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I have recently joined the GEM and MCG lists and thought I should introduce myself. My name is Henrietta Hopkins, I am the Museum Development Officer at the Museums & Galleries Commission (MGC) with responsiblity for advising on international links, tourism and visitor services. Under my international links remit I try to get as much information as possible out to museums on international opportunities, including European funding, and it seems sensible to post information I receive on these issues to these lists. The MGC has recently received information from the International Arts Bureau and the DTI on the Ten-Telecom call for proposals for Generic Services and Applications. Ten Telecom is a programme run by Directorate General (DG) XIII of the European Commission. The information pack states that: The overall objective of the call is to support projects using Internet based technology and exploiting a variety of available network infrastuctures to: * spread the use of information technology among European citizens; * improve the competiveness of Europe's SMEs; * increase effectiveness of services to the public. The closing date for applications is 4 June 1999. Of particular interest to museums is section `T1-2.2 Access to Europe's cultural heritage', through which the Commission wishes to improve scholarly and public access to museums and galleries by supporting initiatives such as: * virtual museums and galleries * the development of digital cultural content providers * intermuseum cooperation and networking on thematic multimedia exhibitions. The International Arts Bureau's consultant has recently attended a conference which discussed Ten-Telecom. Apparently DGXIII have been disappointed in the standard of applications from museums and galleries to previous Ten-Telecom calls. They feel that business plans have not been strong enough and do not express the development of the trans-European aspect of telematic services. They also think that issues surrounding copyright and marketing are not being clearly addressed in applications. For more information on Ten-Telecom you could attend the UK Information Day on 26 March at the IBM Conference Centre in London - contact [log in to unmask] for further information. However, at this short notice you might find it easier to visit the DTI's useful website on European funding programmes for IT at: http://www.ukishelp.co.uk which has a link to DGXIII's website and the call for proposal itself. Also we have just received this from Concha Fernandez de la Puente at DGXIII: > The first call for proposal for the IST programme was published on 19 > March 1999. This call includes Action Line III.2.3: "Access to > scientific and cultural heritage". The Call will be open until 15 June > 1999. > > DGXIII/E-2 has prepared a page for the call the digitcult web site: > http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/fp5/mrchcall.html. This page contains > links to the main documents related to the call (official documents) > and to some partner finding tools that the Commission is making > available to potential proposers. > I hope this is of some help - sorry some of the hyper-links don't seem to be working. Henrietta Hopkins Museum Development Officer (International links, tourism & visitor services) Musums & Galleris Commission 16 Queen Anne's Gate London SW1H 9AA Tel: 0171-233 4200 Fax: 0171-233 3686 e-mail [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%