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CIP ICT-PSP - eContentplus
The eContentplus programme expired on 31 December 2008. This website provides information about funding opportunities in the areas of Digital Libraries and Public Sector Information/Geographic Information in the framework of the Information and Communications Technologies Policy Support Programme ("ICT PSP"). Information about funding opportunities in the area of multilingual web is available on Cordis.
Call for proposals 2010
The 4th ICT PSP call for proposals was launched on 21 January 2010 and will close on 1 June 2010 at 17:00 hrs (Brussels local time). EUR 30 million are available to fund projects responding to six different objectives under the theme of Digital Libraries.
Three objectives relate to Europeana:
2.1: Coordinating Europeana
2.2: Enhancing/Aggregating content in Europeana
2.3: Digitising content for Europeana
Three more objectives relate to further actions in the wider area of digital libraries:
2.4: Access to European Rights Information / Registry of Orphan Works
2.5: Open access to scientific information
2.6: Statistics on cultural heritage digitisation activities
You will find details on the focus & outcomes, the conditions & characteristics and the expected impact of these objectives in the ICT PSP 2010 Work Programme.
A Digital Libraries Information Day will take place in Luxembourg on 4 February 2010. Click here to see the agenda. Registration for the event and for bilateral meetings is now closed.
Details on how to prepare and submit a proposal are given in the Guides for Applicants (one per funding instrument). For theme 2, there are specific documents indicating the appropriate part B sections in which to address the requirements of the objective descriptions and the award criteria and a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Part B is a template, or list of headings (appended to the Guides for Applicants) which you should follow when presenting the content of your proposal. The full call documentation is available here.
This year the work programme does not cover activities in the area of Public Sector Information nor Geographic Information. This may change in coming years. If you wish to continue to be informed about activities in these areas, please register on the ICT-PSP Digital Content mailing list.
This page was last updated: 29 January 2010