ERCIM slides

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EU-LAT WinCo Conferencia Mexico D.F. , MEXICO
13-15/04/2005
Binding EU-Latin American IST Research
initiatives for enhancing future co-operation
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EULAT Objetivos

• EU -LAT busca promover la participación de
  grupos de investigación de Latinoamérica en
  proyectos académicos e industriales, en el marco
  del programa de la Sociedad de la Información y
  Tecnología , a cargo de la Comisión Europea.
• Propuestas comunes
• Incrementar las actuales políticas de
  Latinoamérica y la Unión Europea
• el intercambio de jóvenes, de postgrado y
  experimentados investigadores
• Oportunidades de negocio comunes
• Soportar la investigación científica y los grupos
  de IST en América Latina.
• Tres talleres científicos
• México, Cuernavaca e-Health
• Chile, Santiago e-Government
• Costa Rica, San José e-Environment

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Visión General de la Presentación
Esta presentación enfoca tres tópicos
principales
ERCIM Sexto Programa Marco Oportunidades de
Cooperacion para la Investigación Científica
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ERCIMEuropean Research Consortiumfor
Informatics and Mathematics
European Research Consortium for Informatics
and Mathematics
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Miembros
ERCIM es un consorcio de 18 Institutos Europeos
de investigación científica, comprometidos en las
tecnologías de información y en las matemáticas
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Composición de los miembros de ERCIM
Member since 1989 (founding member) 2003
(founding member) 2002 1991 1994 2001 1993 1996 19
94 1990 1992 1989 (founding member) 1998 1992 2000
2002
Member Country INRIA France FhG
(ICT) Germany SpaRCIM Spain NTNU Norway CNR
(IT) Italy SARIT Switzerland AARIT Austria VTT
(IT) Finland CRCIM Czech Republic SZTAKI Hungary C
LRC (IT) United Kingdom FORTH (IT)
Greece CWI The Netherlands SRCIM Slovakia SICS Swe
den TCD Ireland FNR Luxembourg Total
Size 2500 2300 1000 800 600 500 500 450 400
350 300 250 250 250 200 200 150 11,000
Miembros deERCIM EEIG
Estimación de la plantilla en los ámbitos
científicos de ERCIM
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Objetivos

• Nuestra ambición es
• Posicionar Europa como un actor mayor en ICT
• Construir redes abiertas de centros de
  excelencia en ICT en Europa
• Desarrollar la investigación científica y
  promover la explotación de nuevas tecnologías
• Establecer ERCIM como uno de los lideres
  internacionales en ICT y como un portal para
  alcanzar los mayores grupos de investigación en
  Europa

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Objetivos (2)

• Actuar de interfaz entre instituciones no
  europeas y la comunidad científica europea.
• Colaborar con otras organizaciones
  internacionales en ICT
• Estimular la cooperación científica, la
  transferencia de tecnología, la innovación y la
  instrucción científica
• El objetivo final es la creación de una
  plusvalía para los miembros de ERCIM y para
  Europa .

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Grupos de Trabajo

• Constraints
• Control and System Theory
• Databases
• E-Learning
• Environmental Modelling
• Formal Methods for Industrial Critical
  Applications
• Health and Information Technology
• User Interfaces for All
• Matrix Computations and Statistics
• Applications of Numerical Mathematics in Science
• Image and Video Understanding
• Soft Computing
• Grids

• Organización de talleres científicos
• Preparación de proyectos comunes
  (CoreGRID, MUSCLE,)
• Programa de becas ERCIM
• Premio para le mejor grupo de trabajo
  (hasta 20 000 por ano)

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• ERCIM y W3C Europe
• ERCIM es el anfitrión del W3C en Europa desde
  Enero 2003
• Hay potencialidades para mayor crecimiento y
  sinergias de la tecnologías Web en Europa
• (W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee)

• W3C Europe, Middle East y Africa
• 21 países
• 140 miembros
• 7 de 9 Oficinas del W3C están albergadas por
  institutos de ERCIM.

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Proyectos de Investigación
Proyectos Actuales MUSCLE NoE, DELOS NoE,
TELEMAC (Mexico, Brasil), CoreGRID NoE, DILIGENT
(IP), EU-Mex co-operation (Mexico) Proyectos
pasados WADI (Lebanon), Scholnet, ANFAS (China),
Aquarelle, Infodev, C-Web, DECAIR, Discipl,
THETIS, Alcom, ESIMEAU, Quantum, MtoM3D, Reset,
SIMES, Cyclades, EU-NSF Strategic workshops,...
Proyectos de investigación científica con socios
extra-europeos
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Papel Consultivo

• Con un consorcio de 18 Institutos Europeos en 18
  países distintos, ERCIM esta comprometido en
• Evaluaciones para el programa de desarrollo
  (INFODEV) de la Banca Mundial
• Promoción de actividades con el programa europeo
• Organización de talleres científicos (EU, el
  Mediterráneo, Estados Unidos, America Latina)
• Estudios y consulto para la Comisión Europea
• Consulto para el management de proyectos de
  investigación

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Programa de Becas, Premios y Patrocinas

• Programa de Becas
• Abertura internacional a todos los titulares de
  PhD ,
• Mas de 150 Becas otorgadas desde 1990
• Duración de18 meses en dos institutos ERCIM
• Definición de los tópicos por los grupos de
  trabajo ERCIM

Premio Cor Baayen 5 000 para el becario / la
becaria mas prometedor en un país miembro de
ERCIM Premio ERCIM Hasta 20 000 cada ano para
el mejor taller científico de ERCIM Patrocinas
para conferencias y talleres Hasta 10 eventos
patrocinaos cada ano (2 000 )
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Para mas Informaciones
ERCIM Sitio Internet http//www.ercim.org
ERCIM News Revista científica (suscripción gratis)
Dirección ERCIM Office, BP 93, F-06904 Sophia
Antipolis Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
50 11 E-mail office_at_ercim.org
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Sexto Programa Marco
Tecnologías de la Sociedad de Información en el
Sexto Programa Marco de la Comisión Europea
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Outline of presentation

• FP6 Overview
• Participation
• Implementation

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IST in FP6 Key elements

• Main objectives
• Strengthening Europes competitiveness
  technology base
• Building the information and knowledge society
  for ALL
• Strategy
• Concentration and focus, building critical mass
• Capitalise on Europes strengths
• Visionary, forward looking (longer term / high
  risk)
• Combine flexibility with greater speed in
  implementation
• Scope of activities Core technologies
  pull-through applications

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Instruments for priority areas

• New instruments --- Integrated Projects
  ---Networks of Excellence
• Characterised by capacity to .
• mobilise critical mass necessary to achieve
  ambitious objectives
• produce structuring integrating effects .on
  the fabric of European research

• Calls for proposals will identify ..
• which instruments are to be used,
• which have priority . and for what

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Integrated Projects - purpose

• Designed to support research that is ..
  objective and result driven
• clearly defined objectives and results
• Each IP should
• integrate the types of activities needed to
  obtain the goals
• integrate the critical mass of resources needed
  to obtain the goals
• integrate all elements of technology chain to
  attain high-impact goals
• support industry-academia collaboration including
  SMEs

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Networks of Excellence (NoE) - objectives

• To reinforce scientific and technological
  excellence
• By integrating research capacities across Europe
  and world-wide.
• To progress knowledge on a particular theme
• To act as a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VL)

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NoE - the JPA for integrating/shaping research
The NoE field
RTD activities in Europe before the NoE(today)
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FP6 Budget breakdown

• Integrating strengthening
• Genomics 2255 M
• IST 3625 M
• Nanotechnologies, int.. 1300 M
• Aeronautics and space 1075 M
• Food quality and safety 685 M
• Sustainable development 2120 M
• Citizens and governance .. 225 M
• Anticipation of ST needs
• SMEs 430 M
• Specific INCO 315 M
• Anticipating needs 555 M
• Strengthening ERA foundations 320 M
• Structuring ERA
• Research and Innovation 290 M
• Human resources 1580 M
• Research Infrastructures 655 M
• Science/Society 80 M
• Joint Research Centre 760 M

Joint initiatives with Latin America ?
16,270 M
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FP6 Participation rules

• Who?
• Member States ANDAssociated candidate
  Countries,same rights obligations
• European scientific cooperation organisations
  (ESA etc)
• Minimum number of legal entities
• - IP and NoE 3 (2 from MS)
• - Other instruments 2 (1 from MS).
• - Fellowships support actions 1 (possible)

• 3rd Countries
• IN the Integrating part .
• All countries
• Funding possible for INCO countries
• OUTSIDE Integrating part
• Countries with co-operation agreement under
  specified conditions (EU/ Conacyt)
• Other countries if necessary

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Outline of presentation

• FP6 Overview
• Participation
• Implementation

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H o w t o p r o c e e d ?
Submission
Negotiation
Joint Programme
Evaluation
Funding
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Main Steps

• Scientific motivation Ideas, objectives
• Consortium Building the project team
• Positioning Identifying the appropriate Tool
  Call
• Preparation Writing of the proposal
• Submission
• Evaluation
• Negotiation
• Implementation project start
• Administrative and Scientific work
• Completion of project

EXITO
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Calls for Proposals / Consultorias

• The proposal selection follows a very specific
  procedure (different tools, rules for submission,
  identification of Calls)
• Sixth Framework Programme is subdivided in
  distinct Calls for Proposals.
• Each Call is covering a given number of research
  priorities

First FP6 call December 2002 Pushing the
limits of CMOS, preparing for post-CMOS Micro and
nano-systems Broadband for all Mobile and
wireless systems beyond 3G Towards a global
dependability and security framework Multimodal
interfaces Semantic-based knowledge
systems Networked audiovisual systems and home
platforms Networked businesses and governments
eSafety of road and air transports e Health
Technology-enhanced learning and access to
cultural heritage Second Call 15 October
2003 Advanced displays Optical, opto-electronic,
photonic functional components Open development
platforms for software and services Cognitive
systems Embedded systems Applications and
services for the mobile user and
worker Cross-media content for leisure and
entertainment GRID-based Systems for solving
complex problems Improving Risk
management eInclusion
Identification of the Call for proposals and
Careful selection of the instruments (tools) are
essential Key Success Factors.
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Instruments for Priority Areas
Two Priorities INTEGRATION EXCELLENCE

• Integrated Projects
• Objective driven
• Networks of Excellence
• Exploratory research
• Targeted research projects
• (address specific issues)
• Co-ordination actions
• Support Actions

No longer available .. -
Individual Take-up Actions - SME Exploratory
Awards
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Proyectos integrados (PI)

• Objetivo Movilización de recursos en torno a
  objetivos concretos (productos, procesos,
  servicios) dirigidos a mejorar la competitividad
  europea o a resolver problemas de la sociedad,
  generando el conocimiento requerido para
  implementar las prioridades temáticas.
• Actividades Actividades de demostración
  transferencia de tecnología formación difusión
  de resultados contratación de sub-proyectos
  específicos de complementación
• Duración 3 a 5 años.
• Asociación Mínimo de 3 participantes de Estados
  Miembros o Asociados

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Integrated Project - what is critical mass?

• Resource wise (Open)
• will have the necessary size to achieve its
  ambitious objectives
• budget may range up to millions of (no
  minimum threshold, provided necessary ambition
  critical mass is achieved)
• Partnership wise (Open)
• minimum 3 participants from three different
  countries
• (but in practice likely to be substantially
  more)
• Duration wise (Open)
• typically three to five years
• (more if necessary to deliver the objectives)

In a typical integrated project, more than 25
partners receive almost 10 M for a period of 3-4
years to which they add an equivalent amount as
the Community funds only 50 of the costs.
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Integrated Projects - flexibility autonomy

• For the implementation plan, each year
• consortium will propose detailed plans for the
  coming 18 months
• and may propose to update the overall plan
• (both need approval of the Commission to enter
  into force)
• For the Community contribution
• the contract may not specify its distribution
  between participantsnor between activities
• For changes in the consortium
• the consortium may decide to take in new
  participants(without additional funding)
• the contract will specify when the addition of
  new participantsmust involve a competitive call
• competitive call by Commission to add tasks and
  funding

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Redes de Excelencia (RE)

• Objetivo Integración duradera de las capacidades
  de los grupos de investigación, construyendo una
  masa crítica de recursos y conocimientos para
  conseguir un liderazgo europeo en un área. Se
  agrupan en torno a un programa conjunto de
  actividades.
• Actividades Intercambio de personal trabajo a
  distancia formación transferencia de
  tecnología integración de grupos.
• Duración Menos de 5 años.
• Asociación Mínimo de 3 participantes de Estados
  Miembros o Asociados.

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Network of Excellence - main features

• Virtual centre of Excellence
• a clearly identified Joint Programme of
  Activity (JPA)
• (RTD, training, transfer, mobility... )
• established or emerging fields
• Size
• Several M per year (average1-2M)
• Participants
• minimum of 3 Universities, Research Labs,
  Industrial Labs
• bringing together a critical mass of key actors
• universities, research centres, enterprises
  (SMEs large companies)
• Research oriented

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NoE - implementation

• Selection on the basis of calls for proposals
• Large degree of autonomy
• possibility to modify plans and allocation of
  work
• possibility to launch a call for participation
• Funding
• grant for integration
• should be essentially dedicated to the JPA (work
  programme)
• 7 Management
• funding is defined by the number of researchers
  involved (20 000 euro)

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Proyectos Específicos de Investigación Focalizada

• Objetivo Mejorar la competitividad y la
  resolución de problemas concretos, desarrollo o
  validación de nuevas tecnologías, procesos,
  productos o servicios.
• Actividades Actividades de investigación,
  demostración, innovación, y formación.
• Duración 2 a 3 años.
• Asociación Mínimo de 3 participantes de Estados
  Miembros o Asociados

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Targeted RTD projects

• Principle focused on one specific activity
  specific results
• by supporting research activities of more limited
  scope ambition than Integrated Projects
• Similar to current RTD contracts
• research (50)
• demonstration (35)
• combined research demonstration
• Participation at least two independent
  organisations
• from at least two Member States or Associated
  States
• more limited than for Integrated Projects
• particularly for smaller research actors,
  including SMEs and for participants from
  candidate countries
• Joint and several financial liability

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Presentacion de propuestas

• Búsqueda de Socios
• Redacción de Proyecto y preparación de
  documentación pertinente por el coordinador
  europeo y por las contrapartes gt contraparte
  Am.Latina completa formularios indicados por
  coordinador europeo
• Coordinador europeo presenta propuesta a la
  Comisión
• Evaluación de Propuestas
• Acuerdo de Consorcio
• Negociación y firma del contrato con la Comisión
  Europea
• Inicio del Proyecto

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Proposal Preparation Submission

• Preparation of the proposal according to strict
  guidelines and procedures

• Description of work, budget, coordination,
  management, deliverables, reports
• ST objectives, socio-economic impact
• Outline implementation plan for whole duration
• Detailed implementation plan for first 18 months
• Global budget estimate
• Justification of resources and budget
• Ethical and safety issues...

Submission before strict deadline paper
version, electronic submission
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Evaluation process
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• Evaluation by a strengthened peer-review system
• possibly in stages, involving individual reviews,
  panel sessions, perhaps hearings of applicants
• Evaluation criteria include
• Relevance to objectives of Specific Programme
• Scientific Technical excellence
• Effectiveness of knowledge management
• Scale of ambition and potential impact
• Critical mass in terms of activities and
  resources
• Quality of project management

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Selection Call 1 example

• Proposals received 1 398
• Total grant requested 7 576 M
• Proposals with all criteria above thresholds
  377
• Total grant requested 2 347 M
• Total budget for first call 1 070 M

236 projects were selected out of 1400 submitted.
These will receive above 1 B of funding and have
already started
http//www.cordis.lu/ist/call1.htm
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Outline of presentation

• FP6 Overview
• Participation
• Implementation

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Negotiation and Implementation

• Negotiation validation of the scope of the
  project, budget, recommendations
• Several negotiation rounds are possible
• Implementation
• composition of the consortium (signed forms),
• coordination of partners along the rules of the
  European Commission,
• advance payment,
• kick-off meeting

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Scientific Coordination

• Definition of the work programme
• Implementation of work programme
• Assessment of scientific work progress
• Coordination of the different teams
• Supervision of the different activities
• Stimulation of interactions among the teams
• Validation of achievements results
• Scientific dissemination
• Definition of next scientific orientations

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Administrative Financial Coordination

• Contract negotiation and collection of all
  partners signatures
• Transfer of advance payment
• Definition of Consortium Agreement signature
  among partners
• Coordination of project daily management and
  support of the tasks and of the partners
• Contractual amendments
• Cost Statement
• Periodic report
• Interaction with the European Commission
• Project Reviews
• Support to research activities
• Stimulate dissemination effort
• Exploitation plan / Self sustainability scheme
• Responsibility

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Cooperación Científica y Tecnológica entre
América Latina y Europa
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Cooperación Científica y Tecnológica con la Unión
Europea

• Fomentar, desarrollar y facilitar actividades de
  investigación y desarrollo entre la Comunidad
  Europea y America Latina, en los campos
  científicos y tecnológicos de interés común.
• Las actividades de cooperación se realizan
  basadas en los siguientes principios
• Beneficio mutuo
• Acceso recíproco a las actividades de
  investigación y desarrollo tecnológico
• Intercambio de la información
• Protección de los derechos de propiedad
  intelectual

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E-Health
Research Opportunities
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E-Health - FP6 Directorate C
Objectives To develop an intelligent environment
that enables ubiquitous management of citizens
health status, and to assist health professionals
in coping with some major challenges, risk
management and the integration into clinical
practice of advances in health knowledge.
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E-Health Research directions and priorities

• Wearable and Implantable networked biosensor
  technology (intelligent clothing)
• Personalized eHealth services and
  individualization of diagnoses and treatment,
  Online health services
• Better tools and systems for disease prevention
  and treatment (biomedical Informatics),
  Electronic health cards
• Health knowledge management and interoperability
  of health information sources
• Health information networks, Health GRIDs
• Advice, teleconsultation, ePrescription
• Dissemination of best practices eHealth
  Conferences

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E-government E-Democracy
Research Opportunities
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Assets of e-Governance

• The lean administration
• Cost efficiencies, improved performance
• Better management of public assets knowledge
• Interoperability for faster services better
  quality
• Advanced e-government services to citizens
  businesses
• Convenient services anytime/anywhere
• Enabling easier access to information
• Facilitating transparency, accountability
  participation

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Cornerstones of E-Governance
Openness Participation Accountability Effectivenes
s Coherence
ICT to support
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E-Europe 2005 Action Plan
A Clear focus on

• Modern on-line public services
• e-government, e-learning, e-health
• A dynamic eBusiness environment
• legislation, SMEs, e-skills, interoperability,
  trust confidence, the .eu company
• A secure information infrastructure
• cybersecurity task force, culture of security,
  ...
• Broadband
• spectrum policy, broadband for LFR,
  multi-platform content, ...

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e-Environment
Oportunidades de Investigación Científica
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Research Priorities

• Standardisation of existing systems
• Interoperability
• Harmonisation of systems
• On-site sensors
• Smart sensors
• Smart sensors networks

e-Environment
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ERCIM working group
on e-environment
Recommendations
Environmental modelling
Demand of environmental applications
Research themes
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Environmental modelling

• Modelling of the biosphere with more and more
  biotic and abiotic components will be a great
  challenge.
• Climatic research (space weather included) with
  models in different scales and different
  resolution will require new architectures with
  access to distributed resources.
• Branch oriented simulation systems will be the
  adequate software tools, allowing flexible
  adaptation to the special structure and data of
  complex environmental systems

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• Environmental Applications

• Complexity (dimension(s), structure(s))
• Scale (amount of data, distribution,
  heterogeneity)
• Modelling for different purposes (scenario
  analysis, emergency response, risk management,
  etc)
• Need for adaptability (coupling of models,
  parameter adjustment, etc)
• Longevity of data, applicability to different
  purposes

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Research Priorities

• Parallel, distributed and Grid computing
• Knowledge from data, decision support
• Intelligent/adaptive user interfaces
  visualisation
• Standardisation of metadata and system
  interfaces
• Genericity of information and simulation systems
  
• Workflows for automatic access to distributed
  resources

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Next Call Recommendations
Next call is scheduled September 2005 Room for
new projects initiatives International
Cooperation Stimulation
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Muchas Gracias
 "El arte es yo, la ciencia es nosotros" 
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)