[I-RIM ML] ICT40 Network of Centers of Excellence in AI - CENTRIS Proposal

[I-RIM Admin]

Carissimi,

oltre ad aderire alla proposta CENTRIS, abbiamo un altro mezzo per 
rafforzarla: raccogliere lettere di supporto da parte di aziende, grandi 
e piccole.

Purtroppo i tempi sono stretti (la data sottomissione è il 13 Novembre), 
ma è ancora possibile scrivere o ottenere lettere utili che si 
aggiungono a quelle già raccolte dai coordinatori. Sarebbe ovviamente 
utile raccoglierne un buon numero dall'Italia, per riflettere il nostro 
peso nella comunità della robotica e dell'AI Europea.

Tutto quello che serve lo si può trovare a questo link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnfMe5RQdY2KKxaDAfe3_KuNmW_8e7uevyVn3D1ZQ_Y/edit?usp=sharing

  Altre informazioni le potete avere direttamente da

Tanja Robnik, Dipl. Soz.
E-Mail: tanja.robnik at tum.de

Saluti Cordiali

Antonio

On 11/5/2019 5:59 PM, Antonio Bicchi wrote:
> Cari amici robotici,
>
> questo messaggio alla nuova mailing list aperta di I-RIM ha avuto 
> difficoltà di invio. Lo rimando adesso *con un importante 
> aggiornamento* rispetto al messaggio che potete aver ricevuto 
> attraverso la vecchia lista di googlegroups (irim_ml at googlegroups.com).
>
> Per favore, seguite le istruzioni aggiornate e registratevi (se non lo 
> avete già fatto) nel portale della proposta 
> https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/ oltre che nel foglio 
> elettronico 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5xHbaZjToAdwJ1HN0r6RAqdKEtyVMlhEfKxfsC9BQc/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Grazie
>
> Antonio
>
> --------------------------
>
> Cari amici,
>
> as you might already know, a proposal is being prepared for the ICT-48 
> call to form a European-wide network of centers of excellence in AI 
> focusing on the second of four pillars called “Intelligent Robots”.The 
> coordinator of the CENTRIS proposal is Prof. Sami Haddadin, of TUM. A 
> message from Sami is appended below.
>
> The proposal philosophy is inclusive, in the sense that all 
> significant groups should be and feel involved, in one way or another. 
> The main management scheme will be cascade funding for a number of 
> agile seed projects, mainly oriented to young PIs from research, 
> startups and SMEs.
>
> There will be an important involvement of successful researchers and 
> established companies in drafting the strategies of the network, which 
> has the ambition to lay the fundaments of research and Innovation in 
> robotics and intelligent machines for the next decades. There will not 
> be very significant funding for any single partner.
>
> The rough idea is that groups with large dimensions (of the order of 5 
> independent PIs) should be members of the (large) consortium. They 
> will not have direct funding, but will be able to participate in calls 
> for projects within the consortium. The internal projects will be 
> roughly 2-300K € in size. We estimate that 60% of the total funding 
> will go towards these cascaded funds.
>
> Smaller groups will not be signatories of the grant contract from the 
> start, but will be able to participate in external calls for projects, 
> of similar size as internal.
>
> We estimate that 20% of the total funding will be dedicated to 
> external calls. The rest of the resources will be invested in the 
> management of the network, staff, travel and overhead of the 
> beneficiaries that will make the network management.
>
> Researchers involved in the strategy and management will not be 
> eligible for participation to the cascade funding schemes. The 
> principle behind all that is that the marginal utility of 
> participation in any of the roles (management partners, research 
> partners, and external) is the same. That is, everyone should be 
> equally happy (and unhappy).
>
> Further information can be found on our homepage:
>
> https://www.centris-ai.eu/
>
> *You are welcome to express your interest in participation by putting 
> your inputs in the form
> https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/ 
> <https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/>*
>
> *It will be also very useful to us if you complete the information 
> provided with entries in this spreadsheet 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5xHbaZjToAdwJ1HN0r6RAqdKEtyVMlhEfKxfsC9BQc/edit?usp=sharing 
> (the spreadsheet includes already few examples, please edit and 
> complete directly your rows).*
>
> The coordinator, Sami Haddadin, and his aides Tanja Robnik 
> <tanja.robnik at tum.de <mailto:tanja.robnik at tum.de>> and Jan Harder 
> <j.harder at tum.de> at TUM/MSRM, are in CC, and will follow up directly.
>
> All the best,
>
> Antonio
>
> ___________
>
> Message from Sami Haddadin, Coordinator of the CENTRIS proposal
>
>
> Dear friends and colleagues from the European robotics community,
>
> As many of you know and are already involved, we currently coordinate 
> a joint research proposal for the ICT-48 call to form a European-wide 
> network of centers of excellence in AI focusing on the second of four 
> pillars called “Intelligent Robots”. This is the first call in the 
> strategic agenda of Europe’s AI research. It aims for setting up a 
> network and support the community, so subsequent lines of action may 
> follow. It is sought to be inclusive and involve our entire community.
>
> With rather short time for writing such an important proposal, we are 
> in the process of gathering a strong alliance of as many European 
> robotics researches as possible. From this broad community that has 
> already met in parts at ICRA and recently in Paris, a task force 
> including
>
> Rachid Alami, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Tamim Asfour, Michael Beetz, Antonio 
> Bicchi, Aude Billard, Etienne Burdet, Wolfram Burgard, Raja Chatila, 
> Francois Chaumette, Daniel Cremers, Paolo Dario, Alessandro De Luca, 
> Paolo Fiorini, Sami Haddadin, Marco Hutter, Alois Knoll, Sabine 
> Köszegi, Danica Kragic, Maarja Kruusmaa, Cecilia Laschi, Andreas 
> Liebl, Achim Lilienthal, Giorgio Metta, Anibal Ollero, Angelika Peer, 
> Jan Peters, Alessandro Saffiotti, Giulio Sandini, Jose Santos-Victor, 
> Bruno Siciliano, Roland Siegwart, Thierry Simeon, Stefano Stramigioli, 
> Carme Torras, Ales Ude, Bram Vanderborght, Luigi Villani, Markus Vincze
>
> has recently been put together that started its work for consolidating 
> the discussed ideas into a convincing concept for our Robotics 
> Community. Now, we would like to ask you as members of our community 
> to actively get involved and become part of this joint effort, support 
> and help if you feel this is important and deserves your support!
>
> You are very welcome to express your interest in participation on our 
> homepage:
>
> https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/
>
> Soon, we will approach the entire community with subsequent steps and 
> hope you all support this wonderful and truly inclusive effort of our 
> European robotics community.
>
> At this point I also would like to introduce Tanja Robnik and Jan 
> Harder (tanja.robnik at tum.de <mailto:tanja.robnik at tum.de>; 
> j.harder at tum.de) at TUM / MSRM, they will serve as key point of 
> contacts so that communications run smoothly.
>
> All the very best,
>
> Sami & Rachid
>
>
> Coordinator / Co-Coordinator
>
>
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