[Talk-GB] Grant funding opportunity: TSB/BBSRC: Harnessing Large and Diverse Sources of Data (fwd)

[Martin - CycleStreets]

This research funding opportunity notification below strikes me as 
potentially very applicable to OpenStreetMap, if anyone has ideas for 
something that would fit the requirements.


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Subject: TSB/BBSRC: Harnessing Large and Diverse Sources of Data

 
HARNESSING LARGE AND DIVERSE SOURCES OF DATA
 
Compulsory Expressions of Interest: 21 October 2010
 
Invited full applications DEADLINE: 16 December 2010

The Technology Strategy Board will invest up to £7m to fund collaborative 
research and development projects that will lead to new technologies and 
strategies to help businesses extract greater value from large and diverse 
sources of data (or information), and which drive a robust data economy.   

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to all UK-based companies and 
research organisations in business-led consortia.  

SCOPE: Ideas are sought from all economic sectors.  This competition is 
aimed at stimulating innovation to help businesses extract greater value 
from large and/or diverse sources of data. The resulting projects will be 
necessarily collaborative as they will involve data creators, owners or 
custodians, and technology providers from multiple disciplines, as well as 
end users. Ideas are invited from all economic sectors including (but not 
limited to) applications such as bioinformatics, mobile services for 
transport users, and crisis or risk management.

THEMES:  Projects are invited from one or both of the following two broad 
areas:

  * Harnessing diverse data sources: For example (but not limited to) ways 
to model and assess the value of data to a business and for supporting the 
case for discarding or maintaining data for future use; novel approaches to 
integrating internal and external data sources; and new business models for 
sharing data across organisations.

  * Making sense of ‘big data’: For example (but not limited to) ways to 
maximise knowledge extraction from ‘big data’, new or enhanced algorithms 
that can significantly speed up data analysis with little or no loss of 
accuracy; and novel visualisation technologies that put complex and ‘big 
data’ into the right form so that it can easily be understood or explored 
by one or more decision-makers.

FUNDING:  The TSB has allocated up to £7m to fund collaborative research 
and development projects that align with the scope we have described.  
Projects are expected to last no more than 18 months and TSB expect to 
invest £100-500k in each project.  Additional funding may be available for 
the competition from JISC for projects involving one or more academic 
partners that would add value to its Research Data Management and Business 
Community Engagement programmes (see www.jisc.ac.uk for details).  Further 
funding may also be available from BBSRC and Medical Research Council for 
projects involving one or more academic partners, aimed at extracting 
maximum knowledge and value from biological or medical research data.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: The competition will have two stages: applicants 
must submit an Expression of Interest (EOIs) by 21 October 2010. Full 
proposals will be invited for assessment from the highest scoring EOI 
consortia.   

CONTACT: Competition helpline: 0300 321 4357, email competitions @ tsb.gov.uk
 
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FURTHER INFORMATION:
  *  BBSRC web page at 
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative-research/tsb-collaborative.aspx
  *  TSB web site at 
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/harnessing-large-and-diverse-sources-of-data.ashx