GCTC Participation Guide and NSF Grant for GCTC Action Clusters

Global City Teams Challenge 2016 - Participation Guide

I am thrilled to see so many folks expressing interest in joining the Global City Teams Challenge! For your convenience, we have created a detailed Participation Guide. This guide will assist you with worksheet submissions, describe upcoming events, and identify GCTC participation deadlines. The Guide also includes due dates for applicable grants and links to applications for the tools that GCTC partners IBM and Intel have made available to GCTC participants.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding Opportunity for GCTC Projects The National Science Foundation has recently issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that makes available funding for GCTC Action Clusters. To be considered for this grant, the applicant must be an active member of a GCTC Action Cluster that is working on a project that will build upon the results of a previous or active NSF-funded project.

To learn more about this funding opportunity, please click here. The application deadline is April 1, 2016. Please note, however, that NSF will review applications as they are submitted. Please contact Bill Maguire if you would like to discuss your potential application. I encourage all to consider applying for this unique funding opportunity.

SCOPE w/GCTC at CPS Week
The First International Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE w/GCTC) will take place on April 11th in Vienna, Austria. This conference provides an opportunity for the GCTC teams and smart city stakeholders to present and publish their technical accomplishments. Many researchers in GCTC are members of the program committee. The dealine to submit your paper has been extended to Janury 29th, please visit http://cps-vo.org/group/SCOPE-16 to learn more.

GCTC LinkedIn Group
Finally, GCTC has established a GCTC LinkedIn Group where members can exchange ideas, create new Action Clusters and reinforce existing Action Clusters with additional team members. We believe the LinkedIn Group should help facilitate GCTC team formation. For instance, if you are a current or former NSF grantee with an interest in connecting with a members of GCTC Action Clusters, you could join the GCTC LinkedIn Group and submit a post. Likewise, if members of a GCTC Action Cluster would like to connect with a current or former NSF grantee, a posting on the GCTC LinkedIn group might be a good first step! Please contact Mariya Cherk with any questions about the GCTC LinkedIn Group - mariya.cherk@us-ignite.org.