Congratulations! The project "PERPLEXUS - Pervasive computing framework for modeling complex virtually unbound systems" managed by SCIPROM won the prize in the Future and Emerging Technologies category at the NASA/ASE AHS conference (Edinburgh 5-8 Aug 2007).

The PERPLEXUS "ubidules", little collaborative robots, and their award even made the news: The Swiss newspaper "24 heures" imagines them in outer space soon ...

Go and get to know them on the project web site.

A Joint Call between ICT and Security Themes on Critical Infrastructure Protection has been published on 3 August 2007.

Identifier: FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1,
Publication date: 03 August 2007,
Budget: € 40 000 000,
Deadline: 29 November 2007 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time).

The cordis information package for this call can be found on Cordis.

An ICT & Security Information Event will be organised on 12 Sep 2007 by Euresearch. For information and registration please refer to the Euresearch site.

You have been invited for negotiation of an FP7 project? Congratulations!

The negotiation guidance notes of the EC have just been published (31 July 2007) and may be downloaded from the Cordis ftp site.

On 23 July 2007, FP7 guidelines for audit certification were published.

These guidance notes have been compiled to guide research beneficiaries and certifying entities in the preparation of certificates on the financial statements and on the methodology for calculating personnel costs/indirect costs under the European Community's 7th RTD Framework Programme (FP7).

The objective of these guidance notes is to give an overview of the requirements and provisions which are of importance in claiming costs for reimbursement and hence in the certification of financial statements and - new in FP7 - on the methodology.

The document may be downloaded on the Cordis ftp site.