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Report EUR 17321 EN |
A levy of 6% of the institutional budget is used to finance
exploratory research. In 1996 the scientific staff of ISIS made
a total of 65 proposals. The ISIS Scientific Committee then judged
the proposals on originality, appropriateness, soundness and cost.
Special priority was given to those projects that had a high potential
to generate future work for the Institute and those that combined
the skills of the two merged institutes - ISEI (Institute for
Systems, Engineeringand Informatics) and IST (Institute for Safety
Technology).
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On these grounds, the Scientific Committee produced a shortlist of 16 proposals, 12 of which were then funded. Work started in May 1996. It is expected that most of the projects will continue until the end of 1997 but there have already been a number of results obtained:....
