Faculty of Engineering and Computing - Research
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Resources for Current Faculty Researchers
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| 1. Funding Calendar | 5. Research Student Submission Deadlines | ||
| 2. Successful Proposal Bank | 6. Transfer from PhD Track to PhD Register | ||
| 3. FP7 ICT Call 3 | 7. Research Fees for 07-08 | ||
| 4. FP7 Ethics Overview | 8. Research Student Payments | ||
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1. Funding Calendar
We have compiled a Funding Calendar, detailing Research Grants under the following headings:
Research Funding |
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Business |
Collaborative Projects |
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Funding for Travel (Click here for Travel Funding Calendar) |
Support Initiatives |
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(updated January 31st, 2008) |
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2. Successful Proposal Bank
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These successful proposals were generously supplied by your colleagues. Please respect their generosity. Treat this proposal as confidential. Do not distribute outside of DCU.
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The proposal bank relies on researchers like you. If you have a successful proposal, please submit it to raymond.kelly@dcu.ie.
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Pre-proposal submission: 17 September 2007 at 13:00 Invitation to submit full proposal: On or before 30 November 2007 Full proposal submission: 14 January 2008 at 13:00 Award Notification: End March 2008 Click here for SFI Research Frontiers Programme Website |
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2007 |
Computer Science |
Dr. Claus Pahl |
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2007 |
Engineering: Electrical & Electronic |
Prof. Liam Barry |
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2007 |
Computer Science |
Dr. Michael Scott |
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2007 |
Computer Science |
Prof. Heather Ruskin |
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2007 |
Computer Science |
Dr. Jennifer McManis |
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2006 |
Computer Science |
Prof. Andy Way |
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2006 |
Computer Science |
Dr. Gareth Jones |
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2006 |
Engineering: Electrical & Electronic |
Prof. Liam Barry |
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2005 |
Computer Science |
Dr. Alistair Sutherland |
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2005 |
Engineering: Electrical & Electronic |
Dr. Pascal Landais |
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2005 |
Engineering: Electrical & Electronic |
Dr. Conor Brennan |
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2004 |
Computer Science |
Prof. Josef van Genabith |
3. FP7 ICT Call 3
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ICT Call 3 was published on 4th December 2007 |
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The budget for the call is 265 M€. |
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The closing date is April 8th 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) |
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A one-stage submission procedure will be followed. |
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Full details are available on the Cordis Website (here) |
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An abridged form of the ICT 2007-2008 Work Programme is available here. This version only contains details relevant to ICT Call 3 and FET Open |
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The first page contains links to all of the relevant topics, so you won't need to waste time searching for your topic of interest! |
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Topics are:
ICT-2007.2.2: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
ICT-2007.4.3: Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning
ICT-2007.4.4: Intelligent content and semantics
ICT-2007.8.4: Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT
ICT-2007.8.5: Embodied intelligence
ICT-2007.8.6: ICT forever yours
ICT-2007.9.2: International cooperation
Click on the topics for the corresponding work programme extract.
Most of the topics are self-explanatory, but for ease and clarity, I have included an overview of "ICT forever yours" below.
The mass diffusion of digital systems and their pervasiveness in our everyday lives increases our expectations on the dependability, security and longevity of these systems.
This requires new built-in mechanisms for enhancing confidence in their usage, for protecting them from malicious intents and for preserving them from the threat of ageing, in the context of highly decentralised and incremental development and deployment practices. Projects should focus on one or several of the following:
· Eternal Systems: to develop a theoretical and practical framework for extremely longlived systems, requiring minimal intervention and management to thrive in spite of changes in usage, host device, network context or data- and data protection formats. Systems should be future proof, able to preserve and update their original functionality in a machine-independent way, and ultimately by being self-sustaining and evolving.
· Knowledge, diversity and time: New approaches for eternal and reliable access to knowledge assets, in which knowledge parts are produced locally, but exploited globally, and are endowed with ‘a sense of time and context’ to make them robust against ageing, diversity of use and evolving semantics.
· Secure and dependable software: methods and tools for high-level verifiably secure and dependable programming, and new metrics to aid assessability of the security and dependability of highly distributed and heterogeneous software or of ambient systems.
Explanation of Funding Schemes
Explanation of Countries (Associated Countries, Third Countries etc.)
4. FP7 Ethics Overview
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Ethical evaluation will form a key pillar of FP7. Research proposals that have successfully come through scientific evaluation are subject to an ethical evaluation. For the applicant, this means that ethical concerns must be identified and addressed within the proposal.
Proposals that ignore ethical concerns will be rejected - unlike FP6, the commission will not get back to the applicant asking for further information. If the applicant has made a credible attempt to address the ethical issues, but some queries remain, clarification may be sought. However, it is important to remember that the panel will not be obliged to seek further information. The proposal can be failed on the basis of the ethical information (or lack thereof) given in the submitted proposal. Best advice therefore, is to get it right first time.
For FP7 applications, Scientific Evaluators will be asked to fill out an “Ethical Issues Report” (Click here for a copy of the report) on proposals. This will examine proposals under 7 headings. The headings are listed below with links to the FP7 guide documents for those headings.
Alternatively, to save time, the content of the official documents on how to deal with the different headings have been pasted onto a single navigatable webpage |
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Informed Consent Link |
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Research on Human Embryo/ Foetus Link |
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Data Protection & Privacy Link |
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Research on animals Link |
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Research Involving Developing Countries Link |
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Dual Use (i.e., potential military/terrorist application of research) Link |
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Other Ethical Issues |
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Certain types of research will be excluded from funding, other types of research will be automatically sent for a full ethical review, and further types of research may trigger an ethical review, depending on how they are handled. These areas are all indicated on the Ethical Issues Report.
Advice from Mary Fitzgerald (European Commission’s Ethics Review Team) is to view the Ethical Issues Table that must be submitted with applications as an opportunity to highlight how you have dealt with the ethical issues. Answering “none of the above issues apply to my proposal”, will not absolve you from ethical evaluation. The evaluator will still examine your proposal and come to his/her own conclusions about whether or not your proposal raises ethical issues. If they find that your proposal raises ethical issues, but you have answered “none of the above issues apply to my proposal” they will assume that you have no understanding of, or respect for, the importance of ethical considerations.
In addition, stock answers such as “the proposed research will comply with University, National and EU guidelines on data protection” will not be considered adequate. These kind of answers increase the chances of being referred for full ethical review.
Mary Fitzgerald has outlined some common mistakes which are made with regards to ethics. Click here to find out what not to do!
Further Information ResourcesFP7 Ethics Website Link Technology Ireland article of FP7 ethics (written by Mary Fitzgerald) Link Mary Fitzgerald (European Commission's Ethics Review Team & UCC Graduate) is happy to give advice to applicatants. Her e-mail is mary.fitzgerald@ec.europa.eu |
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5. Research Student Submission Deadlines
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Please note that all of the Research forms mentioned below are available online here
Should you have any queries in relation to the information below, please contact Registry at 01 700 5944 or 01 700 8489.
Research Submission Dates – Academic Year 2007/2008
SUBMISSION DATES FOR SPRING CONFERRINGPostgraduate research students who wish to be considered by the Spring 2008 Faculty Awards Boards for Research Degrees on 06 – 08 February 2008 must ensure that the documentation listed below is submitted to Student Awards, Registry (Henry Grattan Building) at the latest by dates shown below:
SUBMISSION DATES FOR AUTUMN CONFERRINGPostgraduate research students who wish to be considered by the Autumn 2008 Faculty Awards Boards for Research Degrees on 01 – 03 October 2008 must ensure that the documentation listed below is submitted to Student Awards, Registry (Henry Grattan Building) at the latest by the dates shown below:
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6. Transfer from PhD Track to PhD Register
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7. Research Fees for 07-08
Full-time EU: €4224 (Years 1-3)
Non-EU: €10,000
Full-time EU: €2112 (Year 4 onwards)
Non-EU: €5,000
Part-time EU: €2534 (Years 1-5)
Non-EU:€6,000
Part-time EU: €1267 (Year 6 onwards)
Non-EU: €3,000
8. Research Student Payments
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Note from Tanya with regard to Research student Payments
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ATTN: FACULTY RESEARCH SUPERVISORS Hi All I am now looking after all of these payments in our faculty. As such, to follow is an explantion of the process for this faculty in 07/08.
OVPR and the relevant administrators across the University have been working to try and simplify this process for all concerned parties. I, in turn, have met with the School Heads regarding (a) the stipend payment process (b) the related school tutor/demonstrator allocation and payment processes. The aim was to try and achieve consistency across the faculty and eliminate any non value-added activity, where appropriate.
As such, we have agreed a streamlined procedure for 07/08. I am attaching two documents for your information. The '07-08 SOP' document includes (a) an explanation of and links to the relevant forms (just one for supervisors to complete!) (b) bullet points outlining the changes made to the process for 07/08 across the faculty (c) a list of actions and deadlines for supervisors for the 07/08 payment process.
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Please note the following:
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