Fwd: [Dbworld] Funding opportunities for short and exchange visits (1st call 2011)

[lorena]

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From: Andrea Maurino <mau...@disco.unimib.it>
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:19 AM
Subject: [Dbworld] Funding opportunities for short and exchange visits (1st call 2011)
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Funding opportunities for short and exchange visits (1st call 2011)
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ESF-APE-INV offers grants for either short stays or exchange visits at European universities and public research organizations, for researchers working on data quality techniques (including but not limited to data standardization, entity resolution) that will be applied to the academic patenting domain.
Applications for Summer and Fall 2011 can be now submitted, preferably before February 28, 2011, as the selection will take place by March 4, 2011.

It is expected to offer 5 grants for short stays (max 15 days), of around €1300 each; and 2 grants for longer visits (max 4 months), of around €4000 each. Both types of grants will cover exclusively travel & accommodation expenses.

Participation is open to all those who wish to contribute to develop and evaluate innovative data quality methods and tools for improving the quality of the database on Academic Patenting in Europe. And can be spent at any institution which has supported the ESF-APE-INV project so far, or wishes to do in the future (for a list of such institutions, check the list of participants to the ESF-APE-INV project: www.academicpatenting.eu).
At this stage of the ESF-APE-INV project, special consideration will be given to proposals involving substantial work on:
- Create/apply/test innovative data quality solutions to improve the European Patent database
- PATSTAT data the inventor level, with special reference to name disambiguation and data quality;
- Retrieval/cleaning of scientists’ data, from universities and/or large public research organizations (e.g. by exploiting new crawler/wrapper approach), and/or harmonization of related info on academic ranks and disciplines;
- Entity resolution tools and methods for linking existing datasets on academic patents;
- Exploratory analysis of existing datasets on academic patents or inventor-based patent data (e.g. citation analysis, network analysis…).

Information on the ESF-APE-INV project can be gathered by visiting the official website (www.academicpatenting.eu). Applications must be submitted to the project’s coordinator, Michele
Pezzoni (michele...@unibocconi.it) and the technical manager Andrea Maurino(andrea....@unimib.it), together with the appropriate documentation, as follows:

- Short description of the proposed project work (?1000/?250 words for exhcange/short visits )
- Curriculum vitae of two A4 pages, including list of up to 5 recent publications
- Letter(s) of recommendation
- Full address details and letter of acceptance from the host at the receiving institution
- Proposed starting date
- Estimated travel costs

Successful candidates will be asked to provide the same information online to ESF shortly after receiving a reply from the project coordinator (with instructions for the online procedure). Applications deemed valuable, but rejected for lack of funds will be given priority in future calls. All applicants will be invited to further ESF-APE-INV activities (the running period of the project is four years, and will close in September 2013)
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Lorena Etcheverry