NEST Adventure

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NEST Adventure

• Adventure - visionary research
  projects - develop new opportunities of
  ST - significant novelty, high ambition,
  high impact - high payoff, high
  risk - range of applications
• Indicative upper limit of 2MEUR
• Possible to exceed
• Evidence suggests EU prefers smaller projects
• Closing date 13th April 1700
• No further calls in FP6

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NEST Adventure

• Needs a name! Suggestions please???
• Needs a host - cant be CCLRC -
  could be Cockcroft - otherwise ?????
• Needs at least 3 participants in 3 member states
• US and Japan allowed (if justified), but dont
  count
• MS participants UK CCLRC, Cockcroft,
  Adams/Oxford, WR/Leeds others, e.g.
  NHS? France Saclay, Grenoble Switzerland
  CERN, PSI Others?
• Industry (SMEs) - IBA (Be) -
  Philips (Nl)

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What to ask for?

• Cost of e-model 2M RF injext ?
• Will know by/during workshop
• Probably above NEST limit
• Options (1) Propose full e-model anyway
  gt2MEUR (2) BT approach 2MEUR for staff and part
  h/w (3) safe approach 1MEUR for staff for DS
• Comments?

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NEST

• Proposal has two sections B description
  of project, 5 pages, easy A usual three
  forms A1 coordinator

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A2 one per participant (institute)
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NEST
A3 coordinator, with input from each participant
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NEST
Not too difficult, but ALL requested funds must
contribute to e-model construction