Contact of PEG : Prof. João Falcão e Cunha FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

Tel. : +351 22-508 2133 ▪ Fax : +351 508 1538 ▪ ljfcunha@ife.up.pt

PEG Founding Members:

► FEUP – Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Portowww.fe.up.pt

► IST – Instituto Superior Técnicowww.ist.utl.pt

► INESC – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadoreswww.inesc.pt

• Research Topics:

Informatics, Computing, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Service Engineering, and Management.

• Estimated Annual Budget:

25 million € (estimated for the relevant areas).

• Staff:

350 researchers, lecturers or professors (estimated in relevant areas).

• Current Locations in Portugal:

Porto, Coimbra and Lisbon.

“To win we need three things we can define:

to know how to work,to follow opportunities and

to create relationships.We also need something

else, that we find difficult to define and, lacking a better

name, we call luck.”

Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese writer and poet)

INSTITUTOSUPERIORTÉCNICO

INESC

INESC Porto

INESC Coimbra

INESC MNINESC INOVINESC ID

www.ERCIM.eu

PEG - ERCIM

• PEG:– INESC: Pedro Guedes de Oliveira– FEUP: João Falcão e Cunha– IST: Arlindo Oliveira

• ERCIM AISBL (Association Internationale à But Non Lucratif):– João Falcão e Cunha (primary member representative)

– José Borbinha (named substitute member representative)

– Joaquim Jorge (editorial board & public relations representative)

www.ERCIM.eu• Working Groups

– The purpose of an ERCIM Working Group is to build and maintain a network of ERCIM researchers in a particular scientific field. The working groups are open to any researcher in the specific scientific field. Their main activities are the organization of workshops and the preparation of common project proposals. The working groups are also the focus of internal mobility within ERCIM.

• Fellowship Programme– The Fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships

are generally of 24 months duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. A fellowship of 12 months duration spent in one institute might be offered. EU Marie-Curie COFUND

• ERCIM News– Reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution

made by ERCIM to the EU in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community.

www.ERCIM.eu• Cor Baayen Award

– The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President.

• Projects– ERCIM is participating in several projects as co-ordinator or associated partner.

In these projects several member institutes carry out the research while ERCIM takes care of administrative tasks

• ABCDE - ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme

• AXES - Axess to Audiovidual Archives

• Euro-India Spirit - Supporting and facilitating international ICT cooperation and joint research activities, connecting European and Indian ICT stakeholders and boosting the impact of EU-India ICT Policy Dialogue.

• D4Science II - Data infrastructure ecosystem for science

• fet11 -The Future and Emerging Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011

• MobiWebApp - Mobile Web Applications for Future Internet Service

• Multilingual Web - Advancing the Multilingual Web

• OMWeb - Open Media Web

• Race Network RFID - Raising Awareness and Competitiveness on RFID in Europe

www.ERCIM.eu

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