AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH. So let me get this right : the plan to ask the CNRS some money in order to help you ask the Europe even MORE money, and it is assumed that a percentage of the bigger grant will go to a guy whose full-time job is to ask for money ?
If there is something wrong in the world of research, I can't see it. Nathann On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:18:12 PM UTC+1, Paul-Olivier Dehaye wrote: > > I am completely inexperienced with this, but: > - I have heard people around me say that with this type of grant support > for preparation of a grant, professional grant writers should be hired. > They help write the not-so-scientific portion of the grant. > - I have heard first hand from a "Principal Administrator of a unit in > DG CONNECT" that these writers do make a difference. > - I have also heard that some of those grant writers work like tort > lawyers, and get paid only if the grant is funded. They then get paid some > percentage of the administration budget of the grant, and that this is > allowed. > I can ask for more details if you would like. > Paul > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery > <nicolas...@u-psud.fr<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Dear colleagues, >> >> At the occasion of a presentation of the European H2020 call for >> grants, I started discussing opportunities for Sage with Eugénia >> Shadlova (in charge of European projects at Université Paris-Sud) and >> Jean-Pierre Caminade (research infrastructure mission in the french >> research ministry). From those discussions, it seems a good bet could >> be the call EINFRA-9: e-Infrastructure for Virtual Research >> Environment. The time line would be a submission in January 2015, >> with funding starting 8 month after the submission. >> >> So now is a good time to start thinking about it. This in particular >> since the French CNRS INS2I institute is offering support (up to 5000 >> euros) for preparing such proposals, with an application deadline on >> the 21st (this Friday!). This money could be used e.g. to organize a >> Sage-Days this year geared toward this grant (and real work too!). >> >> European H2020 calls concern countries in Europe as well as associated >> countries and third countries as listed on [1]. Just to mention a >> couple where I can think of Sage developers and users from the top of >> my head, this includes e.g. Switzerland, Israel, Senegal, or South >> Africa. >> >> If you would tentatively be interested in joining as a participant, >> PI, or even better lead PI, please get in touch with me at any time, >> specifying: >> >> - Name, e-mail >> - trac & github account if you have them >> - Status, institute (I can derive that from the main page of >> trac.sagemath.org if the information there is up to date) >> >> I have setup a git project for this would-be proposal [2]. A mailing >> list is coming too. I will add all the participants there so that they >> can start editing the information. >> >> The draft of project grew up from previous attempts at the scale of >> Sage-Combinat in France; there remains traces which should of course >> be cleared. Also other grant opportunities c/should be explored! >> (e.g. Paul-Olivier mentioned COST networks). And again: if anyone >> feels like taking on / sharing the lead, please!!! >> >> Please forward this to whoever might be interested. >> >> Cheers, >> Nicolas >> >> [1] >> http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/cross-cutting-issues/international-cooperation_en.htm >> [2] https://github.com/nthiery/sagemath-grant-europe/ >> >> -- >> Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nth...@users.sf.net <javascript:>> >> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-combinat-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> sage-comb...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
