European Union
PREPARATION AND MANAGEMENT OF EU-FUNDED PROJECTS
Workshop

KLAUS NETTER, HANS USZKOREIT

German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken

First week
Klaus.Netter@dfki.de and uszkoreit@dfki.de
Course description

Transnational R&D projects funded by the European Commission have always played an important role for advancing the area of information technology and in particular language technology in Europe. In the Fourth Framework Programme of the European Commission, the Language Engineering Sector of the Telematics Application Programme alone will have funded over 60 projects with an overall budget of 80 million ECU. In the upcoming Fifth Framework Programme with its Information Society Technologies (IST) programme there will be, among other relevant subprogrammes, a dedicated project line on Human Language Technologies.

This programme will most likely start at the end of this year and will open up new directories, new contents and new topics, which will be interesting and important to know. Also, like any other funding schemes, EU projects have to obey specific regulations and the collaboration in European consortia follows certain rules, which may have not always be obvious to the newcomer.

The workshop will attempt to provide the participants with some information, advice and guidelines for the application, preparation, and running of EU-projects, both on an administrative and technical level.

The speakers of the workshop will be highly experienced project managers and a representative of the EU Language Engineering Programme, Giovanni B. Varile, DG XIII of the European Commission, who are familiar with the typical problems and issues faced by project consortia. The topics covered will be amongst others the following:

  • Language Technology in the Fifth Framework Programme
  • Project Preparation
    • Application Areas (Research or Development)
    • Finding Partners and Structuring of Consortia
    • Proposal and Project Presentation
    • Negotiations with the Funding Agency
    • Technical Annexes (Workplans, Budget Allocation, etc.)
    • Consortium Agreements, IPR, Exploitation Rights
  • Project Management
    • Administrative Work and Controlling
    • Technical Coordination of Workpackages
    • Trouble Shouting
    • Dissemination and Concertation
  • Project Phases
    • Market Analysis and User Requirements
    • Functional Specifications
    • Implementation Phases and Demonstrator Construction
    • Evaluation and Validation

 

Prerequisites
None
Literature
No spedific recommendation

 

 


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