Intentional Agreement of CWI
This page is create for discussion
Parts of the intentional agreement:
- Focus on Research and Innovation in Wireless (Applied Research?)
- Membership by invitation only
- Process consists of three steps
- Initial agreement academic partners
- Invitation of core industrial partners
- Extension of CWI with new academic and industrial partners
- Equal rights: Each partner has one vote, decisions are taken by simple majority
- Center leader has no voting right
- Should we state that the research institutions have at least 50%+1 vote?
- Goal to establish CWI
- Location of CWI is subject to decision of the initial steering board
- should we clarify that on forehand? makes it easier to hire a person
- Location is fixed for the first two years, then subject to decision from the steering board
- Initial Steering board consists of founding partners. A founding partners is a partner who has approved the intentional agreement by 28. Feb 2009
- Contribution of 100 kNOK/year for three years for Academic Institutions
- calendar year, or formal start of center when three partners have signed the agreenment?
- The Institution that will host the center contributes with an additional 200 kNOK (once) plus infrastructure (rooms, phone)
- As soon as three partners have signed the Intentional Agreement then CWI will open a post for the centerleader.
Role of center leader
- Is director of the Center
- Coordinate the co-operation between the partners
- Takes leadership for common research proposals, especially for the SFI in 2009
- Acts as secretary for the steering board (no vote)
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