The Call 2013 of CHIST-ERA, to be published in October 2013, targets research in the following topics:

Adaptive Machines in Complex Environments

Heterogeneous Distributed Computing

The details of the research targeted in the call have been defined by the research community itself during the CHIST-ERA Conference 2013 event, an event that was open to all interested researchers. You can find more information about the conference in the open letter to the attendants of the conference. It also contains the list of researchers, interested in the themes, who attended. The Call 2013 pre-announcement document below (see attached file) gives an overview of the research themes that have emerged during the conference (see pages 2 and 3).

Researchers are encouraged to start discussing possible projects with prospective partners abroad. The call will require that projects are submitted by international consortium with partners in at least three of the following countries (additional partners from other countries may be part of a consortium if they can secure they own funding):

• Austria
• Belgium (Flanders)
• France
• Italy
• Latvia
• Luxembourg
• Poland
• Romania
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• United Kingdom

Please note that this pre-announcement is for information purposes only and does not create any obligation for the CHIST-ERA consortium or for any of the participating funding agencies. No further information will be given until the call is published.