The future of cooperation among EU and WBC research teams in the field of Advanced computing and Control Systems BALCON final conference 1 July 2013, Belgrade (SR) Overview of BALCON partners efforts to enhance WBC R&D teams participation in FP7-ICT Mr Iakovos DELIOGLANIS BALCON project coordinator Q-PLAN North Greece
Identity Title Theme Type Boosting EU-Western Balkan Countries research collaboration in the Monitoring and Control area FP7-ICT Support Action Duration 24 months (1 Sep 2011 31 Aug 2013) Coordinator Partners EC Officer Q-PLAN North Greece Ltd (GR) 8 partners: 3 EU + 5 WBC (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYROM, Montenegro) Mr Alkis Konstantellos / Ms Zulema Olivan-Tomas DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Unit A3 "Complex Systems and Advanced Computing (DG Information Society and Media Unit G3 "Embedded Systems and Control )
Aim and orientation BALCON is a communication and support project aiming to: strengthen the cooperation between the research and industrial communities from the EU and the Western Balkan Countries (geographical orientation) that are active/interested in the broader field of Monitoring and Control (scientific orientation)
Success rate Country Submitted proposals Retained proposals Funded proposal Total budget Success rate Serbia 160 50 30 6.5 M 19% Croatia 147 35 20 3 M 14% Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 40 10 8 1.2 M 20% Bosnia and Herzegovina 35 6 4 210 k 11% Montenegro 28 8 5 71 k 18% Albania 14 2 2 65 k 14% FP7-ICT Theme (other Themes of programmes not included) Period: 2007 summer 2012 (not including Call 9) All types of projects
No of FP7-ICT projects Country Projects Country Projects Serbia 37 (2) Croatia 27 (1) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 9 (1) Montenegro 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 Greece 475 Austria 425 Hungary 134 Romania 86 Slovenia 94 Period: 2007 June 2013 (not including 2013 Calls 10, 11)
BALCON approach 1. Analyze the collaboration potential and involve more researchers Collect information on the research expertise in the WBC Identify interested R&D actors in WBC Highlight common areas of interest especially under FP7 2. Promote R&D interests and expertise Through the project web portal Exploiting our networks / similar initiatives Organizing workshops 3. Bringing researchers into direct contact Organizing brokerage events
Highlights (1/6) Name Organisation Country 1 Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Françoise National Centre for Scientific Research France 2 Engell, Sebastian Technical University of Dortmund Germany 3 Malek, Miroslaw Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin Germany 4 Di Benedetto, Marika Domenica University of l' Aquila Italy 5 Krstic, Miroslav University of California, San Diego USA 6 Milutinovic, Veljko University of Belgrade Serbia 7 Ðurović, Željko University of Belgrade Serbia 8 Kovačević, Branko University of Belgrade Serbia 9 Filipovic, Nenad BioIRC Kragujevac Ltd Serbia 10 Milicev, Dragan University of Belgrade Serbia 11 Petrovački, Dušan University of Novi Sad Serbia 12 Stanković, Srdjan University of Belgrade Serbia 13 Vraneš, Sanja Mihajlo Pupin Institute Serbia 14 Ban, Željko University of Zagreb Croatia 15 Vukić, Zoran University of Zagreb Croatia 16 Nosović, Novica University of Sarajevo Bosnia & Herzegovina 17 Prljača, Naser University of Tuzla Bosnia & Herzegovina 18 Salihbegović Adnan University of Sarajevo Bosnia & Herzegovina 19 Gavrilovska, Liljana The St. Cyril and Methodius University FYROM 20 Stankovski, Mile The St. Cyril and Methodius University FYROM
Highlights (2/6) 2 international networking events were organised i. Scientific papers session (19/3/2012, Athens, Greece) WBC R&D teams presented their research work 13 scientific papers were presented ii. Presentation Day (2/10/2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia) EU and WBC R&D teams presented their expertise and interests towards FP7-ICT 2013 Calls face-to-face discussions to support consortia building 25 research teams from both regions presented their ideas Several presentations were given during relevant regional/international events
Highlights (3/6) 2 on-line databases have been created i. scientific expertise of WBC R&D teams (30 teams) ii. interest towards FP7-ICT 2013 (20 teams)
Highlights (4/6) Promotion of success stories on previous collaborations are promoted through the web portal
Highlights (5/6) Supported the submission of 8 proposals Call Proposals R&D teams FP7-ICT Call 10 5 STREPs 5 FP7-ICT Call 11 1 IP 9 FP7-Energy-2013-1 1 STREP 1 ERA-Chair pilot call 1 1
Highlights (6/6) Two training modules under the Graduate School of Control 2013* are supported by BALCON Module M11: Control of Nonlinear Delay Systems and PDEs Trainer Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego, USA Date 11-15 March 2013 No of trainees 18 total (8 supported 6 from WBC) Module M12: Verification and Correct-by-Construction Synthesis of Control Protocols for Networked Systems Trainers i. Richard Murray, California Institute of Technology, USA ii. Ufuk Topcu, California Institute of Technology, USA Date 18-22 march 2013 No of trainees 11 total (7 supported - 6 from WBC) * Organised on annual basis by the European Embedded Control Institute