From eceb0210bd6f8fc85d7aee9855039db19b1e07c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dom Horsman <dom.horsman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:41:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] written financial plan
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diff --git a/NEWPROPOSAL/FULLPROP.tex b/NEWPROPOSAL/FULLPROP.tex
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--- a/NEWPROPOSAL/FULLPROP.tex
+++ b/NEWPROPOSAL/FULLPROP.tex
@@ -2292,8 +2292,8 @@ providing him with the resources to contribute to this project. \bR ... Will Zen
-\newpage\TODOb{This needs to be done urgently}
-\bR \subsection{Financial plan (1 page)}
+\newpage%\TODOb{This needs to be done urgently}
+ \subsection{Financial plan (1 page)}
\label{sec:financial-plan}
\REM{The resources to be committed for each project partner have to be
@@ -2307,32 +2307,33 @@ providing him with the resources to contribute to this project. \bR ... Will Zen
\label{sec:personnel}
This is a large and multifaceted project, which will require
-significant work to deliver. A full-time post doc at each academic
+significant work to deliver. A full-time post doc at each contributing academic
site is needed, under supervision of the site lead. In addition, At
all the academic sites there is a large amount of time donated to the
-project by senior scientists with relevant expertise. At Bull, our
-industrial partner, several engineers will contribute to the project.
+project by senior scientists with relevant expertise. At CQC, our
+industrial partner, a Senior Scientist and a Research Software Developer will contribute to the project.
\begin{itemize}
\item \emph{Post-doctoral researchers}: We request 36 months of salary
- for post-docs at Strathclyde, Oxford, LORIA, and Nijmegen. They
+ for post-docs at Oxford, 36+18 months at Gdansk, and 18 months at each of Grenoble and LORIA. The Oxford post-doc will also engage in co-operation with industrial partners at CQC. The post-docs
will be hired as soon as possible by the site leads at each site.
-\item \emph{Coordinator}: We request 10\% contribution the
- Duncan's salary at Strathclyde to cover the time spent managing
- the project. This is reduced from 20\% upon negotiation with
- Stratclyde. (Duncan will contribute an additional 8.4 months of
- time as a researcher, see below.)
+%\item \emph{Coordinator}: We request 10\% contribution the
+% Duncan's salary at Strathclyde to cover the time spent managing
+% the project. This is reduced from 20\% upon negotiation with
+% Stratclyde. (Duncan will contribute an additional 8.4 months of
+% time as a researcher, see below.)
\item \emph{Principle investigators and other named staff}: Spread
- across the four academic sites, more than 110 person-months of time
+ across the sites, more than 110 person-months of time
will be contributed by the named staff on the project, all of which
is supported by other sources. This means that almost 40\% of the
research effort of the project is funded from elsewhere.
\item \emph{PhD Students}: at LORIA, Titouan Carette will contribute
approx 9 months to the project; this is funded from other sources.
-\item \emph{Engineers}: At Bull, we request 29 person-months for
- research engineers, familiar with Bull's HPC systems, and
- experienced in making commercial software products. They will be
- essential in achieving our planned impacts.
+ At Grenoble, Richard East will contribute
+ approx 9 months to the project; this is funded from other sources.
+ At Gdansk, a PhD student will contribute
+ approx 12 months to the project; this is funded from other sources.
+\item \emph{Engineers}: At CQC, a Senior Scientist and a Research Software Developer will contribute, funded from other sources.
\end{itemize}
\paragraph{Workshops}
@@ -2340,12 +2341,10 @@ industrial partner, several engineers will contribute to the project.
Project workshops serve a key role in intra-project communication,
dissemination, and outreach. We plan one workshop each year, in
-Oxford, Nijmegen, and Grenoble respectively. Our entire advisory board
-will be invited to these workshops, which increases the cost beyond
+Oxford, Nijmegen, and Grenoble. We plan to invite significant figures from the experimental and software industrial communities to supplement the project reach and expertise, which increases the cost beyond
the usual expenses of venue hire and speakers' expenses. We have
-budgeted \euro 6.5k for the first one\footnote{Included in the
- Oxford site's consuambles budget.} (which is planned to be smaller) and
-\euro 12k for the second and third.
+budgeted
+\euro 20k for each, through the co-ordinating site budget.
\paragraph{Travel and subsistence}
\label{sec:travel-subsistence}
@@ -2359,15 +2358,11 @@ WP meetings, and also to present our work at conferences.
\label{sec:equipment}
\begin{itemize}
-\item We request 25\% of the cost of new server blades to upgrade our
- dedicated HPC facility. This facility will be available to the
- entire project via VPN, and will be used across several tasks, most
- crucially for \ref{task:HPC-sim-model}.
-\item We also request laptop computers for each of the postdocs, and
- replacement laptops for some staff at LORIA. These are necessary
+\item We request laptop computers for each of the postdocs, and
+ replacement laptops for some staff. These are necessary
because of the frequent need to travel and work at another site
and/or present work at conferences or workshops.
-\end{itemize}\e
+\end{itemize}
\subsection{Ethical issues \REM{1/2 page}}
\label{sec:ethical-issues}
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