Πρόγραμμα eContentplus 2005-2008 Ενημερωτική ημερίδα Αθήνα, 27 Ιουλίου 2006 Πρόσκληση 2006 Σπύρος Πηλός

Πρόγραμμα eContentplus 2005-2008

Ενημερωτική ημερίδαΑθήνα, 27 Ιουλίου 2006

Πρόσκληση 2006

Σπύρος Πηλός

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eContentplus objectiveseContentplus objectives

Overall aim“to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable, facilitating the creation and diffusion of information, in areas of public interest, at Community level”.

Enabling roleHelp content stakeholders (providers and users) realise the full potential of digital content… by creating better conditions for accessing, using, reusing and exploiting digital material… in areas with a public interest, which would not develop or would develop at a slower pace if left to the market... based on which it will be possible to build added-value products and services across Europe

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What is not fundedWhat is not funded

Digitisation or creation of content

Translation of content

Creation of services

Research and development of new technologies

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What is funded What is funded

Projects that:

aim at improving the searchability and usability of existing digital content in order to create the conditions for the emergence of European content-based services,

use existing state-of-the-art technical solutions,

are geared towards innovation in organisation and in deployment (as opposed to purely technological innovation),

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eContentplus 2005-2008 – BudgeteContentplus 2005-2008 – Budget

Call 2007Call 2005 Call 2006 Call 2008

45 M€

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

28 M€27 M€ 49 M€

149 Million euros

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Call 2005Proposals received and recommended for

funding

Call 2005Proposals received and recommended for

funding

Received Rec. for funding

Geographic information 34 3

Educational content 65 4

Cultural and scientific/scholarly content 136 11

Reinforcing cooperation between digital content stakeholders 3 1

TOTAL 238 19

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Ελληνική συμμετοχή 2005Ελληνική συμμετοχή 2005

Προτάσεις 133/2089 συμμετοχές, από 93

οργανισμούς 20/240 συντονιστέςΕπιλογή 13/249 εταίροι, εκ των οποίων 1/19 συντονιστής

eContentplus 2006 Work Programme

Project TypesCommon RequirementsOpen Actions

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Target areas and project types for 2006

Target areas and project types for 2006

Target area

Geographic information

Educational content

Digital Libraries

Project type

Targeted Projects

Thematic Network*

plus one Thematic Network

in the area of “reinforcing cooperation between digital content stakeholders”

* one TN for each target area

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Project types in 2006 Project types in 2006

Targeted Projects address specific barriers that prevent or limit access to and the use of digital content at any stage of the chain — production, exposure, discovery, acquisition and use. Key objective: improve interoperability and usability of existing content.

Thematic Networks bring together relevant stakeholders, expertise and facilities for awareness raising and exchange of information. Key objectives: identification of best practices and achieving consensus on methods and standards.


NB: Major differences 2005 - 2006NB: Major differences 2005 - 2006

No content enrichment projects this year Content providers must be part of the consortium Users should be involved, either as participants or

stakeholders Educational content useful for formal education

systems Target area “cultural, scientific/scholarly content

renamed “digital libaries” For digital libraries only content held by museums,

libraries and archives will be considered this year

Requirements tightened and focus narrowed with a view toobtaining fewer and better proposals

Requirements tightened and focus narrowed with a view toobtaining fewer and better proposals


Structure of Work ProgrammeStructure of Work Programme

Common requirements for proposals (TP and TN)

Framework for each action organised in 3 parts:

Objective

Conditions

Expected results


Common requirements for TP - 1Common requirements for TP - 1

For the consortium: Must include content providers. Should also include users - not necessarily as

participants.

For the European dimension: The issues should have a European interest. The ways to tackle them should impact on a large

number of users and EU countries (especially new Member States).


Common requirements for TP – 2Common requirements for TP – 2

For the content: Quality, quantity and selection criteria of content

(and of related metadata) to be contributed by each provider

Consortium has to ensure availability of input content. Where IPR apply, put in place licensing or clearing

arrangements for project results. For the expected impact:

Analysis of demand (target users and needs) Demonstrate critical mass Results accessible beyond end of project Sustainability


Common requirements for TNCommon requirements for TN

Cover majority of EU Member States including at least 3 new Member States.

Involve major relevant digital data stakeholders from the countries covered

Be open and proactive in attracting new partners


Geographic information Targeted Projects

Geographic information Targeted Projects

What is it? Core spatial information, i.e. any data with a direct reference

to a specific location or geographic area.(typical example: maps)

Objective: aggregate ‘core’ geographic information across borders guarantee its interoperability for seamless data integrationTo resolve problems relating to: Fragmentation and missing harmonisation between datasets

and sources Diverse collection/preservation practices


Geographic informationOne Thematic NetworkGeographic informationOne Thematic Network

Objective: Exchange of information and best practice between

stakeholders on interoperability and on tagging digital geographic information with semantically well-defined metadata.

Spread awareness among geographic information stakeholders of the benefits of meta-tagging.

Coordinate steps to ensure organisational cohesion and the sustainability of relevant actions.


Educational contentEducational content

What is it? Digital content that can be used for learning

Focus in 2006:face-to-face or distance learning in the formal education system, and especially in compulsory education, secondary general education and higher education

Overall objective:Enhance access, use and exploitation of existing educational content and/or learning repositories across borders in different formal education contexts and in several languages


Issues to address: content interoperability trust and management adaptability of digital content distributed digital repositories or enabling infrastructure

for related brokerage services

Solutions …

…. should integrate technical, pedagogical and organisational aspects to address problems at all stages of the chain “creation, publication, discovery, acquisition, access, and use”.

Educational contentTargeted Projects

Educational contentTargeted Projects


Objective Identify specific problems and best practice for achieving

the overall objective. Promote consensus building and coordination of

stakeholders at the organisational level for the implementation and sustainability of the solutions identified including, for example:

adoption of common reference models roadmaps for operational actions advice to policy-making bodies concerted actions to convey European needs to

standardisation bodies for learning technologies.

Educational contentOne Thematic Network

Educational contentOne Thematic Network


What is it?

Digital Libraries is a flagship initiative under i2010with the vision ofmaking Europe’s cultural heritage accessible and available for use to its citizens over the Internet

It includes three main strands:

Digitisation Online accessibility Digital preservation

eContentplus contributes to improving online accessibility

Digital libraries and eContentplusDigital libraries

and eContentplus


What is it? digital libraries are organised collections of digital content

made available to the public cultural content is content held by cultural institutions

(museums, libraries and archives) scientific/scholarly content is content published results of

researchers’ work (e.g. articles, papers, conference proceedings)Objective Improve interoperability of European cultural and

scientific/scholarly content (digital libraries) held by cultural institutions and enable multilingual access, in order to enhance its visibility as well as cross-border access, use and re-use.

Digital libraries(cultural and scientific/scholarly content)

Digital libraries(cultural and scientific/scholarly content)


Specific conditions

Address issues related to: to the standard-based interoperability between

digital objects and collections and the interoperability of systems authorising use

and/or to multilingual access to the underlying digital content (excluding however the translation of existing content)

Digital librariesTargeted ProjectsDigital libraries

Targeted Projects


Objective Identify best practice in interoperability of digital European

cultural content (including different types of content) coming from different types of cultural institutions.

Achieve consensus on the use of common standards to facilitate searching the collections of the cultural institutions as part of the European Digital Library.

Specific conditions Key stakeholders from the different cultural institutions. Proposals representative of the different types of

institutions and able to ensure a wide take-up of the agreed standards.

User needs should be taken into account.

Digital librariesOne Thematic Network

Digital librariesOne Thematic Network


What is it? Public domain: content, that is not or no longer

protected by intellectual property rights

Related issues, e.g.: Creative commons (available for re-use for specific purposes) Open access (scientific/scholarly content) Orphan works (content, for which the status of IPR is not clear

or for which the rightsholder(s) cannot be found) Technical protection measures vs. private copying

Reinforcing cooperationPublic Domain

Reinforcing cooperationPublic Domain


Reinforcing cooperationOne Thematic Network for Public

Domain

Reinforcing cooperationOne Thematic Network for Public

Domain

Objective Awareness among content stakeholders on the importance

of issues relating to the usability and accessibility of public-domain digital content. Identify the issues and develop strategies for tackling them at European level.

Specific conditions Experts from different backgrounds with an interest in the

public domain, such as IPR experts, content owners (libraries and archives), representatives of the scientific community, end users and consumers.

Participants represent the interests of actors from a sufficiently wide geographical area.


Indicative funding by project type Indicative funding by project type

Indicative total funding: 27 M€

In total 7 actions will be open in 2006 to fund 10 Targeted Projects and 4 Thematic Networks

Project typeDuration

(in months)Number of Countries(impact)

Funding(in Millions €)

Targeted projects

typically 18-24(up to 36 m)

6-15 2-5 M€

Thematic Networks

Up to 36 m 13-25 0.4-1 M€

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Proposal preparation & submission


Proposal structureProposal structure

Part A Legal and administrative information about the

proposal (A1) and the applicants (A2) Details of the funding requested (A3)

Part B Description of the work (Template provided)

Part C Financial capacity of the applicants (C forms)


Proposal submissionProposal submission

Key points Deadline for receipt of proposals

19 October 2006 17:00 (Lux local time) All parts One original unbound paper version 5 bound copies CD-Rom with completed Excel files and Part B

in pdf format

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Proposal evaluation


Evaluation of proposals – by whom?Evaluation of proposals – by whom?

Eligibility criteria

Award criteria

Selection criteria

Commission

Evaluation

Committee

Outside

experts++


Evaluation criteriaEvaluation criteria

Eligibility criteria Your proposal must be complete and arrive on time

Award criteria Your proposals must contribute to the achievement of the

eContentplus objectives

Selection criteria You must have the means and financial/operational

capacity to do what you propose to do

Read them! They will help you prepare a good proposalRead them! They will help you prepare a good proposal


Award criteriaAward criteria

Applied on basis of information supplied in proposal

Each criterion marked from 1-10; mind weighting: maximum score 100

Criterion 1 >= 6/10, else exclusion from further evaluation

Formal minimum of 60 points to be retained for co-funding; mind budget availability: 27.3 million euro


Programme Objectives

Award CriteriaAward Criteria

Common Requirements

Action

Conditions

Expected Results

Objective


Award criteria – list and weightsAward criteria – list and weights

For Targeted Projects1. Relevance, impact and European dimension (35%)2. Content and additional conditions (25%)3. Quality of the technical part of the proposal (20%)4. Resources and management (20%)

For Thematic Networks1. Relevance, impact and European dimension (40%)2. Quality of the technical part of the proposal (20%)3. Quality of the proposed network and management (40%)


Selection criteriaSelection criteria

Financial and operational capacity to carry out the project

financial evaluation - co-financing adequate human resources

Professional competencies and qualifications documented relevant experience (e.g. academic

qualifications or previous projects)

Proposals failing to pass the selection criteriacannot be retained for co-funding.

Proposals failing to pass the selection criteriacannot be retained for co-funding.

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Model Grant Agreement


eContentplus offereContentplus offer

The Commission will offer a grant to the successful consortia to perform the work they proposed.

All results/knowledge will be owned by the consortium.


Grant agreement structureGrant agreement structure

Grant Agreement Defines beneficiaries, duration of the project, maximum EC

contribution and special conditions

Annex I – Description of Work Negotiated part B of proposal

Annex II – General Conditions Governs relation between Commission and consortium

(technical and financial collective responsibility, submission of deliverables, eligible costs)

Annex III – Accession Forms


Community ContributionCommunity Contribution

Targeted Projects 50% of total eligible costs (direct and indirect) Indirect costs calculated as flat rate of up to 30% of

personnel costs

Thematic Networks 100% of direct costs for co-ordinating and

implementing the network Funding of network members limited to travel &

subsistence (100%)


Direct CostsDirect Costs

Personnel costs: personnel working for the project

Travel & subsistence costs incurred for project according to usual rules of applicant

Subcontracting: identified in Part B of the proposal; bid offering best value for money

Other specific costs = costs not eligible under other mentioned cost categories, subject to Commission approval if not listed in grant agreement


Indirect CostIndirect Cost

Overheads: Flat rate up to 30% of personnel costs.

general management and administration costs depreciation of buildings and equipment rent, heating, water, electricity, office furniture personal computers, office supplies including printer ink

and stationery telecommunications and postal charges.

No overheads for Thematic NetworksNo overheads for Thematic Networks


Payment of Community ContributionPayment of Community Contribution Pre-financing in instalments up to 80% of EC contribution

40%

M0 M12 M24

Approval of deliverables and statement that consortium has incurred > 70% of earlier pre-financing.

40%

40%

Final payment after approval of all deliverables and financial statement

40%

40%

20%


Indicative calendarIndicative calendar

Date Event

July 2006 Publication of the work programme and call for proposals

October 2006 Call closure

November 2006 Evaluation

February 2007 Evaluation Summary Report to proposers

March 2007 Opening of negotiations

May 2007 Completion of negotiations, grant agreements signature


DocumentationDocumentation

eContentplus website: Work programme Call documentation Guide for proposers Model grant agreement

http://europa.eu.int/eContentplus

eContent plus mailing list:Notification on publication of work programme and call texthttp://europa.eu.int/eContentplus


Any assistance?Any assistance? eContentplus website:

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) Partner search Preproposal service

http://europa.eu.int/eContentplus

National Contact Point (NCP)Full list on: http://europa.eu.int/eContentplus

[email protected]

Documents

Πρόγραμμα eContentplus 2005-2008 Ενημερωτική ημερίδα Αθήνα, 27 Ιουλίου 2006 Πρόσκληση 2006 Σπύρος Πηλός