---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samer <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:37 AM Subject: [members] Re: Huge grant on commons collaborative economy + blockchain To: P2PValue Project Members List <[email protected]>
Dear all At last I launched publicly the project on blockchain + collaborative economy. You have the thread of tweets in: https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/928820944705130498 (dissemination is appreciated!). The web of the project: http://p2pmodels.eu The Twitter of the project: http://twitter.com/p2pmod Thanks! Samer Hassan | @samerP2P <http://twitter.com/samerP2P> | http://samer.hassan.name Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University Associate Professor, Univ. Complutense de Madrid On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Samer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear P2Pvalue friends > > I want to share with you very good news, which some of you already know. I > received the ERC grant, the largest personal research grant in Europe (!). > That means I will have 1.5M€ to work on building blockchain-based > infrastructure for a commons-oriented collaborative economy. I find pretty > insane the whole thing, and I'm still overwhelmed with the idea! > > I want to thank the whole P2Pvalue community, as without you all this > wouldn't have been possible. P2Pvalue was my first European project, and it > has profoundly impacted me, changing the way I see research, academia and > activism. I have made great friends along the way, and I have now strong > bonds with many of you. P2Pvalue setted the base for my future research, > and this ERC grant is a continuation of the same research line, to continue > and deepen the vision we pushed forward. > > So, what's the fuzz about? The ERC > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Research_Council> is a EU funding > body whose task is basically to give the largest personal research grants > of the EU research program, to worlwide top researchers, doing projects > considered "frontier research" and which has potential high impact. Any > researcher in the world can apply, with the only requirement of being > willing to do the 5-year project in an European institution. The grant I > got is the Starting Grant, for "young" researchers, which gives 1.5M€. > Depending on your career stage, the grant gives different amounts (1.5M, 2M > and 2.5M). > > This project is an interdisciplinary project that aims to provide tools to > build new types of collaborative communities, which rely on a decentralized > infrastructure (using blockchain), and have both democratic governance, and > economic models where profits are distributed. We will also build tools > (and a testbed) to enable experimentation of new governance and economic > models over the blockchain. Here it is the abstract > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DCPOMZqqFN8HusHJcpPX9VwXoD0WJpinyFzIcF03JS8/edit>, > let me know if you want more information, and feel free to share it with > whomever may be interested. > > As a form of giving forward to the P2Pvalue community, I offer myself to > help whomever of you would want to apply to the ERC grants. And when the > project starts in a few months, I will make all the proposal documents > public (and open licensed) with the hope of being useful for others, trying > to move away from the secretive approach around research proposals. Please > feel free to contact me for other forms I could be helpful to you! > > Cheers! > > -- > Samer | @samerP2P <http://twitter.com/samerP2P> | http://samer.hassan.name > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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