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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-advisory mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-advisory > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
