Call Indo-Dutch Joint Research Programme for ICT open for submission

The NWO Physical Sciences (EW) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), India's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, invite researchers in India and the Netherlands together with industrial partners to participate in the Indo-Dutch Joint Research Programme for ICT. Deadline for submitting Letters of Intent is September 23, 2014. The total budget available for this call is € 2 million.

Industrial partners, e.g. ICT users and/or developers, are invited to collaborate with researchers in addressing the challenging key issues and formulating the research questions. The aim of this collaboration is working towards practical and innovative solutions. At the same time, the research questions can be driven by fundamental and/or applied scientific approach. NWO and DeitY identified the following research topics where major technology trends will start to scale and shape business models, innovation and affect everyday life: Big Data, Internet of Things and Serious Gaming.

The maximum total funding requested from NWO/DeitY is € 500,000, of which 50% to be covered by NWO and 50% by DeitY. The minimum amount of total co-funding (cash and in-kind) should be 20% of the total funding requested from NWO/DeitY, with a minimum cash contribution of 10% of the total funding requested.