On 03/26/2013 11:52 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Take in mind that EU research programmes come with an incredible > amount of burocracy and require both academic and industry partners, > the more the merrier. The projects that get funded are buzzword > compliant, but often nobody knows what they set out to do, except > divert EU money into the partnering institutions.
Buzzword compliance is not particularly a problem, except for the fact that you want to chew your own head off after writing all those sickening words ;-) And the bureaucracy is mainly a matter of time and effort -- it helps very much if you have some people who can effectively be full time preparing the grant proposal. But I agree that the academic/industry partnership is the key thing to get right. There is a bias towards prestigious institutions, and towards pan-European and cross-disciplinary projects that also bring in industry partners. So ideally I think that what you'd want to have is _at least_ two fairly prominent music colleges in different countries together with _at least_ two different computer science departments in different countries, _at least_ one reasonably well known music publisher, and preferably at least one other research group from a different discipline (in this case, educational research seems like an obvious choice). Reading not too deeply between the lines it looks like what they are really after is tablet and smartphone based learning solutions, with the goal being to get apps on popular devices. So you could also look for another industry partner in the form of developers for mobile/touch platforms. In fact the ideal might be an app that allows a well-known publisher to disseminate their published works on tablet/smartphone in a way that allows a great deal of interaction with those works. Would I be right in assuming that this is quite a UK-driven call for participation? It sounds like the sort of thing which is being pushed in British education. And, sad to say, it wouldn't surprise me if this call has been issued in anticipation of a preconceived product development by Sibelius (despite UK office defunct-ness), Finale or Steinberg, in collaboration with already selected academic partners ... _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel