie.fr
European Data Science Academy - Enabling Data Driven Digital EuropePersontyle
The ‘Age of Data’ continues to thrive, with data being produced from all industries at a phenomenal rate that introduces numerous challenges regarding the collection, storage and analysis of this data. To address this problem, the European Data Science Academy (EDSA) will establish a virtuous learning production cycle for Data Science.
To learn more about the project visit: http://edsa-project.eu/
Architectural competitions are no longer simply professional praxis for
architects and a recurrent exercise for students at schools of architecture. The competition has also turned into a field of research, and this
book is part of an effort constituting the architectural competition as a field
for studies with scholarly claims. The first doctoral dissertations on competitions were presented in the 1990s in Europe. Another clear manifestation of
research interest is the growth and spread of scholarly conferences on architectural competitions.
The contributions to the book show in a convincing way that the architectural competition is an interesting and rewarding object for research. The
competition processes bear rich empirical findings to which one may refer for
knowledge about architecture as professional practice, as educational subject
and research platform. The architectural competition illustrates processes
of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it
shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative,
creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.
In this session, the concept of technology exaptation is introduced. With examples and descriptions, it is argued that exaptation can be a valuable approach to consider new applications for existing technology projects.
This is a session done with the University of Lorraine, Nancy, in 2021.
In this presentation we introduce some aspects that are relevant for technology entrepreneurship. The focus is on explaining why it matters how entrepreneurs make decisions, i.e. how important it is to reduce biases. We also discuss the importance of being aware of the commercialization choices, and how the presence of incumbents or established industrial players has to be taken into account when making these choices. Finally, we discuss how a market or industry view helps to frame decisions that take into account the implications for the emergence of an industry that can contribute in the further development of the new tech-based company.
Examples are used to illustrate these choices, with a specific focus on the renewable energy and the drone industry.
D01L08 F Stoeckel - Research in Germany and DAAD Partnership ProgrammesSEENET-MTP
The document summarizes key aspects of the German research landscape including major research institutions, industrial research contributions, expenditures, and current initiatives to promote research excellence and internationalization. It also describes the "Research in Germany - Land of Ideas" initiative aimed at promoting Germany as a top location for research through regional and topic-focused campaigns, events, and online resources. Scholarship and funding opportunities for international students through organizations like DAAD are also outlined.
ICT and Horizon 2020, Iddo Bante 2013-08-22Iddo Bante
This document provides an overview of the Horizon 2020 framework program for research and innovation from 2014-2020. Key points include:
- Horizon 2020 has a budget of €70.2 billion, focusing on excellent science, industrial leadership, and societal challenges.
- ICT is addressed under the industrial leadership priority, with an estimated budget of €8-9 billion. This focuses on areas like future internet, cloud computing, robotics, microelectronics, and photonics.
- Public-private partnerships (PPPs) will play an important role in implementing ICT and other industry-related activities. Both existing and new PPPs are outlined.
- The goals are to strengthen European leadership in key technologies,
Jornada informativa organizada el 24 de octubre de 2017 sobre las convocatorias del European Research Council (ERC) dentro del Programa Marco Europeo Horizonte 2020. El evento, celebrado en la Casa de la Ciencia (CSIC), fue organizado por la Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento en colaboración con el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas y el MINEICO.
"European cooperation in science and technology - COST actions" - Maria Morag...SEENET-MTP
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is an intergovernmental framework established in 1971 to enable coordination of nationally funded research. It supports networking of researchers through Actions involving meetings, conferences, workshops and other activities. Researchers from COST members, neighboring countries and international partners can participate in COST's 328 running Actions involving over 30,000 researchers annually. COST receives EUR 300 million from the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 to support excellence in transnational cooperation and networking in research and innovation.
The document summarizes the European Research Council's IDEAS program, which funds frontier research projects led by independent investigators. Key points include:
- It supports individual research teams without the need for transnational partnerships. Projects can be in new or emerging fields.
- Principal Investigators of any nationality can apply for Starting or Advanced Grants of up to 1.5 million Euros over 2-10 years.
- Evaluation considers the excellence of the PI and research project, as well as the research environment hosting the project. Only the most ambitious, ground-breaking projects are funded.
Horizon 2020 strengthening the contribution of jordan in the health sectorn d...SRTD _ II
This document provides information about Horizon 2020 and how to successfully apply for funding. It discusses the main pillars of Horizon 2020 including excellent science, industrial leadership, and societal challenges like health, demographic change and wellbeing. It provides examples of funded projects and application deadlines. The document concludes with recommendations for Jordan to strengthen its contribution, such as focusing on centers of excellence, talents, and innovative enterprises, as well as establishing strategic partnerships and contacts with the European Commission.
This document summarizes a study commissioned by the EPA on opportunities for Irish researchers to participate in the Horizon 2020 topic "SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems". The study mapped relevant research excellence and consortiums in Ireland and Europe. It identified 83 relevant projects across databases, including 20 Horizon 2020 projects and 63 FP7 projects. The study found that Irish researchers have been involved in 3 Earth observation projects under Horizon 2020 and 5 under FP7. The document outlines key disciplines and skills needed to develop novel in-situ observation systems and respond to challenges in this area.
A guide to ICT-related activities in WP2016-17Open Concept
Przewodnik Komisji Europejskiej, „A guide to ICT-related activities in WP2016-17” - czyli jak aplikować o środki w dziedzinie ICT w Programie Horyzont 2020.
This document provides an overview of the Horizon 2020 program and funding opportunities for engineering projects. It discusses the main pillars and societal challenges covered by Horizon 2020, including key enabling technologies. Specific examples are given of funded projects involving universities and companies in Northern Ireland, such as in composite materials, sustainable concrete, and low impact solvents. Upcoming calls and events are also listed, such as the NMP call on January 19th and the EuroNanoForum conference in June 2017. National funding opportunities through the Innovation Voucher program are briefly described.
The document discusses the importance of "education-supporting research" (ESR) for developing Norway's innovation capability in information and communication technology (ICT). It defines ESR as research that supports and strengthens higher education quality, recruitment, relevance, and strategic development. The document argues that ESR has been crucial for establishing many of Norway's most important ICT innovation successes. It recommends that future public ICT research funding place a strong emphasis on ESR to sustain Norway's global position in ICT innovation and ensure sufficient innovation capability. The document also recommends setting targets to increase the number of PhD students in ICT and ensure a significant portion of their education is integrated into research projects.
This document provides an overview of the ORCHID fundamental research project, a collaboration between Caltech and universities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada, funded by DARPA. The project aims to advance the field of optomechanics, using light to manipulate mechanical devices at the nanoscale. It has produced some milestone experimental findings despite challenges of multi-university collaboration. Key coordination mechanisms that supported the virtual organization included graduate student exchanges, face-to-face meetings, and facilitation from the DARPA program manager. The experience offers insights into managing multi-organizational collaboration for fundamental research.
D01L09 M Trajanovic - Mobilty of Researchers in SerbiaSEENET-MTP
The document discusses proposed changes and additions to Serbia's Strategy for Science and Development. It focuses on promoting researcher mobility, both within Serbia and abroad, through improved collaboration between universities/institutes, tax incentives for private sector employment, and programs engaging the Serbian scientific diaspora. It also addresses improving career development opportunities and transparency in hiring/funding processes, with an emphasis on early career researchers and participation of foreign experts.
The History of Industrialization & Innovation Group (HIIVA) at Aalto University School of Engineering conducts research on the history of technopolitics, industrialization, and their interaction with political and ideological developments. The group's research focuses on five main areas: the role of industrialization in terrorism's spread; the "9/11 effect" and the security-industrial complex; the decline of East-West trade and Finnish shipbuilding; the use of scale models in engineering education; and digital topic modeling methods. The group was established in 2013 under Professor Mats Fridlund and currently has four members.
Krzysztof Krzysztofiak: Krakow Technology Park innovation support system: fr...CUBCCE Conference
The presentation will present KTP complex system of innovation and business support that creatively adapted many recognized tools and methodologies, from special economic zone which was the first area of our activity, via technology park and incubation to living lab and other user-driven innovation concepts. The background is drawn by the evolution of regional innovation policy strategies and socioeconomic changes in Poland as Malopolska (Krakow) region.
The Energy Science Center of ETH Zürich is an interdisciplinary network of over 40 research groups across 11 departments focused on energy research and education. It aims to facilitate collaboration between ETH and industry/society through strategic research, education programs like the Master in Energy Science and Technology, and stakeholder engagement. The Center is led by a Managing Board and Director and advises ETH on energy research and education strategies through interdisciplinary working groups.
International Conference for Research in Management & EngineeringVish789
International Conference for Research in Management & Engineering (INCORME)
Conference Dates: 16 - 18 August 2016
Venue: Brunel University, London, United Kingdom
Multi-Channel ConvNet Approach to Predict the Risk of In-Hospital Mortality f...Mahmoud Elbattah
Presented at International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA) 2020
https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=1HSktBRmyxE=
Authors:
Fabien Viton, Mahmoud Elbattah, Jean-Luc Guérin, Gilles Dequen
Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France
mahmoud.elbattah@u-picardie.fr
European Data Science Academy - Enabling Data Driven Digital EuropePersontyle
The ‘Age of Data’ continues to thrive, with data being produced from all industries at a phenomenal rate that introduces numerous challenges regarding the collection, storage and analysis of this data. To address this problem, the European Data Science Academy (EDSA) will establish a virtuous learning production cycle for Data Science.
To learn more about the project visit: http://edsa-project.eu/
Architectural competitions are no longer simply professional praxis for
architects and a recurrent exercise for students at schools of architecture. The competition has also turned into a field of research, and this
book is part of an effort constituting the architectural competition as a field
for studies with scholarly claims. The first doctoral dissertations on competitions were presented in the 1990s in Europe. Another clear manifestation of
research interest is the growth and spread of scholarly conferences on architectural competitions.
The contributions to the book show in a convincing way that the architectural competition is an interesting and rewarding object for research. The
competition processes bear rich empirical findings to which one may refer for
knowledge about architecture as professional practice, as educational subject
and research platform. The architectural competition illustrates processes
of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it
shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative,
creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.
In this session, the concept of technology exaptation is introduced. With examples and descriptions, it is argued that exaptation can be a valuable approach to consider new applications for existing technology projects.
This is a session done with the University of Lorraine, Nancy, in 2021.
In this presentation we introduce some aspects that are relevant for technology entrepreneurship. The focus is on explaining why it matters how entrepreneurs make decisions, i.e. how important it is to reduce biases. We also discuss the importance of being aware of the commercialization choices, and how the presence of incumbents or established industrial players has to be taken into account when making these choices. Finally, we discuss how a market or industry view helps to frame decisions that take into account the implications for the emergence of an industry that can contribute in the further development of the new tech-based company.
Examples are used to illustrate these choices, with a specific focus on the renewable energy and the drone industry.
D01L08 F Stoeckel - Research in Germany and DAAD Partnership ProgrammesSEENET-MTP
The document summarizes key aspects of the German research landscape including major research institutions, industrial research contributions, expenditures, and current initiatives to promote research excellence and internationalization. It also describes the "Research in Germany - Land of Ideas" initiative aimed at promoting Germany as a top location for research through regional and topic-focused campaigns, events, and online resources. Scholarship and funding opportunities for international students through organizations like DAAD are also outlined.
ICT and Horizon 2020, Iddo Bante 2013-08-22Iddo Bante
This document provides an overview of the Horizon 2020 framework program for research and innovation from 2014-2020. Key points include:
- Horizon 2020 has a budget of €70.2 billion, focusing on excellent science, industrial leadership, and societal challenges.
- ICT is addressed under the industrial leadership priority, with an estimated budget of €8-9 billion. This focuses on areas like future internet, cloud computing, robotics, microelectronics, and photonics.
- Public-private partnerships (PPPs) will play an important role in implementing ICT and other industry-related activities. Both existing and new PPPs are outlined.
- The goals are to strengthen European leadership in key technologies,
Jornada informativa organizada el 24 de octubre de 2017 sobre las convocatorias del European Research Council (ERC) dentro del Programa Marco Europeo Horizonte 2020. El evento, celebrado en la Casa de la Ciencia (CSIC), fue organizado por la Agencia Andaluza del Conocimiento en colaboración con el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas y el MINEICO.
"European cooperation in science and technology - COST actions" - Maria Morag...SEENET-MTP
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is an intergovernmental framework established in 1971 to enable coordination of nationally funded research. It supports networking of researchers through Actions involving meetings, conferences, workshops and other activities. Researchers from COST members, neighboring countries and international partners can participate in COST's 328 running Actions involving over 30,000 researchers annually. COST receives EUR 300 million from the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 to support excellence in transnational cooperation and networking in research and innovation.
The document summarizes the European Research Council's IDEAS program, which funds frontier research projects led by independent investigators. Key points include:
- It supports individual research teams without the need for transnational partnerships. Projects can be in new or emerging fields.
- Principal Investigators of any nationality can apply for Starting or Advanced Grants of up to 1.5 million Euros over 2-10 years.
- Evaluation considers the excellence of the PI and research project, as well as the research environment hosting the project. Only the most ambitious, ground-breaking projects are funded.
Horizon 2020 strengthening the contribution of jordan in the health sectorn d...SRTD _ II
This document provides information about Horizon 2020 and how to successfully apply for funding. It discusses the main pillars of Horizon 2020 including excellent science, industrial leadership, and societal challenges like health, demographic change and wellbeing. It provides examples of funded projects and application deadlines. The document concludes with recommendations for Jordan to strengthen its contribution, such as focusing on centers of excellence, talents, and innovative enterprises, as well as establishing strategic partnerships and contacts with the European Commission.
This document summarizes a study commissioned by the EPA on opportunities for Irish researchers to participate in the Horizon 2020 topic "SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems". The study mapped relevant research excellence and consortiums in Ireland and Europe. It identified 83 relevant projects across databases, including 20 Horizon 2020 projects and 63 FP7 projects. The study found that Irish researchers have been involved in 3 Earth observation projects under Horizon 2020 and 5 under FP7. The document outlines key disciplines and skills needed to develop novel in-situ observation systems and respond to challenges in this area.
A guide to ICT-related activities in WP2016-17Open Concept
Przewodnik Komisji Europejskiej, „A guide to ICT-related activities in WP2016-17” - czyli jak aplikować o środki w dziedzinie ICT w Programie Horyzont 2020.
This document provides an overview of the Horizon 2020 program and funding opportunities for engineering projects. It discusses the main pillars and societal challenges covered by Horizon 2020, including key enabling technologies. Specific examples are given of funded projects involving universities and companies in Northern Ireland, such as in composite materials, sustainable concrete, and low impact solvents. Upcoming calls and events are also listed, such as the NMP call on January 19th and the EuroNanoForum conference in June 2017. National funding opportunities through the Innovation Voucher program are briefly described.
The document discusses the importance of "education-supporting research" (ESR) for developing Norway's innovation capability in information and communication technology (ICT). It defines ESR as research that supports and strengthens higher education quality, recruitment, relevance, and strategic development. The document argues that ESR has been crucial for establishing many of Norway's most important ICT innovation successes. It recommends that future public ICT research funding place a strong emphasis on ESR to sustain Norway's global position in ICT innovation and ensure sufficient innovation capability. The document also recommends setting targets to increase the number of PhD students in ICT and ensure a significant portion of their education is integrated into research projects.
This document provides an overview of the ORCHID fundamental research project, a collaboration between Caltech and universities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada, funded by DARPA. The project aims to advance the field of optomechanics, using light to manipulate mechanical devices at the nanoscale. It has produced some milestone experimental findings despite challenges of multi-university collaboration. Key coordination mechanisms that supported the virtual organization included graduate student exchanges, face-to-face meetings, and facilitation from the DARPA program manager. The experience offers insights into managing multi-organizational collaboration for fundamental research.
This document discusses co-funding mechanisms for international cooperation on research and innovation between the European Union and several other countries. Specifically, it mentions:
1. Co-funding mechanisms covering all or selected Horizon 2020 themes with countries like Korea, Mexico, Russia, Taiwan, Australia, China, India, and Japan.
2. Co-funding for specific regions in Brazil and Canada.
3. National contact point support available in New Zealand and the USA.
It provides details on funding organizations, requirements, deadlines, and contacts in each country.
Laboratorio "SMART PUGLIA: Verso la strategia di specializzazione intelligent...FormezPA - Capacity SUD
Il progetto Capacity SUD ha la finalità di migliorare la capacità istituzionale delle amministrazioni regionali aiutandole a programmare interventi che rispondano alle loro esigenze prioritarie e a dotarsi delle competenze, degli strumenti e delle tecnologie necessarie per la loro efficace attuazione. La capacità istituzionale, oltre a fornire un supporto strategico per una gestione maggiormente efficiente dei PO, assume un rilievo fondamentale in prospettiva della programmazione comunitaria nel quadro di Europa 2020.
Website: capacitaistituzionale.formez.it
The EOSC Future project coordinates five European Science Clusters that connect major research infrastructures to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The Science Clusters provide FAIR data and services to research communities in environmental sciences, life sciences, physical sciences and astronomy, materials science, and social sciences and humanities. They make cluster services available across disciplines and help researchers practice open science in EOSC through open data archives, computing and networking resources. The Science Clusters aim to sustainably support interdisciplinary research on issues like climate change and pandemics. They request basic and user-friendly services from EOSC to ensure it is a reliable and usable platform for the long term.
"What it is? How it works?" - Giorgio RossiSEENET-MTP
At the second CEI – SEENET- MTP Workshop “Promotion of physics in the CEI countries and Integrating Access to Research Infrastructures in Europe", Sofia, Bulgaria, 23-25 November 2014
ESCAPE cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics RIs,EOSC-hub project
The ESCAPE project received €15.98 million in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme to connect major European astrophysics and particle physics research infrastructures (ESFRI projects) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The 31 partners in ESCAPE include 7 ESFRI projects as well as CERN and ESO. The project aims to address open science challenges around handling and sharing large datasets, establish interoperability within EOSC, and implement common approaches and standards. It consists of 6 work packages focused on areas like data infrastructure, software repositories, virtual observatories, and citizen science.
This document provides a structural analysis of the offshore wind innovation systems in the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany. It examines the key actors, networks, institutions, and infrastructure components that make up each system. The analysis focuses on identifying the main governmental agencies, knowledge institutions, educational organizations, industrial actors, and support organizations involved in each country's offshore wind sector. It also maps the knowledge networks, lobbying networks, and industrial collaborations that connect actors within each national system. Finally, it describes some of the policies, regulations, expectations, and physical infrastructure supporting offshore wind development across the four countries. The goal of this structural analysis is to understand the composition and interconnections of each innovation system as a foundation for a subsequent functional
ESCAPE Kick-off meeting - Welcome (Feb 2019)ESCAPE EU
The document discusses the ESCAPE project, which is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. ESCAPE aims to connect major European research infrastructures in astronomy and particle physics with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It involves 7 European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures projects, 2 international organizations (CERN and ESO), and other partners. The project seeks to improve access to data and tools, facilitate access to resources for data-driven science, and adopt common approaches to data management. It has a budget of 15.98 million euros and will last 42 months.
The document summarizes the Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP). It was established in 2003 with participants from several Balkan countries to provide institutional capacity building in mathematical and theoretical physics. It has grown to include over 450 individual members from 15 full network nodes and 8 other network nodes across Southeastern Europe. Over the past 15 years, the SEENET-MTP has realized over 18 projects, held 30 network meetings, facilitated over 300 exchanges, and generated over 225 joint scientific papers and 15 publications. The network continues to promote research collaboration in mathematical and theoretical physics across the region.
Milan Milošević "The shape of Fe Kα line emitted from relativistic accretion ...SEENET-MTP
The document discusses simulations of the Fe Kα emission line from accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Ray tracing simulations in Kerr spacetime were used to model the line profiles for different black hole spins, disk radii, inclinations, and emissivity profiles. Relativistic effects like Doppler shifts and gravitational redshift distort the line profiles. Comparisons with observed profiles can determine SMBH properties like mass and spin, providing insights into plasma physics and strong gravity near AGN.
This document discusses nonlocal cosmology and modifications to Einstein's theory of gravity. It presents three cases of nonlocal modified gravity models:
1. When P(R)=R and Q(R)=R, nonsingular bounce cosmological solutions were found with scale factor a(t)=a0(σeλt+τe-λt).
2. When P(R)=R-1 and Q(R)=R, several power-law cosmological solutions were obtained, including a(t)=a0|t-t0|α.
3. For the case P(R)=Rp and Q(R)=Rq, the trace and 00 equations of motion were transformed into an equivalent
Dragoljub Dimitrijević "Tachyon Inflation in the RSII Framework"SEENET-MTP
This document summarizes research on tachyon inflation in an anti-de Sitter (AdS) braneworld framework. The researchers study a tachyon field on a dynamical 3-brane embedded in a 5-dimensional AdS bulk spacetime. They derive the equations of motion for the tachyon field and radion field in this braneworld cosmology. Dimensionless equations are obtained and numerical results show that the model can produce over 60 e-folds of inflation with observable parameters consistent with current data. The analysis provides a novel mechanism for tachyon inflation distinct from standard 4D models, with predictions depending on only one free parameter related to the AdS curvature scale.
Vesna Borka Jovanović "Constraining Scalar-Tensor gravity models by S2 star o...SEENET-MTP
This document summarizes research that uses observations of S-star orbits around the Galactic Center to constrain scalar-tensor gravity models. The authors simulate orbits of the S2 star in scalar-tensor potentials and compare them to observations. They find that certain scalar-tensor parameters produce a better fit to the observed S2 star orbit than Newtonian gravity. In particular, they identify ranges of scalar-tensor coupling constants and self-interaction strengths that are consistent with the orbital precession and trajectory of S2. This allows them to test scalar-tensor theories of gravity using stellar dynamics near the Galactic Center.
Elena Mirela Babalic "Generalized alpha-attractor models for hyperbolic surfa...SEENET-MTP
This document discusses generalized two-field α-attractor models of inflation where the scalar manifold is any hyperbolic surface rather than just the Poincaré disk. It introduces uniformization techniques to study trajectories on such surfaces by lifting them to the Poincaré half-plane and projecting back. Near the ends of non-compact surfaces, trajectories typically follow spiral paths around ideal points. The document focuses on geometrically finite hyperbolic surfaces and potentials that are well-behaved at the ends.
Mihai Visinescu "Action-angle variables for geodesic motion on resolved metri...SEENET-MTP
This document discusses complete integrability on various geometries related to the Sasaki-Einstein space T1,1:
1. The geodesic flow on T1,1 space itself is completely integrable, with the Hamiltonian depending on conjugate momenta and conserved quantities like total angular momenta.
2. On the metric cone over T1,1, the geodesic flow separates into independent radial and angular parts. The angular part can be formulated using action-angle variables while the radial part involves unbounded motion.
3. For the resolved metric cone, which involves deformations or resolutions of the conical singularity, the complete integrability structure carries over by extending the action-angle
Sabin Stoica "Double beta decay and neutrino properties"SEENET-MTP
Double beta decay and its potential to explore beyond Standard Model physics was summarized. Double beta decay is the rarest nuclear decay measured, where a nucleus transforms into another nucleus with the same mass but a change of two units in nuclear charge. It can occur even if single beta decay is forbidden. There are two types of double beta decay processes - two neutrino double beta decay (2νββ) and neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). 0νββ decay has the potential to provide information about neutrino properties like mass hierarchy and explore beyond Standard Model physics by constraining parameters associated with different mechanisms that could contribute to 0νββ. Challenges include accurately calculating nuclear matrix elements and reducing background in experiments searching
Yurri Sitenko "Boundary effects for magnetized quantum matter in particle and...SEENET-MTP
This document discusses boundary conditions for quantized spinor matter fields and their impact on physical systems. It proposes a general boundary condition for spinor fields that ensures the self-adjointness of the Dirac Hamiltonian operator. This boundary condition confines the spinor matter inside spatial boundaries. The condition reduces to the MIT bag boundary condition in a specific case. Quantized spinor fields obeying this boundary condition can be used to study phenomena in hot dense magnetized matter found in particle physics and astrophysics.
Predrag Milenović "Physics potential of HE/HL-LHC and future circular"SEENET-MTP
The document discusses latest Higgs boson physics results from the LHC and prospects for physics performance at the HL-LHC. Key results presented include measurements of the Higgs boson mass, production cross sections and branching ratios using H→4l and H→γγ decay channels. Differential measurements are also shown. First direct evidence is reported for ttH production in multilepton final states with a significance of 3.3σ. The increased luminosity of the HL-LHC is expected to improve measurements and search sensitivity.
Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić "Matter Fields in SO(2,3)⋆ Model of Noncommutative ...SEENET-MTP
This document summarizes a talk given at a workshop on field theory and the early universe. The talk discussed a model of noncommutative gravity based on an SO(2,3) gauge theory. Key points:
1) The model treats gravity as an SO(2,3) gauge theory that is spontaneously broken to SO(1,3), relating it to general relativity. An action is constructed and expanded to obtain corrections from noncommutativity.
2) Adding matter fields like spinors and U(1) gauge fields yields modified actions and propagators with corrections depending on the noncommutativity tensor.
3) As an example, the noncommutative Landau problem is solved, giving
Zvonimir Vlah "Lagrangian perturbation theory for large scale structure forma...SEENET-MTP
This document discusses using Lagrangian perturbation theory and the effective field theory (EFT) approach to model large-scale structure (LSS) formation, including nonlinear effects. Key points include:
- The Lagrangian framework tracks fluid elements as they move due to gravity, described by a displacement field. This allows modeling of shell crossing nonlinearities.
- The EFT approach introduces a stress tensor to account for short-distance effects on long-wavelength modes. Counterterms are included to absorb uncertainties from neglected short-scale physics.
- Power spectrum and correlation function results from the Lagrangian EFT approach match those of the standard Eulerian EFT approach. The Lagrangian approach provides insights into counterterm structures and infrared resummation
Vitaly Vanchurin "General relativity from non-equilibrium thermodynamics of q...SEENET-MTP
1) The document proposes that general relativity can emerge from quantum mechanics in the limit of many degrees of freedom, similar to how thermodynamics emerges from classical mechanics with many particles.
2) It suggests defining statistical ensembles over wave functions using an "infoton field" to obtain a spatially covariant description of quantum information, represented by an information tensor.
3) A dual theory description of computational complexity is developed using the infoton field, arriving at a Klein-Gordon theory with an inverse metric related to computational parameters like the number of qubits. This provides a space-time covariant description of quantum computation.
Sergey Sibiryakov "Galactic rotation curves vs. ultra-light dark matter: Impl...SEENET-MTP
The document discusses ultra-light dark matter and its implications for galactic rotation curves. It begins by providing theoretical background on ultra-light dark matter and how it can form soliton cores within dark matter halos. It then discusses how the properties of these soliton cores, such as their mass and size, relate to the properties of the ultra-light dark matter particle. Finally, it discusses how measurements of galactic rotation curves could provide insights into ultra-light dark matter models by probing the presence and characteristics of these soliton cores.
Radoslav Rashkov "Integrable structures in low-dimensional holography and cos...SEENET-MTP
This document outlines R.C. Rashkov's presentation on integrable structures in low-dimensional holography and cosmology. The presentation covers several topics: (1) the Möbius structure of entanglement entropy and its relation to dispersionless Toda hierarchies, (2) holographic entanglement entropy of excited states, (3) higher spin holography and higher projective invariants, and (4) bulk reconstruction and its consequences. The presentation also discusses conceptual issues regarding the duality between gravity/string theories and gauge theories, such as how information is encoded in the boundary theory and whether spacetime and gravity can emerge from a boundary theory.
Nikola Godinović "The very high energy gamma ray astronomy"SEENET-MTP
This document discusses using gamma-ray astronomy to study fundamental physics. It outlines how gamma-ray telescopes like IACT arrays and satellites are used to search for dark matter by looking for gamma rays from annihilation. Combining data from Fermi and IACTs like MAGIC improves sensitivity to constrain dark matter models. No evidence of dark matter has been found so far, but future instruments like CTA will provide stronger limits. The document also mentions how gamma-ray observations can probe Lorentz invariance violation and the origin of cosmic rays.
Miroljub Dugić "The concept of Local Time. Quantum-mechanical and cosmologica...SEENET-MTP
This document discusses the concept of local time from quantum mechanical and cosmological perspectives. It provides a historical overview, discussing Schrodinger's work developing the nonstationary wave equation and Hitoshi Kitada's view that both equations are valid when time is altered. The document then examines the Enss' theorem, which establishes a link between time and Hamiltonian through the dynamical evolution of a system. This leads to a new reading of the Enss' theorem and concept of local time - that time is dynamically generated for each system based on its Hamiltonian. Basic elaborations explore properties of local time, including its inherent uncertainty and role in quantum dynamics.
Cemsinan Deliduman "Astrophysics with Weyl Gravity"SEENET-MTP
This document summarizes a presentation on astrophysical aspects of Weyl gravity. It discusses how Weyl gravity may help explain galaxy rotation curves without dark matter by having the Einstein-Hilbert term dominate in the inner region and the Weyl term dominate in the outer region. It also examines gravitational lensing predictions in Weyl gravity. Future directions are proposed such as matching interior and exterior solutions, investigating scale invariance breaking, and applications to other astrophysical problems.
Radu Constantinescu "Scientific research: Excellence in International context"SEENET-MTP
The University of Craiova is located in Craiova, Romania and was founded in 1947. It has over 16,000 students studying across 16 faculties, with the most popular being sciences, economics, and engineering. The university focuses its research efforts on nanosciences, information technology, energy, environment, transport, food and agriculture, and social sciences. It also operates a research hub called INCESA to foster cooperation with industry.
ESA/ACT Science Coffee: Diego Blas - Gravitational wave detection with orbita...Advanced-Concepts-Team
Presentation in the Science Coffee of the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency on the 07.06.2024.
Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE/ICREA)
Title: Gravitational wave detection with orbital motion of Moon and artificial
Abstract:
In this talk I will describe some recent ideas to find gravitational waves from supermassive black holes or of primordial origin by studying their secular effect on the orbital motion of the Moon or satellites that are laser ranged.
PPT on Direct Seeded Rice presented at the three-day 'Training and Validation Workshop on Modules of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Technologies in South Asia' workshop on April 22, 2024.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
3. European strategy forum on
research infrastructures
ESFRI (formed in 2002)
The mission of ESFRI is to support a coherent
and strategy-led approach to policy-making
on research infrastructures in Europe, and
to facilitate multilateral initiatives leading to
the better use and development of research
infrastructures, at EU and international
level.
4. Ms and AS have two delegates
to ESFRI
One - working at the respective ministry of
science or/and technology
One scientist from academia (university or
research institute)
6. FET = future and emerging
technology
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) go
beyond what is known! Visionary thinking
can open up promising avenues towards
powerful new technologies.
The visionary aspects and exploratory
characteristics of FET might make it sound
like a kind of magic, but the mission of FET
is actually very concrete: to turn Europe's
excellent science base into a competitive
advantage.
7. What are advisory groups
for?
Advisory group (AG) experts provide high
quality and timely advice to the Commission
services during the preparation of the
Horizon 2020 work programme.
15 (thematic) +4 (horizontal) AGs
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
8. Thematic advisory groups
Excellence science
1) 'Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)';
2) Marie Skłodowska-Curie
actions on skills,
training and career
development';
3) 'Research
infrastructures
(including
e-Infrastructures)';
'Leadership in enabling
and industrial
technologies’:
4) 'Information and
Communication
Technologies (ICT)’
5)'Nanotechnologies';
'Advanced materials';
'Biotechnology';
Advanced manufacturing
and processing';
6) 'Space';
…… up to 15
10. Three pillars
The Horizon 2020 programme consists of
three core themes or 'pillars':
Excellent science
Industrial leadership
Societal challenges
11. Excellent Science
(Physics)
- FET = future and emerging technology
- Focus should be put in applying for Marie
Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) and
European Research Council (ERC)
fellowships. These account for 25% of
Horizon2020 funding (17,55 B euros).
- Research Infrastructures grants should also
be a great focus of the community (3,23%
of the Horizon2020 budget, i.e. 2,27 B
euros).
12. However
The Physics community should NOT ignore
opportunities that can be presented in the
other two pillars (Industrial leadership,
Societal challenges), since Pillar 1 is
less than a third of Horizon2020
Applying for calls in the other two Pillars
will require enhanced efforts in
networking with industry (in the case of
Pillar 2) and with scientists from other
disciplines (in the case of Pillar 3).
13. Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET, Pillar 1)
Specific challenge: Supporting a large set of early
stage, high risk visionary science and technology
collaborative research projects is necessary for the
successful exploration of new foundations for
radically new future technologies. Nurturing fragile
ideas requires an agile, risk-friendly and highly
interdisciplinary research approach, expanding well
beyond the strictly technological disciplines.
Recognising and stimulating the driving role of new
high-potential actors in research and innovation,
such as women, young researchers and high-tech
SMEs, is also important for nurturing the scientific
and industrial leaders of the future.
Scope: Proposals are sought for collaborative
research
14. Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT, Pillar 2)
ICT calls
Sensor networks in hostile environments
Low radioactivity tracing
Photonics: Photodetectors (large area, small
pixels) // Extreme photonics (lasers/mirrors)
Cryogenic detectors (MKIDs, TES)
Materials of extreme radiopurity
Space
15. Work Programmes
2014-2015 (almost no changes)
2016-2017 (under strategic discussions)
2018-2019
2020
Hadron Physics: 3 categories of
activities:
• networking
• transnational access and/or service
• joint research
16. Networking activities -
Physics
1. MAN: Management of the
Consortium
2. THURIC: Theory of Ultra
Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collisions
3. ENCstudy: Feasibility
study foran
electron-nucleon collider
in Europe
4. EPOS:Exciting Physics Of
Strong Interactions
5. MesonNet: Meson Physics
in Low-Energy QCD
6. SPHERE: Strange ParOcles
in HadronicEnvironment
Research in Europe
7. FAIRnet: A worldwide
research networking
activity forexperiments
on QCD at FAIR
8. SaporeGravis: Heavy
flavouredprobes of
deconfined QCD matter
9. LEANNIS: Low-energy
antikaon-nucleon and
-nucleiinteraction studies
10. Lattice QCD: Lattice
Quantum Chromodynamics
17. Flagships
internal calls
Graphene
The Graphene Flagship brings together an
academic-industrial consortium aiming at a
breakthrough for technological innovation.
Human Brain Project
The HBP will develop six ICT platforms, dedicated
respectively to Neuroinformatics, Brain
Simulation, High Performance Computing,
Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing
and Neurorobotics. In all cases, the platforms
will build on existing capabilities, some but not
all developed by the HBP partners.