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add this to-do item to your calendarFP7 ICT: Future Emerging Technologies open call (FET-Open)
Due: Monday 31st December 2012
Organisation: European Commission
WWW: ec.europa.eu/fp7calls?callIdentifier=FP7-ICT-2011-C
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Radically new ideas can come anytime, from anybody and from anywhere. They obviously do not necessarily fit within predefined topical calls, nor are they comfortable with strict submission deadlines. FET-Open is specifically designed to be open and responsive to such fresh courageous thinking. It aims to give promising but still fragile ideas the opportunity to mature into a credible and well-founded new direction of research.
What is common to all objectives under FET-Open is that they seek proposals on radically new concepts and visions of the nature and use of information and information technologies, grounded in scientifically plausible and often inter-disciplinary ideas on how to achieve them.
In spite of the high risk of failure, FET-Open projects can be the first step on the way towards future European scientific and industrial leadership in areas that today simply do not exist yet.
The FET-Open scheme is unique in that it applies a two step submission process in which short proposals of maximum 5 pages can be submitted at anytime. Only proposers of the most promising ideas are then invited to submit a full proposal. This design makes the scheme highly responsive while the overhead for the proposing consortium in case of failure to pass the evaluation is minimized.
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