ACO*HUM fourth year dissemination extension, 1999-2000
Coordinator: Universitetet i Bergen,
Norge (Norway)
Financial agreement nr. D26030-CP-1-99-1-NO-ERASMUS-ETN
This page contains internal information for the network project
partners.
The special extension of the ACO*HUM project in 1999-2000 was approved
with a grant of EUR 43000 for the EU and EEA countries and EUR 800 for
the associated countries (CZ). The contractual period was November 1, 1999
and the end date was October 31, 2000.
The report was delivered to the European
Commission in the fall of 2000.
This extension has not been a simple continuation of activities planned
at the outset of the ACO*HUM project and carried out during the regular
3-year project period (1996-1999). The fourth year has been a special
extension with activities aimed at dissemination and exploitation
of results obtained earlier. This has had consequences for the partnership
and the mode of operation. The following are main tasks and sites:
Tasks for TS&HC working group
Tasks for CL&LE and NEL working groups
Partnership
Following our project application, the active
partnership is strongly reduced this year in comparison with the years
before. The new active partnership consists
primarily of the institutions and associations actively involved in working
groups which obtained clear results earlier and have formulated clear aims
for the extension proposal, i.e.:
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Computational Linguistics & Language Engineering
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Textual Scholarship & Humanities Computing, and
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Computing for Non-European Languages.
We wish to have a partnership which actively participates in meetings
and implementation of results.
Therefore, if you wish to be a partner, please check your partner
status in the new partner list. Check
the information for your institution and you as their contact person.
If you are not a partner and would like to become one, or if any adjustment
is needed, please get in touch.
Budget
The grant from the EC is in accordance with the budget and will allow us
to reimburse travel expenses for all partners' participation at meetings.
It will, however, not pay for teaching staff time, which must be contributed
by the partner institutions themselves.
In order for you to be eligible and receive payments for expenses,
we must have an official statement of commitment from your institution
which indicates how much staff time they will contribute and what the equivalent
cost is.
Therefore, if you wish to be a partner, check your personnel cost
on the continuously updated budget for personnel
costs. If according to this page you have not yet sent us a written
commitment with accurate financial details of your staff time and costs
in the project, or if any adjustment is needed, please send us a letter
(see model below).
Contact
Send all correspondence to acohum@uib.no.
Letter of commitment (model)
If your university has not already sent a letter like the one below (check
here), please arrange for a letter to be sent at your earliest convencience.
The letter can be signed by your head of department.
To ACO*HUM
University of Bergen, HIT-centre
Allégaten 27
5007 Bergen, Norway
Hereby we confirm that [full official university name] intends to participate
in the ACO*HUM project during the project year 1999-2000. As a partner,
we will contribute staff efforts. We will also be able to receive
refunds for certain eligible expenses such as travel to meetings planned
by the project coordinator at the University of Bergen.
The work planned at our institution will be executed by [one or more
persons and email]. The main contact person for our institution will
be [one name and email].
These persons will on behalf of our institution contribute [minimum
10] working days to the project. The labour cost per working day
will be EUR [amount in Euro], consisting only of salary and social expenses
for the academic staff mentioned above; this can be verified in our institution's
accounts in case of an audit.
Sincerely yours,
[place, date, name, function]
[signature and stamp] |
Important note: How to compute the labour cost per day?
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Ask your university what it costs them to employ you for a year, in
Euro. This number is not the salary that you get, but
it is what they must pay to provide you with that salary; this sum
may for instance also include substantial social security charges which
your employer directly pays for you to social security funds. The
rates used must be traceable in the accounts of your institution in case
of an audit and may not include any overheads unrelated to your salary.
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Find out how many days per year you actually work. If you work full-time,
the number should be around 200.
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Divided the yearly cost (step 1) by the number of working days (step 2).
