Common use of Consortium as a whole Clause in Contracts

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 Parliament. • APO’s experience of web and print design and new media will be crucial in further developing the GridCafé website and interactive content. As the site’s original designer, APO is in a unique position to build on its strengths and add new and innovative content, as well as to develop the GridCast and GridGuide sites. This project will also provide the opportunity for a small company to continue to develop its activities and personnel, and engage with international partners who could become future customers. APO’s print design experience is also essential for producing eye-catching and engaging GridBriefings and marketing materials for iSGTW and the e-ScienceTalk project itself. • Imperial College designed and built the Real Time Monitor for GridPP and will bring essential technical expertise to the consortium. The RTM demonstrates the global reach of grid computing in a highly visual and engaging way. Bringing Imperial College into the e-ScienceTalk consortium will greatly enhance the co-development of the Real Time Monitor and the GridGuide, smoothing the communication between the GridGuide and RTM developers. Imperial College is also a major centre for grid dissemination and e-Science in the UK in its own right. • CERN is a well-known centre for grid communications and has hosted the editor of iSGTW since the publication’s launch. CERN has also managed the EGEE’s dissemination activities throughout all three phases of the project. CERN’s position at the hub of many grid projects, including the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid, puts it in an excellent position to source and share contacts, dissemination materials and success stories, which is vital for the continued success of iSGTW as well as the other e-ScienceTalk products. CERN also attracts high profile visitors from governments, business, funding agencies and international projects who will be exposed to presentations, events and materials from e-ScienceTalk. In addition, the e-ScienceTalk consortium will work in collaboration with numerous grid and e-Infrastructure projects throughout Europe and beyond − without this close collaboration there would be no possibility of delivering the work programme. Plans for ways to collaborate with these projects have been included throughout the document and are also summarised below. Also included is a non-exhaustive list of the projects that have expressed an interest in working with e-ScienceTalk. Some of the projects have also provided formal Letters of Support, which are included in Annex 1. i) Sub-contracting: Some minor items such as printing services and logistical services relating to the organisation of the e- concertation meetings will be sub-contracted and the costs are expected to be minor. Xenomedia will deliver through a sub-contract for €14K the upgrade and redesign of the content management system underlying the iSGTW website.The current CMS is a proprietary system that will no longer be supported beyond 2010. The company is contracted by Fermilab to provide long term web hosting and day-to-day technical support and maintenance to the current iSGTW website, as well as other Fermilab websites, such as Symmetry. The website CMS will be upgraded as a one-off development by Xenomedia during the opening months of e-ScienceTalk. The cost of this development work will be shared equally between GridTalk and Fermilab and OSG who also fund the US Editor post for iSGTW. Once the development work is complete, Xenomedia will continue to provide daily web support, security patching and web hosting for the iSGTW website throughout the e-ScienceTalk project, funded entirely by Fermilab at no cost to e-ScienceTalk. ii) Other countries: None of the partner institutes are based outside the EU Member states or Associated countries. However, iSGTW is currently funded jointly with the US Open Science Grid, and GridCafé has been translated in partnership with collaborators from non-EU countries.

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 Parliament. • APO’s experience of web and print design and new media will be crucial in further developing the GridCafé website and interactive content. As the site’s original designer, APO is in a unique position to build on its strengths and add new and innovative content, as well as to develop the GridCast and GridGuide sites. This project will also provide the opportunity for a small company to continue to develop its activities and personnel, and engage with international partners who could become future customers. APO’s print design experience is also essential for producing eye-catching and engaging GridBriefings and marketing materials for iSGTW and the e-ScienceTalk project itself. • Imperial College designed and built the Real Time Monitor for GridPP and will bring essential technical expertise to the consortium. The RTM demonstrates the global reach of grid computing in a highly visual and engaging way. Bringing Imperial College into the e-ScienceTalk consortium will greatly enhance the co-development of the Real Time Monitor and the GridGuide, smoothing the communication between the GridGuide and RTM developers. Imperial College is also a major centre for grid dissemination and e-Science in the UK in its own right. • CERN is a well-known centre for grid communications and has hosted the editor of iSGTW since the publication’s launch. CERN has also managed the EGEE’s dissemination activities throughout all three phases of the project. CERN’s position at the hub of many grid projects, including the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid, puts it in an excellent position to source and share contacts, dissemination materials and success stories, which is vital for the continued success of iSGTW as well as the other e-ScienceTalk products. CERN also attracts high profile visitors from governments, business, funding agencies and international projects who will be exposed to presentations, events and materials from e-ScienceTalk. In addition, the e-ScienceTalk consortium will work in collaboration with numerous grid and e-Infrastructure projects throughout Europe and beyond − without this close collaboration there would be no possibility of delivering the work programme. Plans for ways to collaborate with these projects have been included throughout the document and are also summarised below. Also included is a non-exhaustive list of the projects that have expressed an interest in working with e-ScienceTalk. Some of the projects have also provided formal Letters of Support, which are included in Annex 1. i) Sub-contracting: Some minor items such as printing services and logistical services relating to the organisation of the e- concertation meetings will be sub-contracted and the costs are expected to be minor. Xenomedia will deliver through a sub-contract for €14K the upgrade and redesign of the content management system underlying the iSGTW website.The current CMS is a proprietary system that will no longer be supported beyond 2010. The company is contracted by Fermilab to provide long term web hosting and day-to-day technical support and maintenance to the current iSGTW website, as well as other Fermilab websites, such as Symmetry. The website CMS will be upgraded as a one-off development by Xenomedia during the opening months of e-ScienceTalk. The cost of this development work will be shared equally between GridTalk and Fermilab and OSG who also fund the US Editor post for iSGTWiSGTW until the end of the current phase of OSG funding in April 2012. Once the development work is complete, Xenomedia will continue to provide daily web support, security patching and web hosting for the iSGTW website throughout the e-e- ScienceTalk project, funded entirely by Fermilab at no cost to e-ScienceTalk. ii) Other countries: None ScienceTalk until the end of September 2012. For support of the partner institutes are based outside weekly publication of iSGTW after the EU Member states or Associated countriesOSG funding commitment to iSGTW ends in April 2012, 2K Euros will be allocated for freelance writing support. HoweverIn addition, web hosting for the iSGTW website will be moved to QMUL in March 2012, with hosting costs to be provided as an in-kind support to the project. Technical support for the OpenPublish Drupal CMS is currently funded jointly with not available within the US Open Science Gride-ScienceTalk consortium and 1K Euros per month will be allocated to allow Xenomedia to continue basic maintenance and bug fixing in the website from October 2012 until May 2013, and GridCafé has been translated in partnership with collaborators from non-EU countriestotal 8K Euros.

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 Parliament. • APO’s experience of web and print design and new media will be crucial in further developing the GridCafé website and interactive content. As the site’s original designer, APO is in a unique position to build on its strengths and add new and innovative content, as well as to develop the GridCast and GridGuide sites. This project will also provide the opportunity for a small company to continue to develop its activities and personnel, and engage with international partners who could become future customers. APO’s print design experience is also essential for producing eye-catching and engaging GridBriefings and marketing materials for iSGTW and the e-ScienceTalk project itself. • Imperial College designed and built the Real Time Monitor for GridPP and will bring essential technical expertise to the consortium. The RTM demonstrates the global reach of grid computing in a highly visual and engaging way. Bringing Imperial College into the e-ScienceTalk consortium will greatly enhance the co-development of the Real Time Monitor and the GridGuide, smoothing the communication between the GridGuide and RTM developers. Imperial College is also a major centre for grid dissemination and e-Science in the UK in its own right. • CERN is a well-known centre for grid communications and has hosted the editor of iSGTW since the publication’s launch. CERN has also managed the EGEE’s dissemination activities throughout all three phases of the project. CERN’s position at the hub of many grid projects, including the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid, puts it in an excellent position to source and share contacts, dissemination materials and success stories, which is vital for the continued success of iSGTW as well as the other e-ScienceTalk products. CERN also attracts high profile visitors from governments, business, funding agencies and international projects who will be exposed to presentations, events and materials from e-ScienceTalk. In addition, the e-ScienceTalk consortium will work in collaboration with numerous grid and e-Infrastructure projects throughout Europe and beyond − without this close collaboration there would be no possibility of delivering the work programme. Plans for ways to collaborate with these projects have been included throughout the document and are also summarised below. Also included is a non-exhaustive list of the projects that have expressed an interest in working with e-ScienceTalk. Some of the projects have also provided formal Letters of Support, which are included in Annex 1. i) Sub-contracting: Some minor items such as printing services and logistical services relating to the organisation of the e- concertation meetings will be sub-contracted and the costs are expected to be minor. . Xenomedia will deliver through a sub-contract for €14K the upgrade and redesign of the content management system underlying the iSGTW website.The current CMS is a proprietary system that will no longer be supported beyond 2010. The company is contracted by Fermilab to provide long term web hosting and day-to-day technical support and maintenance to the current iSGTW website, as well as other Fermilab websites, such as Symmetry. The website CMS will be upgraded as a one-off development by Xenomedia during the opening months of e-ScienceTalk. The cost of this development work will be shared equally between GridTalk and Fermilab and OSG who also fund the US Editor post for iSGTWiSGTW until the end of the current phase of OSG funding in April 2012. Once the development work is complete, Xenomedia will continue to provide daily web support, security patching and web hosting for the iSGTW website throughout the e-e- ScienceTalk project, funded entirely by Fermilab at no cost to e-ScienceTalk. ii) Other countries: None ScienceTalk until the end of September 2012. For support of the partner institutes are based outside weekly publication of iSGTW after the EU Member states or Associated countriesOSG funding commitment to iSGTW ends in April 2012, 10K Euros will be allocated for freelance writing support. HoweverIn addition, web hosting for the iSGTW website will be moved to QMUL in March 2012, with hosting costs to be provided as an in-kind support to the project. A dedicated server will be purchased for 3K. Technical support for the OpenPublish Drupal CMS is currently funded jointly with not available within the US Open Science Gride-ScienceTalk consortium and 1K Euros per month will be allocated to allow Xenomedia to continue basic maintenance and bug fixing in the website from October 2012 until July 2013, and GridCafé has been translated in partnership with collaborators from non-EU countriestotal 10K Euros.

Consortium as a whole. The e-ScienceTalk core of the project was formed at the unofficial suggestion of the commission when it was suggested that previous independent FP5 projects that had tackled Sign Language recognition (such as CogViSys:UniS), and Sign Language synthesis (such as ViSiCAST:UEA,UHH and eSign:UEA,UHH)should bring their expertise together to tackle the difficult problem of large scale sign language recognition. The consortium consists was formed on the basis of five a long tradition of academic contacts within most of the partners, e.g. through GW and LREC workshops, partially resulting in staff exchange. Joint projects: UHH UEA (EU: ViSiCAST, EU: eSIGN, UK: SignAware) UPS CNRS WebSourd (FR: LS-Script) UHH ATHENA RC (LREC 2008 workshop organisation) XXXXXX RC UEA (UAIS Journal Vol 6, No 4: Special Issue “Emerging Technologies for Deaf Accessibility in the Information Society”. Editors) Whereas partners have gained expertise and exhibit co-operation also within the framework of national projects: German national predecessor projects: various projects on special terminology dictionaries for DGS French projects funded by the ministry of research (IRIT-LIMSI: XX-XXXXX; XXXX-LIMSI-WebSourd: LS- Script; IRIT-Websourd: Internet use). WebSourd: Business opportunity with a national transport company (SNCF), aiming at providing a system displaying information for deaf people. Extent to a pan-European multi sign-language system is investigated. Greek national project DIANOEMA for initiating work on GSL recognition, funded by GSRT-Hellas (ATHENA RC-NTUA/ICCS-Xxxxx) Greek national project SYNENNOESI for initiating work on GSL synthesis, funded by GSRT-Hellas (ATHENA RC-NTUA/ICCS-Systema SA) As regards WebSourd, the commercial partner of the consortium, their motivation and industrial/commercial drivers in the project run as follows: The “accessibility” market is growing worldwide, and especially in France, where a law enforcing companies to offer access to disabled people has been adopted since 2005. Signing avatar technology promises interesting commercial applications, allowing companies to inform their deaf customers (when a list of informative sentences has been predetermined). Multi-lingual aspect: SL-to-SL translators and Sign-Wiki may be used to develop a generic platform of e- learning in SL. Some pieces of software developed within this project could be of great interest when considering the creation of a community-oriented website: sign language analysis and recognition technologies could be used to offer direct sign language communication tools for deaf users (ensuring anonymity of participants and collaborative sign-language content) Also, since the prime motivation is provision of services to a neglected community, success of the aims of Dicta-Sign would facilitate commercially-viable tools for bidirectional communication. Finally, the basic technology to be developed has wider implications for generic HCI. Dicta-Sign aims at developing recognition and synthesis engines for sign languages at a level of detail which is necessary for recognising and generating authentic signing. This cannot be achieved without exploitation of vast linguistic knowledge and coded resources of sign languages. Workpackage distribution reflects the need for interoperability of the different scientific domains involved in this enterprise, where the demanded linguistic knowledge is gathered in the two interrelated workpackages, comprising creation and exploitation of parallel video corpora for four sign languages, along with creation of grammar and lexicon modules to directly feed both recognition and synthesis engines. The two complementary recognition WPs are inter- related with annotation procedures and tools to be developed in a relevant workpackage since sign recognition requires an extensive annotated corpus for training, while annotation tools are necessary for adequate corpus exploitation. Furthermore, sign synthesis also needs an annotated corpus for validation. Integration of the different research outcomes will lead to laboratory prototypes aiming at investigation of the viability of interdisciplinary research targets such as a search-by-example interface to a multilingual lexical database, a domain specific sign language-to-sign language translator and a signWiki facility. The SL-to-SL translator will provide the basis of the project demonstrator, the development of which requires also integration of recognition and synthesis engines. The participant organisations have expertise in all required scientific domains, namely, image processing, sign language recognition and computer vision, 3D animation technologies, sign language linguistics and resources creation and natural language processing, which guarantees coherent project planning implementation, scientific adequacy and creation of new knowledge in all involved domains. Moreover, in order to ensure that research work is lead by and addresses real user communication needs, the commercial partner of the consortium will provide user specifications and execute user evaluation at all stages of prototype development. As previously shown, the key researchers involved in the project demonstrate scientific excellence within their chosen areas. Together they have all the required skills to achieve the project’s objectives. All partners will contribute to workpackages involving both creation of linguistic resources and prototype development. XXXXXX RC will undertake management and will lead development of the project’s demonstrator, UniS will lead the Visual Tracking and Feature Extraction sign recognition workpackage, NTUA will lead the Continuous Sign Recognition, Fusion and Adaptation workpackage, UHH will lead sign language corpora creation, UEA will lead the sign synthesis workpackage as well as work on bidirectional integration, CNRS will lead the linguistic modelling workpackage, UPS will lead the development of sign video annotation tools, while WebSourd, except for user specifications and evaluation, will lead dissemination and exploitation activities. It is acknowledged by the consortium, that a critical risk is that of the possible failure of one of the partners. Although, however, the consortium has been built so that the top specialist in each field is leading the research, for each field we have another partner available who could jump in should the lead partner fail. Partner organisations are fully committed i.e. they have the necessary skills and (managerial, technical, financial) resources available to carry on project work. Also persons named in the Technical Annex will be actively involved from the very beginning of the project. In most cases, these persons are full time academic members of faculty/ research centres. As indicated in Bio’s, they have considerable expertise in FP projects and all managerial, technical and financial aspects required by the project are in place. ATHENA RC is a leading research organisation in Greece with a long record on EU projects. Xx Xxxxxxxxx, who will act as project co-ordinator in Dicta-Sign, has founded and leads the Sign Language Technologies lab. Dr Xxxxxxx is Senior Researcher with extensive experience in communicating grid technology though traditional the domains of Assistive Technology 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 projectsdeaf HCI, as well as EGI’s membership in project co-ordination. She is one of the European E-Infrastructures Forumbasic members of the SLT lab. As a collaboration between an international body (CERN)XXXXXX RC is committed to continue research in recognition, a Dutch foundation (XXX.xx), two universities (QMUL synthesis and Imperial College) and a small-medium sized enterprise (APO), the consortium represents three key facets MT of Europe’s S&T communitysign language. The partners are based in three EU member states (FR, The Netherlands IDGS at UHH is a university institute completely devoted to research on sign language and UK) communication of Deaf people. Corpus work and one Associated Country (CH)sign language technology belong to the key research areas here and contribute much to the institute's international reputation. The consortium members provide complementary areas involvement 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 permanent key personnel from 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 research area bringing much experience in science policy, having worked in the European Parliament. • APO’s experience of web EU projects including ViSiCAST and print design and new media will be crucial in further developing the GridCafé website and interactive content. As the site’s original designer, APO is in a unique position to build on its strengths and add new and innovative content, as well as to develop the GridCast and GridGuide sites. This project will also provide the opportunity for a small company to continue to develop its activities and personnel, and engage with international partners who could become future customers. APO’s print design experience is also essential for producing eye-catching and engaging GridBriefings and marketing materials for iSGTW and the e-ScienceTalk project itself. • Imperial College designed and built the Real Time Monitor for GridPP and will bring essential technical expertise to the consortium. The RTM demonstrates the global reach of grid computing in a highly visual and engaging way. Bringing Imperial College into the e-ScienceTalk consortium will greatly enhance the co-development of the Real Time Monitor and the GridGuide, smoothing the communication between the GridGuide and RTM developers. Imperial College is also a major centre for grid dissemination and e-Science in the UK in its own right. • CERN is a well-known centre for grid communications and has hosted the editor of iSGTW since the publication’s launch. CERN has also managed the EGEE’s dissemination activities throughout all three phases of the project. CERN’s position at the hub of many grid projects, including the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid, puts it in an excellent position to source and share contacts, dissemination materials and success stories, which is vital for the continued success of iSGTW as well as the other e-ScienceTalk products. CERN also attracts high profile visitors from governments, business, funding agencies and international projects who will be exposed to presentations, events and materials from e-ScienceTalk. In addition, the e-ScienceTalk consortium will work in collaboration with numerous grid and e-Infrastructure projects throughout Europe and beyond − without this close collaboration there would be no possibility of delivering the work programme. Plans for ways to collaborate with these projects have been included throughout the document and are also summarised below. Also included is a non-exhaustive list of the projects that have expressed an interest in working with e-ScienceTalk. Some of the projects have also provided formal Letters of Support, which are included in Annex 1. i) Sub-contracting: Some minor items such as printing services and logistical services relating to the organisation of the e- concertation meetings will be sub-contracted and the costs are expected to be minor. Xenomedia will deliver through a sub-contract for €14K the upgrade and redesign of the content management system underlying the iSGTW website.The current CMS is a proprietary system that will no longer be supported beyond 2010. The company is contracted by Fermilab to provide long term web hosting and day-to-day technical support and maintenance to the current iSGTW website, eSIGN as well as other Fermilab websitesinternational cooperations shows UHH's commitment to the project. UEA had a key role in the earlier projects ViSiCAST and eSIGN and, such as Symmetrythrough the involvement of Xxxx Xxxxxxx, UEA is committed to continue research in recognition and synthesis of sign language. The website CMS will be upgraded as Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey is a oneworld class research group and one of the largest of its type in Europe (80+), it covers aspects of computer vision, speech, audio and human animation, all of which are applicable to Dicta-off development by Xenomedia during Sign. Xx Xxxxxx heads the opening months Cognitive Vision group within CVSSP and Xxxx. Xxxxxxx is head of e-ScienceTalkthe Centre. Both are permanent faculty members of the University and have participated in numerous EU projects LIMSI is a CNRS laboratory (CNRS is the main public research centre in France) having a strong experience in European projects. The cost Gesture team involved in Dicta-Sign project is a stable team (8 people: 4 permanents, 1 post-doc and 3 PhD students). UPS-IRIT is a laboratory having a strong experience in European projects. In the TCI team (15 people), the group involved in the Dicta-Sign project (7 people: 3 permanents, 1 post-doc and 3 PhD students) carries out researchs on SL since 8 years. NTUA is a university with a long record on EU projects. Xxxx. Xxxxxxx, the leader of this development work will be shared equally between GridTalk NTUA’s Team in Dicta- Sign, has strong experience with successful EU projects and Fermilab and OSG who also fund the US Editor post for iSGTW. Once the development work is complete, Xenomedia will continue to provide daily web support, security patching and web hosting for the iSGTW website throughout the e-ScienceTalk project, funded entirely by Fermilab at no cost to e-ScienceTalk. ii) Other countries: None of the partner institutes are based outside the EU Member states or Associated countries. However, iSGTW is currently funded jointly can deal with the US Open Science Grid, and GridCafé has been translated in partnership with collaborators from non-EU countries.all research and

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 Parliament. • APO’s experience of web and print design and new media will be crucial in further developing the GridCafé website and interactive content. As the site’s original designer, APO is in a unique position to build on its strengths and add new and innovative content, as well as to develop the GridCast and GridGuide sites. This project will also provide the opportunity for a small company to continue to develop its activities and personnel, and engage with international partners who could become future customers. APO’s print design experience is also essential for producing eye-catching and engaging GridBriefings and marketing materials for iSGTW and the e-ScienceTalk project itself. • Imperial College designed and built the Real Time Monitor for GridPP and will bring essential technical expertise to the consortium. The RTM demonstrates the global reach of grid computing in a highly visual and engaging way. Bringing Imperial College into the e-ScienceTalk consortium will greatly enhance the co-development of the Real Time Monitor and the GridGuide, smoothing the communication between the GridGuide and RTM developers. Imperial College is also a major centre for grid dissemination and e-Science in the UK in its own right. • CERN is a well-known centre for grid communications and has hosted the editor of iSGTW since the publication’s launch. CERN has also managed the EGEE’s dissemination activities throughout all three phases of the project. CERN’s position at the hub of many grid projects, including the WorldWide LHC Computing Grid, puts it in an excellent position to source and share contacts, dissemination materials and success stories, which is vital for the continued success of iSGTW as well as the other e-ScienceTalk products. CERN also attracts high profile visitors from governments, business, funding agencies and international projects who will be exposed to presentations, events and materials from e-ScienceTalk. In addition, the e-ScienceTalk consortium will work in collaboration with numerous grid and e-Infrastructure projects throughout Europe and beyond − without this close collaboration there would be no possibility of delivering the work programme. Plans for ways to collaborate with these projects have been included throughout the document and are also summarised below. Also included is a non-exhaustive list of the projects that have expressed an interest in working with e-ScienceTalk. Some of the projects have also provided formal Letters of Support, which are included in Annex 1. i) Sub-contracting: Some minor items such as printing services and logistical services relating to the organisation of the e- concertation meetings will be sub-contracted and the costs are expected to be minor. Xenomedia will deliver through a sub-contract for €14K the upgrade and redesign of the content management system underlying the iSGTW website.The current CMS is a proprietary system that will no longer be supported beyond 2010. The company is contracted by Fermilab to provide long term web hosting and day-to-day technical support and maintenance to the current iSGTW website, as well as other Fermilab websites, such as Symmetry. The website CMS will be upgraded as a one-off development by Xenomedia during the opening months of e-ScienceTalk. The cost of this development work will be shared equally between GridTalk and Fermilab and OSG who also fund the US Editor post for iSGTW. Once the development work is complete, Xenomedia will continue to provide daily web support, security patching and web hosting for the iSGTW website throughout the e-ScienceTalk project, funded entirely by Fermilab at no cost to e-ScienceTalk. Xenomedia will deliver through a sub-contract for €14K the upgrade and redesign of the content management system underlying the iSGTW website.The current CMS is a proprietary system that will no longer be supported beyond 2010. The company is contracted by Fermilab to provide long term web hosting and day-to-day technical support and maintenance to the current iSGTW website, as well as other Fermilab websites, such as Symmetry. The website CMS will be upgraded as a one-off development by Xenomedia during the opening months of e-ScienceTalk. The cost of this development work will be shared equally between GridTalk and Fermilab and OSG who also fund the US Editor post for iSGTW until the end of the current phase of OSG funding in April 2012. Once the development work is complete, Xenomedia will continue to provide daily web support, security patching and web hosting for the iSGTW website e- ScienceTalk project, funded entirely by Fermilab at no cost to e-ScienceTalk until the end of September 2012. For support of the weekly publication of iSGTW after the OSG funding commitment to iSGTW ends in April 2012, 2K Euros will be allocated for freelance writing support. In addition, web hosting for the iSGTW website will be moved to QMUL in March 2012, with hosting costs to be provided as an in-kind support to the project. Technical support for the OpenPublish Drupal CMS is not available within the e-ScienceTalk consortium and 1K Euros per month will be allocated to allow Xenomedia to continue basic maintenance and bug fixing in the website from October 2012 until May 2013, in total 8K Euros. E-scienceTalk will deliver the logistics for the 8th, 9th and 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation meetings, in November 2010, September 2011 and November 2012 respectively. The 3rd party costs associated with the meetings will be met from e-ScienceTalk funds including security, catering, clearing and venue costs, of up to 40K Euros in total for all 3 meetings. ii) Other countries: None of the partner institutes are based outside the EU Member states or Associated countries. However, iSGTW is currently funded jointly with the US Open Science Grid, and GridCafé has been translated in partnership with collaborators from non-EU countries.