1. Contact of PEG : Prof. João Falcão e Cunha FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Tel. : +351 22-508 2133 ▪ Fax : +351 508 1538 ▪ ljfcunha@ife.up.pt PEG Founding Members: ► FEUP – Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto www.fe.up.pt ► IST – Instituto Superior Técnico www.ist.utl.pt ► INESC – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores www.inesc.pt Research Topics: Informatics, Computing, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Service Engineering, and Management. Estimated Annual Budget: 25 million € (estimated for the relevant areas). Staff: 350 researchers, lecturers or professors (estimated in relevant areas). Current Locations in Portugal: Porto, Coimbra and Lisbon. “To win we need three things we can define: to know how to work, to follow opportunities and to create relationships. We also need something else, that we find difficult to define and, lacking a better name, we call luck.” Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese writer and poet) INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO INESC INESC Porto INESC Coimbra INESC MN INESC INOV INESC ID

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3. PEG - ERCIM PEG: –INESC:Pedro Guedes de Oliveira –FEUP:João Falcão e Cunha –IST:Arlindo Oliveira ERCIM AISBL (Association Internationale à But Non Lucratif) : –João Falcão e Cunha (primary member representative) –José Borbinha (named substitute member representative) –Joaquim Jorge (editorial board & public relations representative)

4. www.ERCIM.eu Working Groups –The purpose of an ERCIM Working Group is to build and maintain a network of ERCIM researchers in a particular scientific field. The working groups are open to any researcher in the specific scientific field. Their main activities are the organization of workshops and the preparation of common project proposals. The working groups are also the focus of internal mobility within ERCIM. Fellowship Programme –The Fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 24 months duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. A fellowship of 12 months duration spent in one institute might be offered. EU Marie- Curie COFUND ERCIM News –Reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the EU in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community.

5. www.ERCIM.eu Cor Baayen Award –The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President. Projects –ERCIM is participating in several projects as co-ordinator or associated partner. In these projects several member institutes carry out the research while ERCIM takes care of administrative tasks ABCDE - ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme AXES - Axess to Audiovidual Archives Euro-India Spirit - Supporting and facilitating international ICT cooperation and joint research activities, connecting European and Indian ICT stakeholders and boosting the impact of EU-India ICT Policy Dialogue. D4Science II - Data infrastructure ecosystem for science fet11 -The Future and Emerging Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 MobiWebApp - Mobile Web Applications for Future Internet Service Multilingual Web - Advancing the Multilingual Web OMWeb - Open Media Web Race Network RFID - Raising Awareness and Competitiveness on RFID in Europe

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