Funding

Level of activity

• Same as now? 4-500.000 EUR/Yr– Secretariat– Editor

Continue as NoE?

• Request to EU – find new instruments to continue NoEs

Research funding

• Other research areas than disability?

• Multimodal interaction

• Ambiant

• Interact more with Japanese researchers

• Enhance COGAIN to become an Euro-Asian association

Private funding

• Download program – NAG screen: “Please become a member of COGAIN”

• On Webpage give private / corporate donations “donate” button– List of largest / most recent donations? Risk

of competing with ACE-centre?– Exclusive letters / presentations to some rich

foundations

Private funding

• Amazon model for funding via download of programs

• List charity organisations in different countries and put on the web?

• The step towards standardisation – one of the things we have been most sucessful with. Not compete with charities

• To create standards is expensive – apply for funding to cover

• Influence from researchers is getting smaller and smaller – influence from users is getting bigger and bigger.

• Find some way to agree with industries

• We need a PayPal interface

• Howell

• Paivi

• (John kommentere min ppt)

• Fiona

• Michael Tall

• Fulvio