I would be rather interested in participating in this next year, and it seems likely I'd have to partner up with some eu org to do so.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Leandro Navarro Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:46 AM Subject: [Battlemesh] Confine Open Call for participation: experiments and extension To: Battle of the Mesh Mailing List Hi, we presented our ongoing work in v6. Now we have a mechanism to bring in new ideas and networks to the project. Funding is available for participation through this competitive open call. You're welcome to apply. Best regards, Leandro. Open Call 2: Connected communities: A future internet, built by the people for the people CONFINE - Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet http://confine-project.eu The CONFINE FP7 Integrated Project is designing, building and operating a distributed testbed to support experimental research in community networking: http://community-lab.net/. Open call for participation: Funding is available for i) experiments relevant to community networks that make use of the existing Community-Lab testbed. ii) expansion of the Community-Lab testbed over other community networks that bring added value to the testbed. The deadline for applications is Saturday October 19, 2013, at 17:00h Brussels time. Details at: http://confine-project.eu/open-call-2/ Topics of interest for this open call are around community networking, on aspects such as but not limited to: * Wireless mesh networks * Wireless MAC and routing protocols * Services and applications for community networks * Cross-layer designs * Hybrid networks with wireless and optical fibre links * Tools for bootstrapping and running community networks * Performance modelling and evaluation * Quality of service provisioning * Quality of experience in community networks * Community network security and privacy * Large-scale management and data collection infrastructures * Incentive models for encouraging users and businesses to participate in community networks * Socio-technical-economic experiments for community networks * Legal aspects of community networks * Increasing public awareness about the potential of community networks * Engaging citizens and local administrations in community network developments Summary of the call: * Budget available: up to EUR 750 K€ Commission funding. The requested funding per proposal should normally be in the order of EUR 50 to 100 K€. * Total number of proposals: up to 8-15 proposals. * Number of partners per proposal: usually 1 but can be up to 2. * Duration of the participation: minimum duration is 12 months from February 2014, and the maximum duration is 20 months, until end of the project in September 30, 2015. * Submissions: Proposals should be submitted in English and the submission is accepted only electronically, in a single PDF file, to the following email address: confine-oc-submission@ac.upc.edu. * Deadline: Saturday October 19, 2013, at 17:00h Brussels time. * Contact: Felix Freitag, UPC, phone: +34 934011609, Email (preferably) for information (not submissions): opencall2@confine-project.eu -- Leandro Navarro http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro http://dsg.ac.upc.edu _______________________________________________ Battlemesh mailing list Battlemesh@ml.ninux.org http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html