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Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from twenty European countries are members of ERCIM.</h1> </div> <div class="links"> <table class="links" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="90"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a title="Austrian Association for Research in IT" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/aarit">AARIT</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/cnr">CNR</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Czech Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/crcim">CRCIM</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/cwi">CWI</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Danish Research Association for Informatics and Mathematics" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/danaim">DANAIM</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Fraunhofer Gesellschaft" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/fhg">FhG</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Fonds National de la Recherche" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/fnr">FNR</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/fnrs">FNRS</a>/<a title="Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/fwo">FWO</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/forth">FORTH</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/inria">INRIA</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Irish Universities Association" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/iua">IUA</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Norwegian University of Science and Technology" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/ntnu">NTNU</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Portuguese ERCIM Grouping" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/peg">PEG</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Polish Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/plercim">PLERCIM</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Swiss Association for Research in Information Technology" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/sarit">SARIT</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Swedish Institute of Computer Science" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/sics">SICS</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Spanish Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/sparcim">SpaRCIM</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="Science and Technology Facilities Council" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/stfc">STFC</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="The Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/sztaki">SZTAKI</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a title="VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/vtt">VTT</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="partners"> <div class="members"> <h2><a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/about/members">Members</a></h2> </div> </div> <div class="projects"><span class="projects"><a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/activity/projects">Projects</a> </span> <table class="projects" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="prcol1"><a title="Advancing Clinico Genomic Trials on Cancer" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.eu-acgt.org/">ACGT </a><br/> <a title="Distributed Collaboratories Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology for Science" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.d4science.eu/">D4Science</a><br/> <a title="Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://digitalworld.ercim.eu/">Digital World Forum</a><br/> <a title="Euro-India ICT Cooperation" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.euroindia-ict.org/">EuroIndia</a><br/> <a title="International Cooperation Activities in Future And Emerging ICTs" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://interlink.ics.forth.gr/">Interlink</a><br/> <a title="Mobile Web 2.0" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.w3.org/2008/MobiWeb20/"> MobiWeb 2.0</a><br/></td> <td><a title="Towards integrating Virtual Reality and Optimisation Techniques in a new Generation of Networked Businesses in Warehouse Management Systems under Constraints" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://net-wms.ercim.eu/">Net-WMS </a><br/> <a title="Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.primelife.eu/">PrimeLife</a><br/> <a title="Raising Awareness and Competitiveness on RFID in Europe" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.race-networkrfid.eu/">RACE networkRFID</a><br/> <a title="Video and Image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://vitalas.ercim.eu/">VITALAS</a><br/> <a title="Virtual Physiological Human" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.vph-noe.eu/">VPH</a> <br/> <a title="Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/">WAI-AGE</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="ercimhosts"><span class="host">ERCIM is the <br/>European host of </span> <a title="World Wide Web Consortium" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', ''); return false;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://www.w3.org/"><img style="float: right;" src="/web/20100619180806im_/http://www.ercim.eu/images/stories/w3c_home.png" alt="The World Wide Web Consortium" width="72" height="48"/></a></div> </div> <div class="blog"> <p class="counter"> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="rightcol"> <div class="moduletablenews"> <h3>Latest News</h3> <ul class="latestnews"> <li class="latestnews"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/news/282-euro-india-spirit-first-newsletter" class="latestnews"> Euro-India SPIRIT First Newsletter </a> </li> <li class="latestnews"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/news/281-ercim-2009-activity-report-published" class="latestnews"> ERCIM 2009 Activity Report published </a> </li> <li class="latestnews"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/news/279-fp" class="latestnews"> ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme </a> </li> <li class="latestnews"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/news/278-a-tribute-to-georges-nissen" class="latestnews"> A Tribute to Georges Nissen </a> </li> <li class="latestnews"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/news/277-call-for-nominations-for-the-2010-ercim-cor-baayen-award" class="latestnews"> Call for nominations for the 2010 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award </a> </li> <li class="latestnews"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/news/276-ercim-news-bulletin-march-2010" class="latestnews"> ERCIM news bulletin March 2010 </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="moduletablenews"> <h3>Highlights</h3> <ul>   <li><a title="link to the flyer in pdf" href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/images/stories/pub/ercim_project_management.pdf"><img src="/web/20100619180806im_/http://www.ercim.eu/icons1/pdf.gif" border="0" alt="pdf"/></a> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/images/stories/pub/ercim_project_management.pdf">Our Expertise by Your Side throughout FP7</a><br/> ERCIM offers assistance in preparing FP7 research proposals and managing ICT projects. See also <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/activity/projects">ERCIM's participation in research projects</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/activity/jobs">Jobs</a> at ERCIM institutes. </li> <li><a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/activity/expertise">Scientific fields of competences</a><br/> Areas in which ERCIM institutes are active with direct links to the research teams </li> <li> <div style="height: 96px;"><a title="ERCIM News" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/"> <img style="padding: 3px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806im_/http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN81/cover.jpg" alt="ERCIM News" width="60" height="85" align="left"/></a> <a title="ERCIM News" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/">ERCIM News</a> <br/>Current issue: No. 81<br/> <em>Special:</em> <br/>Modelling and Simulation for Research and Industry<br/></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="moduletable"> <p style="text-align:center"> <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/index.php?format=feed&type=rss"> <img src="/web/20100619180806im_/http://www.ercim.eu/images/M_images/rss20.gif" alt="RSS Feed" title="RSS 2.0"/> </a></p> </div> <div class="moduletablesynd"> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="/web/20100619180806im_/http://www.ercim.eu/images/stories/valid-xhtml10.png" alt="valid xhtml 1.0" width="88" height="31"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100619180806/http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"> <img src="/web/20100619180806im_/http://www.ercim.eu/images/stories/vcss.gif" alt="CSS compliance" width="88" height="31"/> </a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clr"></div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer_content"> <div class="moduletable"> <div><span class="footer_text"> 漏 2009 | <a href="/web/20100619180806/http://www.ercim.eu/about/legal">legal information</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>