Canales estandarizados por la ITU-T para CWDM 3
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5.6 Activación y provisión del servicio
Fund ID: S8154
Status: Discontinued
Last updated: Not specified
Proposals are invited from international partnerships for research projects that use expertise in space based solutions, applications and capability to provide a
sustainable, economic or societal benefit to undeveloped nations and developing economies. Solutions to specific challenges laid down by the UK Space Agency are sought as well as an opportunity to submit relevant ideas to an open call.
Fund Information
Funding body: UK Space Agency
Maximum value: £ 8,000,000 (€ 9,010,000)
Application deadline: None specified Extended Description
The UK Space Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and is responsible for all the UK efforts to explore space. The agency aims to support academic and industrial communities and the exploitation of space based applications and technology.
The UK Space Agency's International Partnerships Programme (IPP), which replaces the pilot International Partnerships Space Programme (IPSP), offers support for academic and industrial research that uses expertise in space based solutions, applications and capability to address real world problems in partner countries on the Development Assistance
Committee (DAC) list (pdf link). A measurable sustainable, economic or societal benefit must be provided in these countries as a result of the funded projects.
Aside from this primary objective, the Agency also aims for this £152,000,000 multi-year programme to meet the following goals:
• Develop valued and sustainable partnership arrangements, which lead to growth opportunities for the space community.
• Show the additional benefits that space based solutions and applications can have over terrestrial systems.
• Use the unique expertise of industry and academia to complement existing efforts or to lead in areas where the Agency has the expertise.
Applications can be submitted under an open call inviting any project proposal that meets the programme’s overall guidelines or under individual challenges, which might include tactical calls that require solutions to specific country problems, strategic calls addressing a particular region or theme, and short study calls that offer small awards to help applicants scope out an open call idea or one of the tactical and strategic ideas.
IPP Call 2 invites proposals under the following:
• Open call.
• Short Study Call - this has a shorter application deadline and successful recipients will be expected to submit a subsequent bid into the relevant call (by the main call deadline) which is fit for assessment, or to complete a detailed report stating findings and why no bid was submitted for review by UKSA.
All projects are required to have a clearly identified international partner in place, such as an overseas government organisation, a research institute, a local private sector company, or an international organisation (eg NGOs) operating in an overseas market, who will
contribute to the project by committing funding, people resources, equipment, facilities etc. Eligible activities include (but are not limited to):
• Reviews and feasibility studies to identify potential for application to future IPP calls.
• Workshops, visits or exchanges to engage with end users (eg the government of developing countries) and stakeholders to explore their priorities.
• Training, development or people exchange including MSc and PhD students.
• Capacity building to allow a partner country to grow their own capability in an area of interest.
• The provision of essential services to remote or hard to reach areas using satellite communication.
• The provision of public services such as providing environmental monitoring, flood prevention, disease tracking or monitoring of de-forestation.
• Collaborative research which leads to an end benefit. Eligibility Criteria
This scheme is open to any organisations and consortia, in the UK and internationally, that can fulfil the programme criteria. This includes universities, research institutes, Non-
Governmental Organisations (NGOs), overseas private sector companies, overseas charities or overseas government organisations or space agencies.
Applications must have a clearly identified international partner on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) DAC list in place. This could be overseas Government organisations, research institutes or local private sector companies or could be with international organisations (eg NGOs) operating in an overseas market.
Additional Information
IPP proposal workshops will be held in June and August 2017 and monitoring and
evaluation workshops will be held in July 2017 for propsective candidates. Those interested attending or who require more information should email
[email protected] and request to be added to the IPP project management ‘Basecamp’ website to be kept up to date.
Value Notes
Typical projects are expected to be funded somewhere between £100,000 and £10,000,000 over the project life.
For IPP Call 2, the maximum grant limit for any single project will be £10,000,000 with all funded projects to be completed by March 2021 (projects can have a value over this limit if additional funding comes from other sources). Grants of up to £50,000 are available for IPP Call 2 Short Study proposals.
UKSA funding is expected to represent 50% of the total cost of the project (up to 80% full economic costs for UK universities or 60-70% for SMEs) with the remainder being met by industrial partners.
Match Funding Restrictions
Projects should have at least 50% matched funding from industry as a whole. However, universities are eligible to receive funding of up to 80% full economic costs, while small and very small companies are eligible to receive 60-70% funding under the GBER state aid exemption rule. Match funding contributions may be legitimate expenditure that can be audited but do not have to be cash.
Restrictions
The following exclusions apply:
• Projects taking place in India, Pakistan or China, as they already possess advanced space-based applications and capability.
• Proposals that involve partner countries within active and ongoing conflict zones, including (but not limited to) South Sudan, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria.
Terms and Conditions
Proposals will be assessed on the following criteria:
• Clearly identified international partnership and end user engagement.
• Clear delivery aligned to the programme primary goal.
• Appropriate project management approach.
• Assessment of technical work.
• Overall value for money.
• Strength, suitability and experience of applicants, partners and/or project consortia.
• Sustainability of the project outcomes and impacts beyond the period of UKSA funding.
• Ability to clearly show project meets Official Development Assistance definitions and criteria.
• Need for service and impact on the country and quality of the Theory of Change.
• Demonstrable and measurable benefits and impacts, and quality of the Logframe.
• Applicability to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Quality M&E Strategy including appropriate methodology and resourcing.
• Quality of the Knowledge Sharing plan.
Additional points will be available for proposals that can fulfil the following extra criteria:
• Location of the project (South and Central America, North and West Africa,
applicable members of the Commonwealth, applicable Pacific Island states, South East and Central Asia, excluding China, India and Pakistan).
• Whether the project is aligned to priority SDGs. Previous Successes
Successful projects funded under IPP Call 1:
• Earth Observation enabled decision support for Flood and Drought Resilience in Ethiopia and Kenya (Project consortium - Airbus Defence and Space, Vivid Economics Ltd, Oxford University, Sayers and Partners LLP (SPL), GeoSAS Ltd; international partners - Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Kenyan local partners).
• Satellite Image Analysis for Operational Maintenance of a Property Database for Dakar City, Senegal (Project consortium - Airbus Defence and Space;
international partner - New Africa Consulting, Dakar).
• Forestry Management and Protection System for Tackling Illegal Logging in Guatemala (Project consortium - Stevenson Astrosat Ltd, EO Ltd; Deimos;
Telespazio Vega; international partners - National Forestry Institute (INAB); National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP); Guatemala Environmental Police Force
(DIPRONA); Ministry of Agriculture (MAGA); Universidad Rafael Landívar; ARCAS Guatemala).
• Recovery and Protection in Disaster (RAPID) for Vietnam (Project consortium - Stevenson Astrosat Ltd, Telespazio Vega; international partner - Ministry of Science & Technology Vietnam).
• iKnowledge Monitoring and Evaluation Project Phase: using satellite services to support e-education in Tanzania (Project consortium - Avanti Communications, Camara Tanzania, Discovery Learning Alliance, Infinity Africa, Ace Africa (Majibu) and Jigsaw Consult; international partners - Camara Tanzania, Discovery Learning
Alliance, Infinity Africa, Ace Africa (Majibu), Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF) and Tanzania Education Authority (TEA).
• PRISE: Pest Risk Information SErvice for Ghana, Zambia, Kenya and other sub- Saharan African countries (Project consortium - CABI, Assimila, Kings College London, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis; international partners - Plant Protection & Regulatory Services Directorate (PPSRD, Ghana), Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (Kenya), Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI).
• Satellite connectivity for healthcare outcomes in Nigeria (Project consortium - Inmarsat, InStrat, Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development of the University of Leeds; international partners - Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria).
• Forests 2020: Improving forest monitoring systems through better application of satellite data (Project consortium - Ecometrica, University of Edinburgh (NCEO), University of Leicester (NCEO), Carbomap; international partners - Bogor
Agricultural University (IPB), PT Hatfield Indonesia, Daemeter, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Instituto de Pesquisa Ambientalda Amazônia (IPAM), KeyAssociados, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Pronatura Sur, Ambio, FIPRODEFO, University of Andes (UniAndes), Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales de Colombia (IDEAM), The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Colombia, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
Resource Management Support Centre (RMSC) of the Forestry Commission Ghana, Kenya Forest Service).
• EO4cultivar: Delivering analysis-ready and value-added data to the South American agricultural supply chain and farmer advisory services (Project consortium - Environment Systems Ltd, Barfoots, Geoseren, JNCC, EDINA, The Open
University; international partners - ITP CITE Agroindustrial Ica, ITP CITE
Agroindustrial Chavimochic, Danper and DM Agrícola in Peru, Geits in Columbia).
• Operational Take up of a Satellite Automatic Identification System (SAT-AIS) for small vessels in South Africa (Project lead - exactEarth Europe Ltd;
international partners - South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA), National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), Marine Data Solutions (MDSol), Stone Three Venture Technology, Le Centre de Fusion de l’Information Maritime (CFIM), Madagascar).
• RE-SAT (Renewable Energy Space Analytics Tool): Informing the deployment of Renewable Energy in Small Island Developing States using Space Data (Project consortium - Institute for Environmental Analytics (IEA), University of Reading, BuroHappold Engineering; international partners - Government of the Seychelles Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (MEECC) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Smart satellite technology for inclusive & sustainable fishing practices in Indonesia (Project consortium - Inmarsat, Satellite Application Catapult, Poseidon Aquatic Resource Management Ltd; international partners - Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF).
• Reducing the Impact of Natural Disasters by using Satcoms in the Philippines (Project consortium - Inmarsat, Satellite Application Catapult, Telecom Sans
Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), TD International, Devex; international partners - DSWD).
• Crop Observation, Management & Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS) in Mexico (Project consortium - Rezatec Ltd, Booker Tate Ltd, The University of Nottingham; international partners - The International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), Colegio de Postgraduados (COLPOS).
• Drought and Flood Mitigation Service in Uganda (Project consortium - RHEA, Environment Systems, Pixalytics, Databasix, AA International, AgriTechTalk International, HR Wallingford, UK Met Office, Mercy Corps, Oxford Policy
Management; international partners - Uganda Government Ministries, Kakira Sugar Company, Green Dreams/iCOW).
• Satellite Enabled Maritime Domain Awareness for Chile (SEMDAC) (Project lead - Satellite Applications Catapult; international partners - Chilean Navy).
• Earth and Sea Observation System (EASOS) for Malaysia (Project consortium - Satellite Applications Catapult, Janus TCD, Stevenson Astrosat, Geocento, Ambiental, Plymouth Marine Laboratories, AutoNaut, Riskaware, Telespazio Vega, Earth
Observation Inc., Leicester University, Sterling Geo, Oxford University, eOsphere; international partners - National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM).
• C-RISe: Coastal Risk Information Service for Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa (Project consortium - Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd (SatOC), National Oceanography Centre, Bilko Development Ltd; international partners - Centre National de Recherches Océanographiques (CNRO), Institut Halieutique et
des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), Direction Générale de la Météorologie (DGM), WWF Madagascar, Conservation International, Instituto Nacional de Hidrografia e Navegação (INAHINA), Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
• Deforestation prevention with land-use monitoring and valuation in Côte d’Ivoire (Project consortium - Vivid Economics, RSAC (UK); REDD+ Permanent Executive Secretariat, Impactum, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, UN Environment Programme; international partners - Bureau National d’Etudes
Techniques et de Development, Centre Universitaire de Recherche et d’Application en Teledetection).
• Remote mapping and socio-economic valuation tools to support planning and implementation in land-use interventions in Peru (Project consortium - Vivid Economics, RSAC (UK); international partners - MDA (Peru); Peruvian government (MINAM, Serfor-MINAGRI, CIAM).
Successful projects funded under IPSP:
• iKnowledge (UK partner - Avanti Communications Ltd; International partners - The Tanzania Universal Communications Service Access Fund, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training & Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organisation). The funding will be used to deliver a major ICT infrastructure and e-learning programme to teachers across Tanzania.
• SBAS Africa (UK partner - Avanti Communications Ltd; International partners - South African Space Agency, Ghana Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar). The funding will be used to deliver a crucial air navigation project in Africa, SBAS-AFRICA, powered by satellite
technology.
• Outernet Partnership for International Development (UK partner - Clyde Space; International partner - Outernet Inc.) The funding will be used to develop a
telecommunications service that can be offered via a constellation of low-cost cubesat satellites.
• I-Sat Connection: Realising the critical role of mobile satellite in the creation of inclusive digital economies (UK partner - Inmarsat; International partners - Equity Bank Group, Kenya and Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action). The funding will be used for two projects: the first to increase connectivity to drive inclusive digital services at over 200 locations across Kenya and the second to bring maternal and child health services to 50 physically and technologically disconnected rural communities in remote locations.
• Oceania Pacific Recovery and Protection in Disaster (RAPID) (UK partner -
Stevenson Astrosat; International partners - Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, Malawi Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Newsat Ltd, Bushfire
and Natural Hazards Co-operative Research Centre & the Space Environment Research Centre). The funding will be used for developing the RAPID system, which is designed to provide a vital link between critical satellite imaging information and ‘in the field’ emergency responders making crucial decisions during and in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
• Enabling Kazakhstan’s Earth Observation Capability (UK partner - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL); International partner - Ghalam LLP). The funding will be used in the development of an autonomous and collaborative Mission Operations system to handle the high volume of Earth observation data that will be downloaded from the KazSTSATspacecraft’s SSTL SLIM6 Imager.
• Collaborative Development of Radiometer Components for Meteorological Instruments (UK partner - Teratech Components Ltd; International partner - Xi’an Institute of Space Radio Technology). The funding will be used for the collaborative development of instrumentation for the next generation of weather forecasting and disaster management satellites.
Application Procedure
Applications must be made using the relevant application form available to download from the UK Space Agency website. This should be submitted by email to the UK Space Agency, along with any supporting documents, by the deadline of 9 May 2017 (IPP 2 Short Study Call) or 5 September 2017 (main IPP 2 Open Call).
UKSA will aim to notify successful Study Call applicants by w/c 15 May 2017. Useful links
UK Space Agency Website
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following: UK Space Agency
Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon
Wiltshire SN2 1SZ
Tel: 020 7215 5000 Fax: 01793 41 8099
E-Mail: [email protected]