{"id":854,"date":"2016-01-28T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T09:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/?p=854"},"modified":"2016-01-28T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T12:55:53","slug":"big-data-new-call-for-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/big-data-new-call-for-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data &#8211; New call for proposal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research\u00a0is pleased\u00a0to announce a new call for proposal &#8211; Big Data and Computional Science! The program is designed as a framwork grant of SEK 200 million.\u00a0Selected projects will be supported by grants of SEK\u00a04-7 million per year for a period of 5\u00a0years.<\/p>\n<p>The techniques of Big Data give grand opportunities in areas as different as materials design, system biology, and scientific visualization.\u00a0The combination of statistical, mathematical, and computational methods has already led a revolution in telecommunication. It has resulted in dramatically improved simulations, e.g., for industrial development and manufacturing and, increasingly, in healthcare. It is also driving particular technological developments, like image-based search and automatic language translation, more virtual content in movies, etc.<br \/>\nIn industrial settings intractably large data sets emerge in many ways, including the maintenance of large technical systems, simulations of next-generation industrial product construction and manufacturing and as collections of user data from market-leading apps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Research areas included in this call that are considered strategic for Sweden, alone or in combination, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visualisation, simulation and modelling<\/li>\n<li>Tools and algorithms for high-performance computing and computational science<\/li>\n<li>Data Mining<\/li>\n<li>Database Systems<\/li>\n<li>Applications to Large Information Systems<\/li>\n<li>Bioinformatics and Computational Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last date for applications is 10 May 2016, 14:00 CET at the latest.\u00a0Project start is 1 January 2017<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please\u00a0contact: Scientific Secretary Olof\u00a0Lindgren, Scientific Secretary, tel.: +46-8-505 81\u00a0669, e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:olof.lindgren@strategiska.se\">olof.lindgren@strategiska.se<\/a>\u00a0or<\/p>\n<p>Research Programmes Manager\u00a0Joakim Amorim, \u00a0tel.: +46-8-505 81\u00a0665, e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:joakim.amorim@strategiska.se\">joakim.amorim@strategiska.se<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/big-data-and-computational-science-2016.pdf\">Read the announcement here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research\u00a0is pleased\u00a0to announce a new call for proposal &#8211; Big Data \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}