EURIDICE Kick off Meeting

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EURIDICEKick off Meeting

• 11 - 13 February 2008
• Venezia IT

Myriam Coulon Cantuer, Emilio Dávila Gonzalez
Wolfgang Höfs - ICT for Transport Directorate
General Information Society and Media European
Commission
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Contents

• Call 1 overview
• Objectives
• Submission and evaluation results
• Commissions role in EURIDICE
• Tomorrow Procedual aspects
• Grant Agreement structure
• Reporting procedures

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Objective ICT-2007-6.1ICT for Intelligent
Vehicles Mobility Services

• aimed at
• new generation advanced driver assistance systems
  to offer a higher degree of safety through
  accident prevention based on improved hazard
  detection, sensing and integration of systems
• mobility services which make transport of people
  and good safer, more secure, efficient,
  comfortable and environment-friendly
• ramping up of Field Operational Tests
• focusing on the sub-areas
• Intelligent Vehicle Systems
• Mobility Services for People
• Mobility Services for Goods
• Coordination and Support Actions (related to
  Standardisation and Agreed Specifications
  Ramping up of Field Operational Tests Mobility
  Services for People and Goods)

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Main aspects of the objective

• Increasing demand for mobility in Europe
  congestion, energy consumption, pollution,
  accidents causing fatalities
• Up to 2010 26 vehicle-km, 38 goods
  transport, loss of 4 GDP if nothing is done
• -50 in road fatalities in EU25 by 2010
• Strategic Research Agendas eSafety Forum gt
  i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative, ERTRAC

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Overview of Selection

• Very good coverage of the WP
• 78 eligible proposals (84 submitted)
• 31 met the evaluation thresholds
• 14 proposed for funding

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Evaluation results
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Contents

• Call 1 overview
• Objectives
• Submission and evaluation results
• Commissions role in EURIDICE
• Tomorrow Procedual aspects
• Grant Agreement structure
• Reporting procedures

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Commissions role

• Ensure that the EU financial contribution is
  provided under the conditions established by the
  grant agreement
• Monitor the scientific, technological and
  financial execution of the project
• Carry out review, analysis and approval of
  deliverables
• within the periods indicated in the grant
  agreement

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EURIDICE

• Mission
• Multidisciplinary research to use ICT for
  implementation of Mobility Services for Goods
  based on the Intelligent Cargo concept

• Intelligent Cargo
• Goods flowing through Europe will be
• Self-aware,
• Context-aware
• Interconnected via (global) communication networks

• Research Tasks
• Provision of an Intelligent Cargo Integration
  Framework
• Providing interoperable network and service
  infrastructure
• on the fly services combination
• Assessment in four pilot applications
• Industry / distribution applications
• Intermodal transport
• Logistics operators services
• Authorities and infrastructure services
• Impact Creation
• Dissemination, Outreach Training
• Business modelling

Coordinator INSIEL Total costs 14.08 k EC
contribution 8.25K Start date
1/01/2008 Duration 36 months www.???.eu
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other challenges
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last, but not least

• Good luck! and success fun
• Coordinates
• Wolfgang Höfs, DG INFSO G4
• wolfgang.hoefs_at_ec.europa.eu, ? 32 2 29 56877
• Website
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society/activitie
  s/esafety/index_en.htm
• eSafetySupport website
• http//www.esafetysupport.org

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Contents

• Call 1 overview
• Objectives
• Submission and evaluation results
• Commissions role in ltProjectgt
• Procedual aspects
• Grant Agreement structure
• Reporting procedures

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Grant Agreement structure (1)

• Core grant agreement
• Standard, complemented with projects specifics
• Annex I (Description of work)
• Part A (Budget breakdown and project summary)
• Part B (Concept and objectives, progress beyond
  state-of-the-art, S/T methodology and work plan
  Implementation Potential impact Ethical
  issues if applicable Consideration of gender
  aspects optional
• Annex II
• Part A Implementation of the project
• Part B Financial provisions
• Part C Intellectual Property Rights, Use and
  Dissemination

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Grant Agreement structure (2)

• Annex III
• Not applicable in DG INFSO
• Annex IV (Form A)
• Accession of beneficaries to the grant agreement
• Annex V (Form B)
• Request for accession of a new beneficiary to the
  grant agreement
• Annex VI (Form C different forms per
  instrument)
• Financial statement per funding scheme
• Equivalent to former cost statement
• To be submitted by each contractor annually via
  the coordinator

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Grant Agreement structure (3)

• Annex VII (Forms D and E)
• Form D - Terms of reference for the
  certification on the financial statement
• Form E Terms of reference for the certificate
  on the methodology
• Special clauses
• Available on cordis.europa.eu

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Reporting (1)

• Periodic (i.e. annual) Reports
• Financial reporting
• Publishable summary
• Project objectives for the period
• Work progress and achievements during the period
• Deliverables and milestones tables
• Project Management
• Explanation of the use of the resource
• Financial statements - Forms C and Summary
  financial report (signed originals sent in
  parallel by post)
• Certificates (signed originals sent in parallel
  by post )

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Reporting (2)

• To be submitted within 60 days after the end of
  the reporting period
• Include an extensive explanation of any major
  costs incurred by each beneficiary
• personnel costs, the purchase of important
  equipment, subcontracting items, large consumable
  items (amount, date of purchase, supplier, short
  description) or travel costs (date of trip,
  person travelling, destination, purpose, cost per
  trip), etc

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Reporting (3)

• Certificates on the Financial Statement
• Due when 375 kEURO of funding is reached
• To be submitted within 60 days after the end of
  the reporting period
• Guidelines on reporting
• Available on cordis.europa.eu
• Audits
• The Commission may carry out audits at any time
  during the implementation of the project and up
  to five years after the end of the project
• Audits may cover financial, systemic and other
  aspects (e.g. accounting and/or management
  principles) relating to the proper execution of
  the grant agreement.

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Payment modalities

• One pre-financing (upon entry into force) for the
  whole duration minus guarantee fund
• Interim payments based on financial statements
  (EC contribution amounts justified accepted
  funding rate)
• Retention (10)
• Final payment