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    <p>Buongiorno Marco<br>
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    <p>la sua email indirizzata all'intera lista è stata bloccata perché
      non di interesse per la lista stessa.</p>
    <p>Per quanto riguarda le sue domande, consideri che la gestione
      della proposta è nelle mani del coordinatore tedesco, per il quale
      stiamo facendo da tramite.</p>
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    <p>Ho cercato di trasmettere sempre puntualmente tutte le loro
      istruzioni, ma convengo con lei che sono state spesso tardive. Le
      suggerisco di provare a contattare direttamente i coordinatori per
      farsi riaprire i termini. <br>
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      Cordiali saluti,<br>
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      Antonio Bicchi<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/2019 2:43 PM, Marco Caimmi
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        Carissimi avrei bisogno di un'informazione.</div>
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        La settimana scorsa mi sono iscritto alla community e ho poi
        coperto che anche il collega Petitti aveva fatto la stessa cosa.
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        Liscrizione del collega Petitti risulta, la mi a non sembra
        ivece essere andata a buon fine, non è un grosso problema ma
        potreste controllare se è solo un aquesitone di aggiormamento
        del sito o se effettivamente non compaio?</div>
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        Nella realtà nel momento in cui ci siamo resi conto della
        dimensione della cosa abbiamo contattato il direttore di
        istituto Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti con il quale avevamo deciso di
        fare un'unica iscrizione di istituto indicando il suo nome come
        referente del gruppo di ricercatori del nostro istituto
        interessati.</div>
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        A tal fine ho raccolto io i nominativi che ho inserito nel file
        exel online ma non ho fatto in tempo a iscrivere l'istituto a
        nome di Lorenzo perché questa mattina il il portale per
        l'iscrizione era già chiuso. Ho poi visto che Antonio Bicchi (in
        cc) ha mandato una mail ieri sera dicedo che le iscrizioni
        chiudevano questa mattina alle ore 9:00 che non avevo visto in
        precendeti comunicazioni.<br>
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        Volevo quindi capire come dobbiamo comportarci. Possiamo
        iscrivere ancora il nostro istituto (STIIMA) con il gruppo
        completo  o dobbiamo invece appoggiarci all'iscrizione di
        Antonio Petitti di STIIMA ed eventualemnte aggiungere i
        partecipanti nella descizione dell'istituto? <br>
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        Ho inoltre visto che ci sono ricercatori di diversi istituti del
        CNR (almeno due, STIIMA e ISTC) ) che fanno ora parte della
        community. Avendo un unico PIC number dovremo presentarci
        comunemente come unico istituto?</div>
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        Eventualmente sentiamoci per telefono 3355719964<br>
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        Mille grazie,</div>
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        Marco<br>
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          face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> ML
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ml-bounces@lists.i-rim.it"><ml-bounces@lists.i-rim.it></a> on behalf of Antonio Bicchi
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          <b>Sent:</b> 05 November 2019 17:59<br>
          <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ml@lists.i-rim.it">ml@lists.i-rim.it</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ml@lists.i-rim.it"><ml@lists.i-rim.it></a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> [I-RIM ML] ICT40 Network of Centers of
          Excellence in AI - CENTRIS Proposal</font>
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 amici robotici,</span>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">questo messaggio alla
 nuova mailing list aperta di I-RIM ha avuto difficoltà di invio. Lo rimando adesso
<font color="#ff0000"><b>con un importante aggiornamento</b></font> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">rispetto
 al messaggio che potete aver ricevuto attraverso la vecchia lista di googlegroups (<a class="x_moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:irim_ml@googlegroups.com" moz-do-not-send="true">irim_ml@googlegroups.com</a>).</span></span></p>
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 favore, seguite le istruzioni aggiornate e registratevi (se non lo avete già fatto) nel portale della proposta
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/</a> oltre che nel foglio elettronico
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5xHbaZjToAdwJ1HN0r6RAqdKEtyVMlhEfKxfsC9BQc/edit?usp=sharing" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5xHbaZjToAdwJ1HN0r6RAqdKEtyVMlhEfKxfsC9BQc/edit?usp=sharing</a></span></span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Antonio
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Cari amici,</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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).</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Further information can
 be found on our homepage:</span></p>
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          <a href="https://www.centris-ai.eu/"
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          <b><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">You are welcome to express your interest in participation
 by putting your inputs in the form </span><br>
              <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/" id="LPlnk694010" class="" style="text-decoration:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="" style="text-decoration:underline; font-size:11pt; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font color="#ff0000">It
 will be also very useful to us if you complete the information provided with entries in this spreadsheet
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5xHbaZjToAdwJ1HN0r6RAqdKEtyVMlhEfKxfsC9BQc/edit?usp=sharing" moz-do-not-send="true">
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S5xHbaZjToAdwJ1HN0r6RAqdKEtyVMlhEfKxfsC9BQc/edit?usp=sharing</a> (the spreadsheet includes already few examples, please edit and complete directly your rows).</font></b>
</span></p>
        <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The coordinator, Sami
 Haddadin, and his aides Tanja Robnik <</span><a
          href="mailto:tanja.robnik@tum.de" style="text-decoration:none"
          moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">tanja.robnik@tum.de</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">and
 Jan Harder </span><a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:j.harder@tum.de" moz-do-not-send="true"><j.harder@tum.de></a> at TUM/MSRM, are in CC, and will follow up directly.</span>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">All the best,</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Antonio
</span></p>
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          margin-bottom:16pt"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">___________</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Message from Sami Haddadin,
 Coordinator of the CENTRIS proposal</span></p>
        <br>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Dear friends and colleagues
 from the European robotics community,</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;
          text-align:justify; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt">
          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt;
          margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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!</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">You are very welcome
 to express your interest in participation on our homepage:</span></p>
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          <a href="https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/"
            style="text-decoration:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.centris-ai.eu/join-our-community/</span></a></p>
        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">At this point I also
 would like to introduce Tanja Robnik and Jan Harder (</span><a
            href="mailto:tanja.robnik@tum.de"
            style="text-decoration:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">tanja.robnik@tum.de</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">;
<a class="x_moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:j.harder@tum.de" moz-do-not-send="true">j.harder@tum.de</a>) at TUM / MSRM, they will serve as key point of contacts so that communications run smoothly.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sami & Rachid</span></p>
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