ICT Call 3 will be launched on 4th December

Three of these objectives re-open areas which were already included in ICT Call 1. These are:

• Cognitive systems. interaction, robotics

• Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning

• Intelligent contents and semantics

Proposers who were unsuccessful in these areas in the first call are of course very likely to be now considering a re-submission. Evidently, those most likely to be successful are those who scored highly last time, reaching the reserve list but not quite the funding list. Given that the funded proposals are now taken out of the competition, they should stand a better chance this time. But proposers who scored poorly cannot just cross their fingers and hope for better luck; the evaluation is not a lottery or a matter of luck, it is based on a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of a proposal by skilled and experienced experts.

Proposers should look for faults which lost them points last time which can now be fixed. Defects in the project management plan, inadequate plans for dissemination, re-balancing of the effort between workpackages etc. are all things which can be corrected in a re-submission. But if the failing was in the scientific and technical quality of the basic project idea, then there is little chance of success. Such a proposal, which scored low last time and which is simple resubmitted, perhaps with some cosmetic alterations, is sure to score low this time too.