The 3DLife consortium partners committed on building upon the project’s collaborative activities and establishing a sustainable European Competence Centre, namely Excellence in Media Computing and Communication (EMC2).
Within the scope of EMC2, 3DLife will promote additional collaborative activities such as an Open Call for Fellowships, a yearly Grand Challenge, and a series of Distinguished Lectures. You can follow the links in the right hand navigation to learn more about collaboration within EMC2.
The long term sustainability of EMC2 will be pursued through a combination of funding streams including industry collaboration, national and European research funding initiatives and the creation of future STREPs and IPs as the research results of 3DLife mature.
Regarding scientific impact, EMC2 will endeavor to secure a dominant role in other well established scientific bodies as IEEE Technical Committees, IET professional networks and EURASIP special interest groups. Several dissemination forums, standardization bodies, international conferences and exhibitions will be targeted and used to cement the ties between EMC2 and the broad research community. The aim is not only to strengthen its scientific impact but also to steer and organise top-ranked conferences and symposia in media computing and communication. Next to the impact outwards, EMC2 will also have a substantial impact inwards, by fostering links to national research clusters. The integration efforts started during the NoE funding period will continue and lead to more integration and re-balancing of strategic research agendas across national networks, and thus to even more momentum for moving towards new research challenges.
EMC2 will also contribute to dissemination by issuing training material and tutorials on key topics. That material will be combined into coherent courses targeting chosen topics to be offered at different locations in Europe. The NoE along with EMC2 intend to use this material to prepare a joint distance learning course that will be linked into Masters courses at many of the contributing universities when the project is finished. A thematic book to support distance learning will be published at the end of the funding period too. To succeed, EMC2 will be built on solid grounds, with well identified benefits for its members, bearing a simple but efficient management and coordination structure, and with a high degree of visibility in the scientific and technical communities for both academia and industry.
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