[okfn-advisory] EU PSP Funding

[Jonathan Gray]

Dear Sören,

Many thanks for these excellent suggestions. Any chance we could
arrange to have a quick Skype call about this. Say, next Tuesday?

Jonathan

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Sören Auer
<auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as promised I wanted to share some information re. EU funding opportunities:
>
> The ICT-PSP programme funds projects supporting political goals of the EU.
> Goals related to OKFN are for example to make the EUs cultural heritage
> available through the Europeana digital library, supporting Open Innovation,
> open access and multilingual web.
>
> In January the EU will publish a call for proposals with a budget of 107M
> Euro, calling for projects in particular in the following areas relevant for
> OKCON:
>
> 2. Digital Libraries
>  2.1 Coordinating Europeana
>  2.2 Enhancing/Aggregating content in Europeana
>  2.3 Digitising content for Europeana
>  2.4 Access to European Rights Information / Registry of Orphan Works
>  2.5 Open access to scientific information
>  2.6 Statistics on cultural heritage digitisation activities
>
> 4. Open Innovation for future Internet-enabled Services in  "smart" Cities
>  4.1 Open Innovation for future Internet-enabled Services in  "smart" Cities
>
> 5. ICT for improved services for citizens and businesses
>  5.1 Enlargement of the Pilot "SPOCS" preparing the implementation of the
> Services Directive
>  5.2 eJustice services
>  5.3 Universal ID
>
> 6. Multilingual Web
>  6.1 Open linguistic infrastructure
>  6.2 Multilingual online services
>
>
> More info can be also found at:
> http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
> There will be also an information day on 14 January 2010 in Brussels.
>
> I'm definitely interested to work on one proposal. We can also try to get
> OKFN involved in other proposal efforts. I was the last two times evaluator
> of ICT-PSP proposals and will be happy to share my experiences.
>
> There is also currently a call open in FP7 on
>
> 4. Digital Libraries and Content:
>        4.1 Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation
>
> This is more research oriented and the deadline is 13th of April 2010.
>
>
> Sören
>
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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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