The Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) is announcing a project
call to promote and facilitate cross-fertilization between
disparate disciplines by facilitating the transfer of proven
technologies from one domain to solve "Big Data" challenges in
other scientific domains.
In this context, Big Data is defined as the scientific challenge
of dealing with the increasing scale of data generation (volume),
but also the equally complex challenges of dealing with the
increasing speed of data generation (velocity) and the need to
manage massively heterogeneous datasets (variety).
NLeSC is a joint initiative of SURF and NWO and has been
operational since July 2011. NLeSC has an annual budget of €6M and
collaborates with scientific research groups from both academia and
industry to conduct funded projects in the natural sciences,
humanities and social sciences, balancing short-term eScience
results and the development of a longer-term eScience strategy.
The most important component of the NLeSC strategy revolves
around the funding of collaborative research following a peer
reviewed call procedure with the objective to change scientific
practice by enabling large-scale "Big Data" analysis across
multiple disciplines by:
- optimizing scientific discovery in the era of "big-data";
- stimulating new ways to do science only possible using advanced
computing;
- challenging traditional research by creative & innovative
use of eScience & other computer-based methods;
- pioneering new techniques needed to explore & connect
relevant (massive) datasets.
Successful project applications can be funded to a maximum of
€500K and is open to researchers from any Dutch university or
research institute which is affiliated with NWO or KNAW.
Details of the open project call can be found at: http://www.esciencecenter.com/projects/project-calls/
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