Forwarded by Bruce Royan to the SCRAN Mailing list. This may be of
interest to those looking for EU project funding.
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An IST information day was held in Paris on 22 February 1999,
attended by over 4000 people.
There will be two Calls for Proposals under the IST programme in
1999. These will be on 16 March and 15 September. The Action
Lines of greatest interest to libraries, museums and archives are
AL III.2.3 and III.2.4. These are covered by the Cultural
Heritage Applications unit (DG XIII/E-2) which includes many staff
from the former Electronic Publishing and Libraries unit.
Not all Actions Lines will feature in all CfPs.
The 16 March CfP will include Action Line III.2.3: Access to
scientific and cultural heritage. The deadline will be 16 June.
The 15 September CfP will include Action Line III.2.4: Digital
preservation of cultural heritage. The deadline is likely to be in
December.
A feature of the IST programme will be a revised Workprogramme
each year - there will be no fixed Workprogramme for the whole
programme as previously.
In addition to the fixed deadline Calls, there will be a continous
submission scheme for the open domain of future and emerging
technologies, and for a number of IST programme support measures.
For further information see the Web at;
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome
and the Guide to Proposers Part II: Continuous Submission Scheme.
Help for potential proposers is available from the IST Information
Desk:
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: + 32 2 296 83 88
National Contact Points have been established in Member States and
other countries. The UK contact point for the IST programme can be
contacted as follows:
UK IS HELP line: 0870 606 1515
UK IS HELP fax: 0181 848 6660
UK IS HELP email: [log in to unmask]
The following documents were made available to participants:
1999 IST Workprogramme.
Guide for Proposers (draft; 3 volumes).
IST Programme general outlines, scientific and technological
objectives and priorities.
The following documents are not yet available:
Evaluation Manual (expected to be on Web end February).
Model Contracts (expected to be on Web in April).
Call text for 16 March Call (expected on Web end Feb, and will be
published in Official Journal).
The IST Web site is:
http://www.cordis.lu/ist
Please see the Web for futher information and documentation, or
contact the
IST Help Desk or UK IS Help.
Information from IST Information Day, Paris, 22 February 1999.
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Rosalind Johnson
European Consultant
Library and Information Commission
5th Floor
19-29 Woburn Place
London WC1H 0LU
tel: + 44 (0)171 273 8710 (main)
tel: + 44 (0)171 273 8716 (direct)
fax: + 44 (0)171 273 8701
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David Dawson
Museums New Technology Adviser, Museums and Galleries Commission
tel: 0171 233 4200, email: [log in to unmask]
see the Sharing Museums Skills Millennium Awards website -
http://www.smsma.org.uk
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