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2005 Call for LIAMA Seed Project Proposals
Deadline : April 15th, 2005
Principles
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LIAMA, the Sino-French Laboratory in
Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics was created in
1997 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the French National
Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA). In a
second phase, in 2000, the French National Center for Scientific
Research (CNRS) and the French Center dedicated to International
Cooperation for Research in Agronomy and Development (CIRAD)
joined in.
In the frame of an annual call, LIAMA did brought support to a wide
range of collaborative Sino-French research projects in various
domains, while increasing research activities developed on site with
permanent seniors and students from both countries.
A third phase, was signed end of 2004 by CAS, CASIA (The Institute of
Automation hosting LIAMA), INRIA, CNRS, CIRAD, and the
French National Institute for Research in Agronomy (INRA) and the
French Research Institute for GeoSciences (BRGM).
This phase aims at reaching scientific excellence on LIAMA's site on a
limited number of projects with a strong Sino-French collaborative
frame, open to Europe and internationally.
Current "On Site Projects" are the following:
This LIAMA "Seed Project" first call for proposal is launched by the
LIAMA consortium with the aim to develop and reinforce high level
collaborative research activities within LIAMA laboratory.
The goal of LIAMA "Seed Projects" is to evolve into LIAMA "On Site
Project" in the frame of LIAMA scientific priorities.
The LIAMA "Seed Projects” are therefore a way to open LIAMA to new
projects or to strengthen exiting "On Site Projects".
"Seed Projects" are bottom-up initiatives presented by at least two
scientists (French and Chinese), whose collaboration is starting or
already established and willing to develop very active ties, common
research work and research activities.
Application
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Proposals should involve at least one senior French
scientist and one senior Chinese scientist.
Proposals should be carried by two coordinators:
one French, one Chinese.
Proposals from LIAMA funding partners (CASIA, CAS, INRIA, CNRS, CIRAD,
BRGM and INRA) are welcome. Proposals from other research institutions
will also be considered, providing the fact that these institutions
have already an on-going collaboration with LIAMA, or that the main
collaborative work will be hosted in LIAMA’s walls.
Proposals involving more partners are also welcome, they may be
European research institutions or industries.
Scientific
priorities for 2005 ->
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The main focus of LIAMA is : Image, Vision and Life Sciences.
This year, the corresponding scientific priorities are the following :
Computer Vision,
Remote Sensing Image Understanding
Extraction, Recognition, Modeling, Synthesizing
Patterns in Nature
Functional Modeling, Simulation and Visualization in
Life Sciences
Computer Graphics and Geometry
Data Extraction and Processing in Life Sciences and
Environmental Sciences
Decision Support Systems
Calendar
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February
15th, 2005
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Call
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April 15th, 2005
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Deadline for proposals submission |
POSTPONED...
(May 10th, 2005)
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Results
and funding announcement
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Results
Proposal submission mode is electronic. Call text
and proposal form are
available on LIAMA web site :
Call : http://liama.ia.ac.cn/callseed.htm
Form : http://liama.ia.ac.cn/callseedf05.htm
Proposal description language is English.
Download proposal submission form (here),
fill it and send it (in pdf or htm format) to Chinese or French LIAMA
directors:
Prof. Hu Baogang : hubg@nlpr.ia.ac.cn
or Marc Jaeger : jaeger@liama.ia.ac.cn
Selection process -> top
The “Seed Projects” selection process is
performed by LIAMA Scientific Council composed of:
- 6 European members: 5 French members, representatives of the
LIAMA French consortium (INRIA, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA and BRGM) and 1
external European member
- 6 Chinese members: the representatives of MOST, the
representatives of CASIA and CAS, and 3 external Chinese members.
The selection is based on the scientific merit of the proposals, the
potential impact on LIAMA’s development on a mid term range, and the
proposal relevance to the scientific priorities of the current call.
Funding -> top
Average funding allocated to a LIAMA Seed Project in
2005, on an annual base, will approximately be 15,000 € but may vary
significantly from one to another .
The funds will be made available a couple of days after the results are
announced.
The “Seed Project” funding may be use :
- to support travel for senior scientists, PhD students,
post-doctoral students ;
- to invite and host senior scientists and
students on a reciprocal basis ;
- to invite researchers as lecturers in summer schools or
workshops;
- to organize bilateral thematic workshops ;
- to help develop promotional material (reports, CDRom) ;
- to organize tutorials connected to international conferences ;
- to help develop promotional material (reports, CDRom, ...) ;
as long as the underlying purpose is to foster exchanges and communal
research within LIAMA.
Post-docs may carry out their research with
the most appropriate initiative partner from the scientific point of
view, as long as it is not the team in which their Ph.D. was prepared.
They can also share their time between several partners.
Note that funding can also be used to support mobility of doctoral and
Postdoctoral scientists but cannot be assimilate to PhD or Postdoctoral
grants.
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