Background

One of the most crucial and striking features of humans and their societies, is the phenomenon of intelligent interaction. Many disciplines from the humanities to the physical sciences hold separate pieces of the puzzle posed by this pervasive but also elusive phenomenon. The EUROCORES programme “LogICCC – Modelling Intelligent Interaction” aims at a deeper understanding of intelligent interaction by letting logic in its modern guise act as a catalyst and a ’match maker’ between these different disciplines. This will lead to a general framework for analyzing intelligent interaction - and the key notions which it naturally brings with it, namely, communication, cognition and computation.

To achieve this goal, researchers from a wide variety of disciplines have been invited to team up. Some of these researchers may be logicians, others may not. But what all participants in LogICCC projects have in common is their interest in understanding interaction, pursued with the common language and models provided by logic in its modern, pluriform, and outward-looking guise. In this way, new ideas will flow symmetrically between many disciplines, enriching logic itself in the process.

In addition, the EUROCORES programme LogICCC is looking for a balance between fundamental theoretical advances and innovative applications of logical models in the thematic areas of interaction, communication, computation, and cognition.

Following agreement with funding organisations in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Turkey, the European Science Foundation has launched a Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme on “Modelling intelligent interaction - Logic in the humanities, social and computational sciences (LogICCC)” in March 2007.  

This programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research and is expected to run for 3-4 years; it includes national research funding as well as support for networking and dissemination activities managed by the ESF*. The participating funding organizations have brought together a research budget of approx. 7.5 Mio Euros.

(*) Currently supported through a contract with the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (EC contract n° ERAS-CT-2003-980409)

At the time of the deadline, 11 May 2007, the Call had attracted 34 Outline Proposals, with 157 individual projects and 46 projects with associate status. On the basis of the criteria published in the Call, the Review Panel selected 16 proposals which have been invited to submit a Full Proposal. Out of these, a total of 8 proposals have been funded, with 30 individual projects and 17 associated partners. These research projects are expected to start in the summer of 2008.

To download the LogICCC Call for Outline Proposals click here.