QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

The ongoing ICT call 7, Objective ICT-2011.11.3 seeks to add new partners and additional budget to existing projects to increase the number of EU countries (and FP7 associated countries) involved in the research. The target is to reinforce the cooperation across the enlarged European Union and to strengthen the integration of the European Research Area in ICT.

Proposals must be presented by the coordinator of the on-going project. In order to ensure the widest impact across the Member and Associated States and European Research Area, the additional partners must be located in countries not already present in the existing consortium.

The deadline for the proposal submission is 18th of January (17.00 Brussels time).

Additional information:

-          ICT workprogramme:

_ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/ict-wp-2011-12_en.pdf_

(relevant text starts on page 122)

-          official call text:

_http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=376_<http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=376>

-          special instructions for drafting Part A and Part B of the proposal:
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/calls/cooperation/ict/c-gfacpip-201107_en.pdf
Annex 7 on page 63 has the details.

Prof. Silberhorn leads the integrated quantum optics group in the Department of Physics.  

Congratulations!

Meeting participants (each partner should have a representative) should register at:

http://www.doodle.com/vkdcc6g9p323d5ty

Detailed schedule will be available soon.

The Commission ICT Work-Programme 2011-2012 feature an interesting Objective under FET-Open, namely "Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research". This consist in a funding scheme that provides additional funding to existing grant for on-going FET IPs and STREPs ending at least 18 months after the submission date of the proposal (click on the tab below to access the full Objective text as published in the WP).

Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research

Target outcomes

This objective aims to increase and accelerate the impact of FET research projects by cooperating with non-EU partners of excellent global standing. It targets the extension of ongoing FET projects with complementary research activities in which collaboration with non-EU¹ research partners brings significant added value.

The research content is expected to focus on new activities that expand the research challenges and reinforce the impact of the ongoing project. The outcome of that research is expected to be made freely and openly available for the benefit of the research community.

Funding can be requested by the partners from the ongoing FET project and by the new non- EU research participants to cover the coordination and joint research activities necessary to complement the ongoing project. Proposals must be presented by the coordinator of the on- going project.

 

Expected Impact

• Enhanced outcomes, global reach and impact of ongoing FET research projects through research collaboration with non-EU participants with complementary expertise;
• Research cooperation between world-class EU and non-EU researcher teams reinforced, thus facilitating the emergence of global alliances.

Funding scheme

Additional funding to existing grant for on-going FET² IP and STREP projects ending at least 18 months after the submission date of the proposal.

Indicative budget distribution

EUR 3 million³

Call

FP7-ICT-2011-C Proposals are continuously receivable until 12 March 2013. One-step submission and evaluation process and specific eligibility and evaluation criteria (see Appendix 5⁴).

¹ The new participating organisations cannot be located in EU Member States or in Associated Countries
² Ongoing projects selected under any of the FET objectives of the FP7 ICT Work Programmes
³ Indicative budget which is expected to be committed for successful proposals from the cut-off dates of 17/05/2011 up to and including 10/04/2012 (batch 11 to batch 13 included)
⁴ Proposals submitted to FET-Open Objective ICT-2011.9.4: International cooperation on FET research are subject to the following additional eligibility criteria: Proposals must be presented by the coordinator of an on-going FET IP or STREP project ending at least 18 months after the submission date of the proposal.

 

The call details are available in our FP7 Relevant Calls section.

 Please find the updated version of agenda in the attachment.

Q-ESSENCE has allocated a budget for support of mobilities (students/postdocs) and scientific meetings (conferences, workshops, schools) . The Q-Essence Meetings & Training Committee has, so far, agreed to support International Symposium on Optical Manipulation of Quantum Information in Solids (26-28 May 2010, Paris,  http://www.isomqis2010.fr/) and 14th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (8-14 January 2011, Singapore, http://qip2011.quantumlah.org/index.html).

For more information on the support rules please read the information in the 'Meetings and training Committee' section and the documents attached there.

The SFB TRR21 located in Stuttgart, Ulm and Tübingen, invites all interested parties to attend its 3rd annual summer school in Heinrich-Fabri-Haus, Blaubeuren, October 3rd-5th 2010. The topics this year are "quantum effects in biology", "quantum tomography and sensing" and "hybrid quantum systems". Please contact Michael Hellwig (Michael [dot] Hellwig [at] uni-ulm [dot] de) for further information.

The purpose of Quantiki Video Abstracts is to provide brief video abstracts to recent papers on the arXiv. The abstracts provide a "teaser" for the paper and should guide the audience into your work, emphasizing what you think is the most important result. Everybody is welcome to contribute.