Transcript - Lorentz Center

Funding
Lorentz workshop Music Similarity
19-23 January 2015
Money make the world go around
• Funding opportunities
• Fundable topics
• Consortia
Funding opportunities
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HERA, Uses of the Past, http://heranet.info
Digging into Data, http://diggingintodata.org/
– Canada, UK, US, Netherlands
– Ich is happy to help with Canadian connection on this.
– Success rate has traditionally been fairly high (~30–40%).
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H2020 Excellent Science
– ERC starting, consolidator, advanced
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Unrestricted personal grants
Informatics vs. humanities route: Think about likely reviewers
No subgroup for digital humanities
Jean-Julien Aucouturier: ‘Cracking the Emotional Code of Music’
Women receive 18 months of extension per child
– FET
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Periodic open calls
Average budget of €1.5M
Low success rates
Mandate to seek out projects that are struggling to find funding from other sources
One previous ‘proactive’ call had a workgroup to write the very call to which the participants applied
– Marie-Curie, ITN/ETN
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Can ask for a number of PhD positions over 4 years (3 years plus recruitment
15 PhDs with 6–8 partners, including industrial partners (but including cultural heritage institutions like
museums and libraries)
Often difficult to find candidates, as they must come from outside your own country
Individual grants are also available
Mandate to increase Europe’s ‘competitive advantage’
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H2020 Industrial Leadership
– ICT-16 Big Data Research
– ICT 19: Creative industries
– ICT-20 Technologies for better human learning and teaching
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ESF
– Currently restructuring; no open calls.
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Coordinating Science and Technology (COST; www.cost.eu)
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Threshold for funding is low, but there is not much money
Can be dependent on the configuration of the council; ‘trans-domain’ council is recommended
Also undergoing reorganisation that may involve ad hoc review boards depending on applications submitted,
but guidelines are not yet public
Consortium is only built later
Frans will work on a proposal on Game Music
Interreg (Inter-regional; www.interreg4c.eu/programme/funding/)
Smaller projects between at least two countries.
Call should open in a few months.
Gert Lanckriet’s Benefunder seeks private donors for projects (benefunder.org)
Ambient Assisted Living
Handy links:
– https://www.euresearch.ch/en/
https://www.researchprofessional.com/
http://www.vleva.eu/eusubsidiegids
Fundable topics
• Cultural heritage
– E.g., transcribing, digitising, or sharing music.
– Preventing loss of cultural identity; save it now.
– If one can do X for music (which encompassed audio, video, images,
and text), one can do X for anything.
– Collect opinions and agreement from ground-truth annotators during
cultural heritage projects.
• Cf. workshop discussions on style, salience, and expressivity
• Health
– Music therapy
– Alzheimer ’s disease and dementia
– Social inclusion, active ageing
• Education
• H2020 Grand Challenges
– Must read call very carefully to find the right hook
– Health, Food, Energy, Transport, Climate, Societies, Security
• Understanding health, ageing, and disease
• App development for driving (Android API)
• Reviewers
Cross-cutting issues
– Many programs have no obvious place for the digital humanities.
– Both humanists and informaticians can be biased against our type of work in
the worst case Interdisciplinary committees may or may not be a solution if
fights over funding ensue
– Sometimes it is important to blacklist particular reviewers with strong biases
• Budget planning and partner contributions
– Already-digitised collections can be considered as in-kind contributions
– Small companies are often less well-funded than universities (especially in
creative industries).
– Some calls are requiring an increasing percentage of contributions in cash
• One deliverable per project per year (civil servants) vs. academic reviewers
(often asking for over-promises)?
• What is happening to basic research?
– Movement in some countries toward unrestricted personal grants for basic
research; larger grants must have more demonstrable value
– Attempts to measure ‘impact’ of research as a means of avoiding the
quantity–quality trade-off
• Postdocs & PhD students
– Important for postdocs and PhDs to be involved in grant preparation
Consortia
• HERA proposal on computational musicology: Frans & Tim
• COST initiative on multidisciplinary evaluation
– Most useful as a network initiative
– Instrument to keep a good idea alive, est practices
– Emphasis on qualitative rather than quantitative aspects
• Infrastructure programmes
– Distributed computer systems for metadata about music
• Big data call (ICT-16): Tillmann
• Startups are often willing to take part in consortia and may
be able to promise hours even if they cannot promise cash.
Contact Bas de Haas for ideas
• Anja & Elaine will keep track of consortia that emerged
from this workshop – but we must let them know!
Ackn
• Notes by Ashley were included in these slides