News: Announcement of the Call for SME proposals for projects accessing VI-SEEM Resources and Services

Announcement of the Call for SME proposals for projects accessing VI-SEEM Resources and Services

Dear colleagues,

this is the announcement of the Call for SME proposals for projects
accessing VI-SEEM Resources and Services. Please disseminate this
announcement, and especially follow up the SMEs that they declared here

https://app.box.com/s/pu18u8ie3osdopg0z25ynefh9ppy2p73

Thank you and best regards,
Dusan Vudragovic

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Call for SME proposals for projects accessing VI-SEEM Resources and Services

https://vi-seem.eu/2017/11/15/sme-call/

VI-SEEM offers a broad set of generic as well as application-specific
services in the region of South-eastern Europe and the Eastern
Mediterranean, with special focus on the scientific communities of Life
Sciences, Climatology and Digital Cultural Heritage. Such services are in
the areas of Compute resource provisioning, Storage and Data services
provisioning, Dataset provisioning, Software and Scientific Workflow
provisioning as well as Application Specific service provisioning. These
services create a unique Virtual Research Environment (VRE), thus improving
research productivity and competitiveness on the pan-European level. VI-SEEM
supports open calls to scientific communities in the region in the form of
resource pooling between the resource providers.

VI-SEEM is opening a specific continuous Call for Proposals for
preparatory/development projects accessing the VI-SEEM services and
associated infrastructure specifically for partnerships involving SMEs and
academic/research institutions. The call is addressed to consortia of
scientists and researchers and SMEs that work in academic/research
institutions and SMEs located in the region of South Eastern Europe and
Eastern Mediterranean. More specifically countries are (in alphabetical
order): Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Cyprus, Egypt, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Greece,
Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia.

The project proposals should address non-proprietary/open research topics in
the specific fields of Life Sciences, Climate research, and Digital Cultural
Heritage.

Via this call VI-SEEM opens possibilities for regional SMEs and scientists
from the selected scientific fields to have access, via joint projects, to
the advanced resources and services that it offers. The list of services and
resources offered by the VI-SEEM VRE can be found at:
https://services.vi-seem.eu and in the VI-SEEM VRE at:
https://vre.vi-seem.eu. VI-SEEM Cloud and Grid services are not provided
through this call.

Access to underlying computational and storage resources will be awarded for
a maximum period of 3 months. Access to the VI-SEEM data repository service
might be granted for up to 12 months (see the relevant section).

All the details of the call and the application form are available at:

https://vi-seem.eu/2017/11/15/sme-call/