Selection of Subcontractors

 

These are the applicants accepted by the SCI-BUS Subcontractor Selection Committe:

• G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, Kiev (Ukraine)
• Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB), Belgrade (Serbia)
• Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Leiden (Netherlands)
• NVG Scientific Sdn Bhd, Selangor D.E (Malaysia)
• Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb (Croatia)
• The Meteorology Group of Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (Spain)

Thank you to all applicants that submitted forms to this open call. We received 22 applicant forms from different countries:

 

• 1 from Armenia
• 1 from Belarous
• 1 from Bulgaria
• 1 from Croatia
• 1 from Germany
• 1 from Georgia
• 1 from Hungary
• 1 from Italy
• 1 from Malaysia
• 2 from Netherlands
• 2 from Russia
• 1 from Serbia
• 1 from Slovakia
• 3 from Spain
• 3 from Switzerland
• 1 fron Ukraine

 

Selection criteria

The selection criteria contained the following main points:

• Size of the community (number of users, applications, geographical coverage)

• Potential impact on user community/industry

• Clear evidence that the developed solution will be utilized by a larger community and/or will have significant commercial impact.

• Sustainability and business/commercialization model

• • Clear evidence that the operation of the developed gateway is sustainable beyond the lifetime of the sub-contract.

  • Clear business and/or commercialisation model for the operation and maintenance of the gateway.

• Feasibility of the proposed work

  • Is the proposed work feasible taking the provided funding and offered non-funded contribution into consideration?

  • Has the applicants have the necessary expertise and background to carry out the proposed work?

• Representing

  • new scientific field or

  • new industry or

  • new web 2.0 community

• Unfunded effort and resources brought into the project

• • Subcontractors are expected to bring in at least matching amount of additional funding that is covered from other sources outside the SCI-BUS project.

  • Subcontractors are also expected to have access to DCI resources and have applications already utilized on these DCIs (but not from a convenient science gateway).

• Engagement in the dissemination activities of SCI-BUS

• • Number of SCI-BUS events they are ready to organize or participate

  • Number of SCI-BUS training events they are ready to organize or participate

  • Number of publications they plan to write on their SCI-BUS related work