Wednesday, August 05, 2009

FP7 - Legújabb pályázatok környezeti és Afrika témakörökben

A mai napon érkezett a GEO/GEOSS titkárságáról:
" Dear All,
Please find the text below and associated attachments from the European Commission.
With best regards,
The GEO Secretariat
www.earthobservations.org
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The Commission has just published a number of calls for funding in 2010, certain of which are relevant to GEO, with some of the topics being very relevant to GEO CB efforts.
Details of the Environment Theme Call, which includes the Sub-Activity on Earth Observation, can be found at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=267
The Work Programme that goes together with this Call is attached below.
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In addition, we have also published a "Call for Africa", which covers 3 themes: Health; Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Bio-technology; Environment.
Details of this call can be found at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=268
Please note that it isn't easy to get a clear picture of what is included in this Call! (I apologise, but that is the way of the Commission.)
The "Call Fiche", (or call file), provides a summary of what is covered by this call. I've attached this below:
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Then I've also attached an "unofficial" file, which tries to bring together all those topics that are labelled as being a part of the "Call for Africa" in the 3 different Work Programmes, Health, Food and Environment.
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For further information please contact Alan Edwards at Alan.Edwards@ec.europa.eu "
Az anyagot mint GSDI GEO levelező kaptam és osztom meg a HUNAGI közösségével. A hivatkozott dokumentumok kérésre hozzáférhetőek. Az információ többsége a linkeken keresztül elérhető.

GSDI Small Grants Program pályázati felhívás

Mai postánkból. A GSDI titkárságáról érkezett a GSDI legújabb hírlevele az alábbi pályázati felhívással:
"The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association is pleased to announce its Small Grants Program for the year 2009-10.
Summary:
* Awards for spatial data infrastructure or EOS-related activities in economically disadvantaged nations,
* Application deadline of 1 October 2009,
* 4000 words maximum,
* Awards of $2500 USD in cash and/or contributed volunteer professional services for the project
Background
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national, and international spatial data infrastructure developments that would allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance. We are committed to bringing about an infrastructure that will allow users globally to access spatial data at a variety of scales from multiple sources that ultimately will appear seamless to all users. The GSDI Association supports the work of organizations to develop their own SDI initiatives, nationally and regionally, and collaborates with local, national, and international organizations to ensure that spatial data, services, and metadata are accessible through interoperable standards-based services, systems, software, and products that operate in a web-enabled environment. The success of the GSDI Association depends on the quality of its partnerships with
public, private, academic, and non-governmental organizations. Through adoption of common, international standards, key architecture principles, and approaches for capacity building in developing countries, the GSDI initiatives also link national SDI efforts with the vision and goals of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and its Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS).
Description
The GSDI is being advanced through the leadership of many nations and organizations represented by a GSDI Association Council and Board of Directors. The multi-national Board includes representatives from all continents and all sectors: government, academia, and the private sector as well as regional SDI initiatives referred to as permanent committees:
* Africa: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Committee on Development Information: Geo Subcommittee (CODI-GEO)
* Americas: Pan-American Institute for Geography and History (PAIGH)
* Asia and Pacific: Permanent Committee for Geographic Information for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP) (ex-officio)
* Europe: European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (EUROGI)
Please visit the GSDI Association website (http://gsdi.org) to familiarize yourself with the mission, goals, programs, accomplishments and priorities of the organization.
The GSDI Association, along with partners and participants, has allocated resources from the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee and the GISCorps of URISA, to fund a small grants program to support national or sub-national activities that foster partnerships, develop in-country technical capacity, improve data compatibility and access, and increase political support for spatial data infrastructure and earth observations application development. These resources will be used to offer two types of grants this year:
* Cash up to 2,500 USD to be used on your project, and/or
* Professional Services applied to your project
Professional Services will be coordinated by the GISCorps, an international initiative that offers GIS services by qualified economies. Support may focus on technical or institutional projects, as long as tangible outputs and several institutions collaborate on the effort. A list of typical projects follows but this list is not exhaustive:
* Convening of national or sub-national seminars or workshops related to SDI
* Producing SDI- and EO-related training manuals and modules (these materials must not duplicate existing materials)
* Establishing metadata and clearinghouse nodes
* Establishing web mapping services and applications
* Accomplishing Geodata and/or SDI surveys or inventories
* Producing and disseminating newsletters and awareness-raising materials about SDI
* Drafting policy and legislation related to SDI
Priority will be given to projects in developing nations and countries with economies in transition. Grants can be awarded to SDI coordinating bodies (councils, committees) and GIS user groups, but the GSDI Association asks that one institution take responsibility for receiving/depositing the funds. Grants will not cover organization overhead expenses.
Proposals should include information under the following headings:
1. Title of Project/Activity
2. Focal Point Institution
3. Contact Person (business street address, phone/fax, email, and website)
4. Introduction and Background (include a description of the national or local institutional framework and what has been achieved thus far)
5. Project Description
6. Summary of Deliverables
7. Period of Performance (time-line for overall project, deadline dates for deliverables, date of final project report to be submitted to grants@gsdi.org)
8. Indicate your preference for an award of cash or professional services.
9. Budget (itemize how the money is to be spent or the predicated extent of services needed for specific tasks)
a. If one or more GISCorps volunteers are requested please indicate that in your GSDI application and also provide a description of tasks requested of volunteer professional(s) and other information at http://www.giscorps.org/. Use the "New Project" link on this page to complete the request for GISCorps volunteer assistance.
10. Details of additional or in-kind funds to co-finance the activity
11. List of Collaborators (with contact information)
12. Envisioned Follow-up Activities
13. Appendix: May include the Final Reports from any previous GSDI Small Grant Awards

Proposals must be submitted digitally to grants@gsdi.org in English and should be preferably two pages in length but no more than three pages or 4000 words (excluding any appendices). Please submit your proposal as a .pdf file (or alternatively .doc or .rtf file) using 12-point Times Roman or Arial font.
We anticipate funding up to 12 Grants in Cash and up to 4 Grants in Professional Services. Grant funds will be issued as paper checks in US dollars drawn on US Banks or as wire transfers. If the recipient chooses to receive funds by wire transfer, $50 US will be deducted from the award amount to cover the processing costs for the wire transfer. The recipient institution will be required to provide a project report and an expense report upon completion of the project. The GSDI Association may include excerpts of the project reports in GSDI newsletters or on its website. Awardees are encouraged to publish a local press release highlighting the award from the GSDI Association as well as the proposed activities, and to send copies of these to the GSDI Association.
Proposals are due on 1 October 2009. Please e-mail them to:
Societal Impacts Committee
GSDI Association
grants@gsdi.org
For more information about the GSDI or to subscribe to the GSDI News List, please see http://gsdi.org. For questions about this request for proposals, please contact grants@gsdi.org
Note: The Small Grants Program is intended as a benefit of "full membership" in the GSDI Association. Because the GSDI Association is fairly young, we are making this opportunity available currently to non-members as well. However, full members may obtain favored treatment in the instance in which two grant applications have been ranked similarly in the peer review process. Note that the annual GSDI Association membership fee for national organizations in low and very low per capita income nations may be as little as US$100 or documented in-kind contributions in lieu of dues. Please see http://www.gsdi.org/documents/OrgnMemberApp.pdf "

FP7 - Űrkutatás, űralkalmazások pályázati kiírás

Mai postánkból. A Magyar Űrkutatási Iroda az alábbi pályázati felhívást adta közre, amely számot tarthat a HUNAGI egyes tagszervezetei és tagintézményei érdeklődésére is.
"Tisztelt Kollégák!
Ezúton tájékoztatjuk Önöket az FP7 Space 3. pályázati felhívásáról.
- A pályázatot a Bizottság 2009. július 30-án tette közzé. A benyújtási határidő december 8-a. A felhívással meghirdetett teljes összeg mintegy 114 millió euró, ami jelentős növekmény az első és a második pályázathoz képest. Idén a korábbinál hangsúlyosabb szerepet kap a Space Foundations fejezet, azon belül is az űrtechnológia, űrtudomány és különböző alapkutatások, valamint az űrszállítás, de továbbra nominálisan a GMES-Kopernikus fejezet is megnövekedett.
Az FP7-tel kapcsolatban tájékoztatjuk az érdeklődőket, hogy szeptember 15-16-án Varsóban európai információs napot szervez a Bizottság az NCP-k és a pályázaton indulni szándékozók számára. A korábbi hasonló rendezvények bizonyítják ezen alkalmak hasznosságát, hiszen a régi EU-tagállamokból Varsóba látogatók nagy része azért érkezik majd, hogy konkrét feladatokra, konkrét pályázatokra konzorciumi partnert találjon a képviselt kelet-európai országból. Mivel az új pályázati felhívás pályázatai 2 millió euróval lesznek támogathatók egyenként (a teljes konzorciumra), ezért egy-egy partner is több százezer eurós összeggel gazdálkodhat. Javasoljuk ezért, hogy a pályázaton indulni kívánók vegyenek részt a szeptemberi eseményen. A pályázatról bővebb információkat a CORDIS honlapján olvashatnak.
Tisztelettel
MŰI Titkárság"