Consortium as a whole. The e-ScienceTalk consortium consists of five partners, all with extensive experience in communicating grid technology though traditional and new media. CERN, QMUL and APO have established a proven track record during GridTalk of delivering successful communications projects aimed at e-ScienceTalk’s target audiences, and will draw on staff with demonstrated skills in these areas. The first year reviewers stated that “The GridTalk project has made excellent progress, even exceeding expections.” E-ScienceTalk will build upon this successful work by these partners in GridTalk, bringing onboard the technical expertise of Imperial College, who also have a strong record in grid dissemination through the e-Science Activity in the High Energy Physics Group. E-ScienceTalk will also bring the project management of the project onboard from XXX.xx, from the CAO/Dissemination Manager, which will allow the project to benefit from close collaboration with the XXX.xx dissemination team, the EGI network of NGIs and EGI-InSPIRE collaborating projects, as well as EGI’s membership of the European E-Infrastructures Forum. As a collaboration between an international body (CERN), a Dutch foundation (XXX.xx), two universities (QMUL and Imperial College) and a small-medium sized enterprise (APO), the consortium represents three key facets of Europe’s S&T community. The partners are based in three EU member states (FR, The Netherlands and UK) and one Associated Country (CH). The consortium members provide complementary areas of expertise, which are reflected in the work packages for which they are responsible: • XXX.xx has the main objective of coordinating pan-European distributed computing activity within Europe on behalf of its stakeholders, NGIs, EIROs, and others. It will be independent of any particular institute or application community and will participate in a wide range of collaborations within Europe and beyond. • QMUL is responsible for dissemination for GridPP, the UK’s particle physics grid. In this role it has developed an award-winning website, overseen the production of successful demonstrations, produced widely-reported press releases and held stands at many grid and computing events. In the policy area, QMUL has produced the series of GridBriefings published during GridTalk, a guide to GridPP for UK policy makers and provided speakers to policy conferences and in Parliament. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx has particular experience in science policy, having worked in the European...
Consortium as a whole. The proposed NEXPReS programme will bundle expertise in radio astronomy and several ICT areas: networking, storage and computing. Building up this formal interdisciplinary structure is probably the most important aspect of the entire program. There already exist a number of structures (including ones that are EC supported) that have expertise in radio-astronomical instruments, focused on existing or future research infrastructures, but the collaboration in (N)EXPReS is unique in the sense that it enforces collaboration between the two domains. We have learned from the past that this formal structure is essential for keeping a focus on the development work and getting support from organizations outside the funded collaboration. The NEXPReS partners will bring together essential crafts for carrying out the work described in the Joint Research and Service Activities. In constructing this distribution of work packages we have had our focus solely on bringing the appropriate talents together. Note that a few organizations contribute to the programme without expecting return from the EC funds. These partners are included in order that their effort contributes formally to the project and to make sure they are represented in the management structure. Furthermore, we expect other partners from the radio astronomy community and NRENs to participate in the network activities. In the past the existence of an EC project in this area has been a catalyst for a large number of such interactions While the project primarily builds on the existing collaborations in traditional VLBI, there is an increasing role for other radio astronomy facilities with a large ICT component. Notably the International LOFAR Telescope (or e- LOFAR) that is currently being commissioned across several European countries, is encountering a number of similar technological issues for its future operations. The facilities already share the same engineering basis and have a largely overlapping user community. Indeed, in some of the forums common problems and common solutions have been discussed in the past. In NEXPReS these ties will only be stronger when operational matters will also start to share the same connectivity infrastructure. This common footing will be an asset for Europe’s role in the SKA. In this project there is a central role for JIVE in managing and implementing most of the Service Activities. This may seem lopsided, but it is in fact very natural. As a joint European facility for VLB...
Consortium as a whole. The I-KAM2EU consortium is made up of all the 7 partners of SME2EU consortium covering the three Italian regions Marche, Tuscany and Umbria: • in Marche: o Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Ascoli Xxxxxx o Compagnia delle Opere Pesaro Urbino • in Tuscany: o PromoFirenze Azienda Xxxxxxxx xxxxx Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Firenze o Confindustria Toscana o Eurosportello Confesercenti • in Umbria: o Centro Estero Umbria o Società regionale per lo sviluppo economico dell’Umbria - Sviluppumbria spa The specific objective of SME2EU project (XXXXX Call for proposals COS-WP2014-2-1) starting on 1 January 2015, is for Enterprise Europe Network services, to provide advice, support and information activities to increase the competitiveness and innovation capacities of European SMEs. All the I-KAM2EU and SME2EU partners also participated in CINEMA project, the Central Italy consortium for the Enterprise Europe Network active until the end of 2014.
Consortium as a whole. The MOLTO Consortium has four partners, of which three are academic and one industrial. The consortium was built with a great care to match the vision of MOLTO and provide the competences needed without too much overlap. The result of the process is a consortium that also covers a representative set of five different countries, diverging both geographically as in terms of language families: Xxxxx-Ugric, Germanic, Romance, and Slavic. An essential question in a multilingual project like MOLTO is to find a sufficient basis of developers and testers for the different languages. Here, the consortium itself comes a long way towards the goal: its key persons alone have proficiency in at least ten languages. More languages are available in the immediate vicinity: in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the coordinating site UGOT alone, 30 nationalities are represented. The main competences and responsibilities of each partner can be summarized as follows: UGOT, University of Gothenburg, Coordinator. UGOT has a leading competence in multilingual grammar formalisms and grammar resources, and the group coordinates the collaborative open- source development of GF. In MOLTO, UGOT is responsible for the design and implementation of grammar development tools (WP2) and the availability of linguistic resources. UGOT also provides technical help in integrating GF with the translation tools (WP3), the Knowledge Engineering (WP4), and statistical methods (WP5). Moreover, UGOT has the leading role in the Cultural Heritage case study, where it builds on its previous competence on the domain, as well as collaboration with Gothenburg City Museum. In WP7, UGOT will develop the grammars needed in the hybrid model. As Coordinator of MOLTO, UGOT has the main responsibility for management (WP1) and dissemination (WP10). UHEL, University of Helsinki. XXXX has competence in human translator training and translation tools, as well as in grammar development and ontologies. UHEL is therefore the main responsible partner for translator’s tools (WP3) and requirements and evaluation (WP9). The group has both research and practical experience with CAT and MT tools (taught Trados tools since 1995), including involvement in national R&D projects where CAT tools have been or are developed (MLIS Lingmachine, Masterin TM/MT system, Multilingual Workbench). The group was also involved in the development of mathematical GF grammars for the WebALT project. UPC, Universitat Politecnic...
Consortium as a whole. One of the main assets of the proposal is the consortium of partner organizations involved in the proposal. Indeed, this consortium includes most of the EU institutions with significant experience and capacity to develop the EU capabilities in all the steps of the nuclear data cycle: detection systems, analysis tools, evaluation tools, models of intermediate and high energy reactions, integral experiments, simulation tools ... and the scientists and professionals capable of developing and using all these tools. This consortium was built based on the experience of the ANDES and the CHANDA projects, including also the capabilities and laboratories required to perform differential measurements, integral experiments and for target preparation (this last one from the network organized within the XXXXXX project). In fact, 29 from the 35 partners of the proposal were already members of XXXXXX. So, the consortium is used to work together and has already demonstrated the complementarity of the partners and the efficiency to achieve the proposed objectives as well as a significant added value for joining the efforts and producing a large number of high- quality results, publications and trained scientists. The consortium includes research teams with considerable expertise in detector developments like CEA (Micromegas, FALSTAF, neutron detectors, LNHB …), CERN (n_TOF, gamma fast detectors …), CIEMAT (for neutron detectors and photon detectors from capture reactions,…), CNRS (GRPD and photon detectors,…), HZDR (large facility and detectors for DDX), JYU (IGISOL), UPC (BELEN), and PTB (laboratory of standards and detectors for DDX). To perform the proposed experiments covering many different reactions, the consortium includes more than 20 partners with specific know-how and capacities. There are partners that operate the experimental facilities (neutron sources or isotope sources and complex experimental setups) needed for the measurements proposed like JRC (Geel), CNRS (Surrogate experiments facilities), CERN (n_TOF), JYU (IGISOL/JYFLTRAP), NPI (CAS), and teams like CEA or USC that will perform experiments in the ILL and FAIR, respectively. In addition, the consortium includes teams with large experience in the analysis of the proposed measurements like CIEMAT (capture measurements on actinides), CNRS (surrogate reactions), CSIC (TAS and decay data), CEA (on many channels), UU and NPI (on n,lxhp), IFIN-HH, NTUA and JRC (on inelastic and n,2n), USE, IST and PTB (on rea...
Consortium as a whole. All partners have expertise relevant to the project. To summarize: MTA SZTAKI Experience with Desktop and Service Grids & coordination of European projects. Useful related new projects: SCI-BUS, where 27 Grid user communities to be supported for 3 years. AlmereGrid First City desktop grid in the world. Good connection to local media channels. Dissemination expertise in several European projects. Green Desktop Grid expertise International Desktop Grid Federation Is the organisation supported by IDGF-SP. Involvement of IDGF in IDGF-SP assures good collaboration and swift take-up of the project results University of Westminster Experience with porting and supporting applications for Desktop Grids and integrated systems. Desktop grid operations at campus level. University of Leiden • Expertise in operating a large Desktop Grid • Experience with addressing kids with volunteer computing Charity Engine Brings aspecial way of involving citizens into the project Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris • was involved in green studies on volunteer computing. Expertise in how to address mass markets. Some of IDGF-SP partners are from the EDGeS/EDGI/DEGISCO consortia (including MTA SZTAKI, AlmereGrid, and UoW) which have already been involved in the application/infrastructure related activities. However, the main goal of this project is to broaden the exploitation of the infrastructure in several ways, that is why the partners have been selected having expertise in several important additional areas that are complementary to each other. In the next table we provide a summary of the main competences needed in the project, and how partners fill those in. Operating Desktop Grids MTA SZTAKI has experience in operating SZTAKI Desktop Grid, AlmereGrid runs a city Grid, UoW has local desktop Grid, LU operates a large Desktop Grid, Charity Engine has started its beta production. There is extensive experience with at least four types of Desktop Grid: campus-wide (local), city-wide, large-scale volunteer, special business-model oriented. Operating connections to other e-Infrastructures (including services Grids and Bridge technologies) MTA SZTAKI operates the main DCI Bridge between BOINC and EMI middleware (gLite/ARC/UNICORE). MTA SZTAKI is a partner of EGI. UoW operates a validated application repository that is used when jobs cross e-Infrastructure boundries There is extensive experience in operating connected e- Infrastructures. Organising international training c...
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Consortium as a whole. More than three quarters of the consortium is already working closely and successfully together in the BalticGrid project. The consortium has been evaluated through the first BalticGrid review where it in the review report is stated about the consortium that it is “A good consortium with a complementary set of partners. A well managed project that has produced a highly motivated team with a good team spirit. Considering the position from which the project started, the consortium has made excellent progress in the first year.” The consortium is put together from leading institutions providing the different skills and capabilities needed. Partners are Universities, Research Institutes and National Research Network providers. Three new partners enter the consortium in this proposal. Two from Belarus, United Institute of Informatics Problems of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (UIIP NASB) and Research Division of Belarusian National Technical University (NICH BNTU) and one partner from Lithuania, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). The two Belarusian partners are leading scientific, computing and networking institutions in their country. UIIP is responsible for XXXXXX the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus research network. UIIP also has a large computing facility compute resources comprising more 700 CPUs. NICH BNTU is a strong independent research organisation that contributes both applications and skill in information technologies to the project. VGTU has contributed already in the BalticGrid project without being a formal partner, primarily by running a site but also by deep knowledge in computing technologies.
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Consortium as a whole. The Consortium consists of 12 EU Member States, either represented by their National Ad- ministration (Ministry) responsible for eHealth, or the Competence Centre. In several cases both types of organizations are beneficiaries to the project. Among the partners 9 are na- tional ministries of health, 16 are national or regional competence centres which have been certified by their respective administration that they have been designated to act on its behalf for the purpose of the pilot, and 2 are other entities for administrative management and rep- resenting industry involvement. Where only a national Competence Centre represents a participating member state, this cen- tre was chosen because it best represents the combined interests of that country in the field of healthcare and pan-European integration of eHealth infrastructures, and because it is the centre most directly involved or charged with indeed realising such structures at the na- tional/regional level. In Spain, also regional centres will be involved. An overview of each beneficiary and their status/role can be found in the table below: Austria NA Ministry of Health, Family and Youth CC Task Force ELGA Belgium n/a Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Czech Republic CC IZIP Denmark NA National Board of Health CC MedCom France NA Ministry of Health CC GIP Dossier Medical Personnel CC Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Germany NA Federal Ministry of Health CC Gematik CC Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik (ISST) CC Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung n/a Empirica Greece CC Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki CC PHARMAXIS S.A. Italy NA Lombardy Region Slovakia CC NHIC Spain NA Ministry of Health and Consumer affairs CC SESCAM - Regional healthcare service of Xxxxxxxx-Xx Xxxxxx CC SAS- Regional healthcare service of Andalucia CC TICSALUT- on behalf of the Regional healthcare service of Cataluña Sweden NA Ministry of Health and Social Affairs CC Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions The Netherlands NA Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport CC NICTIZ United Kingdom NA NHS Connecting for Health This represents an optimally balanced selection of national actors with relevant experience both at the regional/national and at the international level to guarantee best outcomes from this common endeavour to fundamentally improve healthcare services for European citizens when travelling or staying in another country. The consortium also very well repre...
