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Call with @brenoust, @melancon, @Stefano_Maffei, Beatrice, Erik, @markomanka, Noemi.
Also cc-ing those not in attendance: @bpinaud, @Alberto, @Nadia.
Round of introductions:
Noemi Salantiu: acting as convener for Edgeryders, was at the CAPS Infoday last year and not so impressed with the funded projects - a lot of platforms (for crowdfunding, deliberation, rating for and by citizens) but not real communities to use them.
Benjamin Renoust - post doctoral student in Tokyo, National Institute of Informatics; has been working with Edgeryders before on a mixed research approach with network analysis and ethnography; good at harvesting the knowledge in the communities through network science. Ben can’t be part of the consortium with institutional hat because as a post doc he’s legally bound to work on 1 specific project for the next 2 years. Would enjoy being involved in other capacity.
Guy Melancon - is Ben’s former PhD coordinator; He thinks LABRI in Bordeaux could be acting as a lead partner in the consortium.
Marco Manca - CERN (Dept of Development and Innovation, and Medical Application Office); is also president of the Foundation SCImPULSE working to improve human condition. Would be entering the consortium with the latter.
Stefano Maffei and Beatrice Villari - working in the Design Dept. at University of Milan and already involved in 2 other EU projects - warning that it’s very time consuming! would be focusing on the service design part of the project, but also have experience in policy e.g. on the system connection between public sector policy and citizen approaches to health problems
Erik Lakomaa - works in Dpt of Business Administration and Economic History at Stockholm School of Economics; although we initially intended SSE to be a lead partner, their dpt. advises not to get involved in such a project without someone with more capacity to lead.
We therefore need to look elsewhere for a lead in the consortium: Marco’s proposal is KITE of the Business School of University of Newcastle upon Tyne, with due experience (to drop them an email to ask with Concept note). If not, another option is to re-visit discussions we had at Edgeryders with Wuppertal Institute in Germany, or other tips we have (Lulea University of Technology in Finland… etc.)
Questions and how to move forward:
What kind of institutional participation can we involve in the consortium, especially to do the real management of the work process? Two months is quite a short time to develop the proposal. Edgeryders can only do soft coordination in the beginning until we find a lead. Erik thinks we need to get someone with EU funding experience onboard real soon, and Stefano agrees. One option is to find a European consultant for this (could anyone develop on terms here? what would it mean, how much would it cost?)
Actionables:
Edgeryders to put together drafts and circulate the following docs:
- Overview of partners capacities in the project (would be then refined by each partner)
- Process of writing up the proposal : an imaginative exercise, from more abstract levels to more specific. What would be required from each partner
We agreed as coordination channels : this working group and google drive for quick, live editing.
Next meeting: Noemi to circulate a doodle with preferred dates around 16, 17, 18 Feb.