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BIBLIOTHEKSDIENST Heft 9, 2000

IST - Call for Proposals

"Take-up actions"

 

Mit dem am 25. Juli ergangenen Aufruf zur Einreichung von Projektvorschlägen sind erstmals auch sog. "take-up actions" angesprochen. Diese Aktivitäten rangieren unter dem hohen Anspruch, einen Beitrag zur Forschung zu leisten und sind daher besonders für kleinere Einrichtungen von Interesse. Nachfolgend finden Sie eine genaue Beschreibung zu diesen Aktivitäten. Bei Nachfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an die angegebene Kontaktadresse bei der EU-Kommission.

Klaus Reinhardt (EDBI)

 

Are you a small or medium-size cultural or scientific institution?

If so, read all about take-up actions.

On 25 July 2000, the Commission published a new IST call for proposals, that will close on 31 October. One of the action lines open in this call is for take-up in the area of digital heritage and cultural content: A.L.III.1.5 - Trials on new access modes to cultural and scientific content.

 

What are take-up actions?

Take-up Actions are established to encourage take-up of technologies or approaches in co-operation with users and suppliers. They are generally smaller, more focused and have a shorter duration than normal RTD projects. There are different types of take-up actions, one of which is trials.

 

What are trials?

Trials aim at the adaptation and introduction of leading-edge technology (promising but not yet fully established) in industrial/service applications and its joint evaluation (by supplier and user). They are intended to encourage synergies, accelerate wider adoption and overcome barriers to exploitation. Individual trials are required to disseminate results and exchange experiences across borders and industrial/service sectors and in due course to participate in co-ordination frameworks.

Trials normally do not involve research and technology development work as such, but support the objectives of the programme by enhancing the effects of RTD work. The development work within a trial is therefore restricted to the adaptation, fine-tuning, customisation and improvement of already available methods and technologies towards users' needs, with subsequent evaluation of the technological and economic benefits of the innovative use of the technology within the products, processes and operations in industry and services. The focus does not need to be on results emerging from the programme itself although emerging guidelines can usefully be taken into account.

 

Type of consortium

The trial consortium can have one or several principal contractor and members. In the case where there is only one principal contractor with one or more members, the member(s) can be established in the same country as the principal contractor. If a take-up action is carried out by more than one principal contractor, the consortium must include at least two participants who are mutually independent legal entities established in two different Member States or in a Member State and an Associated State.

Remember that the requirements for take-up are quite different to those of the consortium-based approach applied to most mainstream RTD projects. More often than not, take-up proposals will involve only one main participant, possibly drawing on the assistance of other members such as technical partners. The emphasis will there be on what that participant can achieve by applying a technology trial for the benefit of its users.

 

Funding models

The Community contribution to trials is:

The contract will be of the type used for accompanying measures.

 

Call scope

III.1.5. Trials on new access modes to cultural and scientific content Domains of interest include - but are not limited to - new navigation tools, wireless access to the Web, improved visualisation of artefacts and collections, and community building for thematic collections. In all cases the trials should be driven by an authentic need as expressed by a well-defined user profile.

These activities will be pursued in collaboration with other programmes and initiatives at national and regional level.

Some of the ideas that we have already come across are:

 

Documents to read:

Workprogramme 2000, Call announcement, Guide for proposers and Evaluation manual. All of them at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/calls/200004.htm.

We are looking for technology experiments with cultural resources.

Let us imagine that you are a medium-sized museum (or library, historic site, archive). You will be active in developing your relationship with your visitors (real or virtual), and in the coming 18 months you will have a well-defined event or project planned. In this ongoing project there is always a point-beyond which you cannot go. This could be due to lack of funds and/or expertise, or simply because it would involve too high a risk. In some cases this is directly linked to the testing and adoption of a new technology. A take-up trial is there to help active heritage institutions to test and adopt new technologies. Generally this will involve limited funding (e.g. up to 150 KEuro) over a limited time period (e.g. 6-12 months), and a "simple" relationship between yourself and your technology supplier(s). Our focus is on the way new technologies can enhance the experience of the visitor (real or virtual). You will be able to describe in a simple convincing way your needs, your objectives and your plans. You will also have a solid plan to disseminate your results and exchange the experience you have gained with other heritage institutions. It may well be that your project is part of a national or regional programme, or even part of a collection of projects proposed as a package to this call.

Good luck! Contact us if you have any questions, no matter how simple.

European Commission - DG INFSO / D-2, Cultural Heritage Applications
Rue Alcide de Gasperi, EUFO 1276, L-2920 Luxembourg
Phone: 00352-4301 32126, Fax: 00352-4301 33530
E-Mail:
digicult@cec.eu.int


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