[foundation-board] DM2E grant approval

Thu Feb 16 15:35:42 UTC 2012

After many delays at the EC side, we finally have confirmation of the
Digital Manuscripts to Europeana project, on which we will be a
partner.  The relevant documents are attached. Our work on the project
is primarily outreach and community building.

The contract is now ready for signature on Form A for the OKFN.
Signing such a contract is beyond my current signing authority.

Would the board be willing to grant me the authority to sign this contract?

(if not, any volunteers to print&sign&courier it over to Stefan?)

many thanks,

Laura

--

Dr Laura James
Foundation Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation

http://okfn.org

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stefan Gradmann <stefan.gradmann at ibi.hu-berlin.de>
Date: 2012/2/16
Subject: Final Grant Agreement project DM2E - ref 297274 and A-forms
To: "Dr .Jutta Weber" <jutta.weber at sbb.spk-berlin.de>, Max Kaiser
<max.kaiser at onb.ac.at>, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>,
Stefanos Kollias <stefanos at cs.ntua.gr>, Vassilis Tzouvaras
<tzouvaras at image.ntua.gr>, Michele Barbera <barbera at netseven.it>,
Christian Morbidoni <christian.morbidoni at gmail.com>, Dirk Wintergrün
<dwinter at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>, Chris Bizer
<christian.bizer at fu-berlin.de>, Timm-Martin Siewert
<Timm-Martin.Siewert at exlibrisgroup.com>, Axel Kaschte
<axel.kaschte at exlibrisgroup.com>, "Lena Stanley-Clamp (EAJC)"
<lstanley-clamp at jpr.org.uk>, post at fa.uib.no, Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria
Jeanna <jeanna.nikolov at onb.ac.at>, Dov Winer <dov.winer at gmail.com>,
rennoffice <rennoffice at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>, Holger Busse
<holger.busse at sbb.spk-berlin.de>, Alois Pichler
<Alois.Pichler at fof.uib.no>, Everardus Overgaauw
<Everardus.Overgaauw at sbb.spk-berlin.de>, Gerhard Müller
<Gerhard.Mueller at sbb.spk-berlin.de>, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org>,
Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org>, Rune Kyrkjebø
<Rune.Kyrkjebo at ub.uib.no>
Cc: Renate Ubachs <renate.ubachs at humboldt-innovation.de>, steffen
hennicke <steffen.hennicke at ibi.hu-berlin.de>, Evelyn Dröge
<evelyn.droege at ibi.hu-berlin.de>, Tiina Ison <Tiina.ison at gmail.com>,
Konstantin Baierer <konstantin at baierer.de>

Dear DM2E partners,
good news: I am now forwarding the message below from the EC asking us
to sign the grant agreement - and that will be done immediately. But
there's work for you, as well: this message has two attachments, the
final version of the DoW and the A-forms you will need to sign to
access to the contract.

Each of you should thus sign three copies of your accession form (Form A).

In the event that the accession form of one of the beneficiaries is
not signed by the person(s) named in the grant agreement, this
beneficiary should confirm in an accompanying letter that he/she is
empowered to sign the grant agreement.

Each of you should return three original signed copies of your Form A
to me by express courier. These Form A''s will then be countersigned
by our authorised legal representative and I will keep one of the
original signed accession forms for my own files, return the second
original to you and send the third original signed accession form to
the Commission services to our Project Officer (see above).

The signed Forms A should be sent to the Commission at the latest 45
days after entry into force of the grant agreement.

In the event that any of the other beneficiaries do not accede to the
grant agreement within 45 days after entry into force of the grant
agreement, the Commission may terminate the grant agreement.
Lastly, please note that the starting date of the project is mentioned
in Article 3(2) of the grant agreement.

I thus count on all of you to quickly return the accession forms and
am really glad we thus will have a signed contract with the Commission
before our Kick-Off meeting :)

Best -- Stefan Gradmann

Dear Coordinator,

You will find attached to this email PDF documents containing the
above-referenced grant agreement and its annexes.

This includes the pre-completed accession forms (Form A) for all
beneficiaries listed in Article 1(2) of the grant agreement. Kindly
forward a copy of the grant agreement (in electronic or paper form as
appropriate), the respective Form A and a copy of this e-mail to each
of the beneficiaries.

We kindly ask you to sign and date two copies of the grant agreement.
Please indicate above the signature of the authorised legal
representative of your organisation his or her name and position and
if applicable add the stamp of your organisation. If the authorised
legal representative named in the preamble of the grant agreement is
not the person signing the grant agreement, please confirm in the
accompanying letter the legal authorisation of the person having
signed.

Please confirm in writing in the accompanying letter that no
modification has been made to the text of the grant agreement. Any
modification that has not been discussed and agreed with our services
cannot and will not be taken into consideration.

We request that you return both copies of the signed grant agreement
within 10 working days by express courier to the Commission services
to the following address:

THOMAS Claudine
European Commission
DG INFSO - E06
Office: EUFO 01/284
L-2920 LUXEMBOURG
Please note that, in accordance with Article 9(1) of the grant
agreement, the above address is to be used for any communication or
request concerning the grant agreement.
For information or documents to be transferred by electronic means,
the following addresses shall be used:
INFSO-ICT-PSP-297274 at ec.europa.eu
In your accompanying letter, please inform us of your communication
address and of the addresses of the beneficiaries communicated to you,
in accordance with Article 9(1) and II.2(1) of the grant agreement.

As soon as the Commission receives the dated and signed original
copies of the grant agreement, both copies will be signed and dated by
the Director General (or his authorised representative) on behalf of
the Commission. One original grant agreement will be returned to you
as Coordinator of the consortium as legal proof that the grant
agreement has been signed by the Commission and has therefore entered
into force. We will ask you to distribute a copy of this signed grant
agreement to all the beneficiaries.

The other beneficiaries should sign three copies of their accession
form (Form A).

In the event that the accession form of one of the beneficiaries is
not signed by the person(s) named in the grant agreement, this
beneficiary should confirm in an accompanying letter that he/she is
empowered to sign the grant agreement.

Each of the beneficiaries should return three original signed copies
of their Form A to you by express courier. These Form A''s should be
countersigned by the authorised legal representative of your
organisation and you should keep one of the original signed accession
forms for your own files, return the second original to the
beneficiary and send the third original signed accession form to the
Commission services to your Project Officer (see above).

The signed Forms A should be sent to the Commission at the latest 45
days after entry into force of the grant agreement.

In the event that any of the other beneficiaries do not accede to the
grant agreement within 45 days after entry into force of the grant
agreement, the Commission may terminate the grant agreement.
Lastly, please note that the starting date of the project is mentioned
in Article 3(2) of the grant agreement.

If you have any questions with regard to the content of this e-mail,
please do not hesitate to contact your Project Officer.

Yours sincerely,
BEUSELING Peter
European Commission
Directorate General Information Society and Media
Head of Unit DG INFSO - E07
Admin and Finance
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann
Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und
Informationspraxis (DGI)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin School of Library and Information Science
Sitz: Dorothenstrasse 26 / Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Tel.:  +49 30 2093-4481
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