ADMINISTRATIVE FORM(PART A)

Proposal title: 7G
Acronym: 7G

Abstracts
Short summary (max. 2,000 characters, with spaces) to clearly explain: 
o   Objectives 
o   Activities 
o   Type and number of persons benefiting from the project 
o   Expected results 
o   Type and number of outputs to be produced 
Will be used as the short description of the proposal in the evaluation process and in communications with the programme management committees and other interested parties. • Do not include any confidential information. 
• Use plain typed text, avoiding formulae and other special characters. If the proposal is written in a language other than English, please include an English version of this abstract in the “Technical Annex” section.

The objective of 7G is to create permanent attention in and around the arts for the political realities that are created by the presence of technological developments. The project evokes critical awareness by setting up a trajectory around networked communication technologies and their mode of implementation, through a series of co-creations, exchanges, experiments.
The activities work at two levels: they partly zoom in on detailed experience-based interactions that engage participants in 'making infrastructures together', and partly they zooms out to relate alternative movements around technologies to wider social political developments. 
(describe here shortly for each node)

The project results in ...... (bit of confusion how to interpret 'result'. Is it 'effects'?)

7G is directly beneficial to artists, arts organisations, international bio farming network, union defending independent sexworkers, resistance archivists, technology developers (a.o) Anyone whose life is impacted by the forced implementation of wireless standard could use the outputs of the project to argue for less-commercially driven dynamics in such process.

7g outputs a body of documentation that is useable for partners, intrest groups and third parties: summit reports, case studies material, experiment findings. They are produced and disseminated under free licenses. 7g results in a collectively formulated recommendation for the 7th generation mobile network. This project pro-actively proposes alternative realities and desires to this global wireless standard in pamhlet papers that superseed industrial technical specifications. 7g outputs collective and participatory art that inspires and constitutes new techno-social imagenairies.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION (PART B)

1. RELEVANCE 
1.1 Background and objectives
Describe the background and rationale of the project. How is the project relevant to the scope of the call? How does the project address the objectives of the call? What is the project’s contribution to the priorities of the call?

Relevance to the call
The project enhances artistic and cultural cooperation and supports creation. It is innovative in its designing new cross-sectoral practices, that promote inclusion and cross-cultural exchange. 

* Answering to the priorities of the culture strand (page 7 in the call)
        * resilience / recovery after covid19
        * innovation and joint creations
        * co-production, cooperation, learning, connection
        * capacity building of artists

    * Answering to the Cross cutting issues (page 8)
        * Inclusion diversity geder equality
        * environment and the fight against climate change

    * Most important: answer to the objectives on page 10: 
        * Innovation: the applying organisations improve and extend working across sectoral borders
    between arts, technology and other sectors. The project experiments with formats that are uncommon in cultural institutes such as permanent presence of the projects questioning in a public programme, hands on field experiments with hybrid audiences, long term exchange 'co-habitations' between artists and socially engeaged networks. 
    Culture is structuring solidarities, and we are interested in developing methodologies that empower connections in and beyond the arts. Instead of increasing competeiveness, enforcing ways to work together over boundaries seems a sustainable way to stimulate exchange and creativity. 
    
    * social inclusion
        * by bringing together partners from technology, the arts, agriculture, urban studies, social sector around questions of technological standardisation and its implications on lifes, 7G is empowering societal resilience. We work with politically, racially, sexually marginalised people and develop transversal and inclusive practices.
    * new technologies: 
        * the project puts into question the endorcement of future technological developments that are defined by industry only. We are promoting an active engagement by cultural institutes with the orientation of technology that is developed 'for' people and 7G is expliciting this in its activities through which we are actively 'doing infrastructuring together' By scrutinizing ethics and available technologies outside of the GAFAM sphere, we enhance our and others agility, effectiveness while staying close to human relational cultural values.
        
1.2 Needs analysis
Needs analysis
Describe how the objectives of the project are based on a sound needs analysis in line with the objectives of the call.  What issue/challenge/gap does the project aim to address? The objectives should be clear, measureable, realistic and achievable within the duration of the project. For each objective, define appropriate indicators for measuring achievement (including a unit of measurement, baseline value and target value).

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1.3 Complementarity with other actions and innovation—European added value
[OPTION  by default (all except Creative Europe Desks):
Complementarity with other actions and innovation 
Explain  how  the  project builds  on  the  results  of past activities carried out in the fieldand describe its innovative aspects. Explain how the activities are complementary to other activities carried out by other organisations. Illustrate  the  European  dimension  of  the  activities:  trans-national  dimension  of  the  project;  impact/interest  for a number of EU countries; possibility to use the results in other countries, potential to develop mutual trust/cross-border cooperation among EU countries, etc. Which countries will benefit from the project (directly and indirectly)? Where will the activities take place?

1.4 Cross-cutting priorities 
Environment and the fight against climate change
Explain what in the project design and its implementation will specifically contribute to tackling environmental challenges? 
Gender balance, inclusion,  diversity  and representativeness. 
Explain  what in the project design  and its implementation will ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness? 

2. QUALITY OF CONTENT AND ACTIVITIES

2.1 Concept  and methodology
Concept and methodology 
Outline the approach and methodology behind the project. Explain why they are the most suitable for achieving the project’s objectives.

CONCEPT
(Below from https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/cdoyTBKKQzirAT7?dir=undefined&openfile=509504)

What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructuresthat admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence.What remains is the potential we have to common infrastructures that absorb the blowsof our aggressive need for the world to accommodate us. (Lauren Berlant, The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times)

Connective technologies of the future will have to be made by, with and for inhabitants of all walks of life. 7G brings together various techno-urban agents that want to grow cities into more inhabitable environments, and that refuse to surrender them to the predatory forces of capitalism. 

7G is working from inter-generational, culturally diverse, interspecies and multi-abled perspectives on ways to erode and implode the techno-solutionist expectations that allow communication industries to roll out unwanted 5G infrastructures in European cities such as for example in Barcelona, Brussels and Amsterdam.
7G jumps the predictable innovation curve to look ahead just far enough to gain time for rethinking the needs of citizens and cities when it comes to mobility and wireless communication. 

The project is organised around the articulation of a desirable infrastructure, its software and hardware specifications and modes of commoned governance. 7G works in close collaboration with local citizen-initiatives, in dialogue with urban interest groups around animals, plants, humans and microbiology, involving soon-to-be-retired machine-human configurations such as robots, neural networks and cyborgs. 

7G aims to develop and intensify capacities, narratives and resilience of those that usually find themselves outside the decision making circles when it comes to defining theobjectives, purpose and implementation of communication technology.For 7G, the narrow view on innovation that frames the industrial push for 5G is unacceptable and anachronistic. Cities like Brussels need less cars and data traffic, other mobility, less emissions, different uses of computation and technological infrastructures that will not be outdated before they are even implemented. 

We need more ways to practice the complexity of living together, we need citizens technologists, generous knowledge sharing and forms of sustainable accountability.7G brings together independent, activist/hacker and academically affiliated researchers that want to collectively study, observe and exchange knowledge which contributes to imaginations of radical co-habitative cities. We will engage in observation and knowledge building; in collective experimentation and imagination. Through research meetings, gatherings, test-sites and the development of prototypes we want to come to terms with the complex socia-geo-political issues surrounding the implementation, legislative and physical of connective technologies. They are scrutinized, analysed and opened up for study, citizen-proposals, artistic experiment, social interventions and new imaginations.7G is not anti-technology but an attempt to think with them in ways that could endorse the flourishing of many different lives in urban settings. Before we pay the ultimate price of ubiquitous “smartness”, we propose to invest some of its resources directly into sustainable perspectives with constructive future roadmaps and possible timelines. We think it is urgent to move away from the logic of efficiency, innovation and optimization: it is time to imagine mobility and connectivity otherwise. This means investing in the agency of complex-collectives that co-inhabit our cities and that have to deal with (and pay for) the perpetual upgrading from 1G to 2G to 3G to 4G and soon also 5G. The next technological protocol needs to break with the linear sequence of destructive technological infrastructures.

METHODOLOGY
a shared methodology throughout the project is to work with continous studygroups. They follow up the proceedings of the project, they can initiate and activate moments and discussions and they give input on how to develop the project further. 

(this can be described how it works for every partner in a specific way)

mapping
assembly - exchanges
experiments
human scale
..

2.2 Partnership  and consortium
Partnership and consortium (if applicable)
Describe the participants (Beneficiaries, Affiliated Entities and Associated Partners, if any) and explain how they will work together to implement the project. How will they bring  together  the  necessary  expertise?  How will they complement each other? In  what  way  does  each of the participants contribute to the project? Show that each has a valid role and adequate resources to fulfil that role.

The partnership is between three organisations that are each having specific characteristics. Constant is a small arts organisation that is run by artists, organising collective concept development activities with artists and cultural producers in the field of media and the arts. MACBA is a larger institute / museum with a public function to exhibit and make public contemporary arts discourse. 5G lab of the UVA is an experimental research oriented science project. By working together we enlargen our scope and field of expertise and establish a complementary work to which each brings specific contributions to the partnership.

2.3 Target groups  and audiences
Target groups and audiences
Define the target groups and audiences. Describe how will they be reached and how they will benefit concretely from the project —what would change for them?

The changes for target groups and audiences will be to have an opportunity to reflect in depth on how the development and implementation of technology effects conditions of living at large. The imaginaries that will be produced throughout the project influence how people perceive the ubiquitous presence of devices, control systems and how this can be imagined differently in such a way that they align with futures that are benificial for living beings, urban and rural habitats, outside of the profit oriented paradigs that are put forward by industry.

Target groups: 
Social and activist networks investing in re-orienting development of wireless technology in critical relation to so called 'smart' technologies. The project will help open avenues of agency we don't know of yet. 

Artists, art workers (institutional, independent) who work on reclaiming tools and infrastructures to better suit their ideals and practices. The project provides critical attitudes, tools, and methodologies that help re-orient away from the GAFAM imperium towards more sustainable technological ecologies that are based on values of solidarity, support and collectivity.

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Audiences:
This topic is crucial for everyone, therefore we aim at reaching a general audience. The work we will do within this framework is having clear focuss on certain particular groups such as art workers, institutions, farming communities, sexworkers, technology developers, etc etc. But the discourse that is unfolded will be recognisable and relevant for everybody.

2.4 Project design
Project design
Description of the project and its main activities. 
Identify and describe the main activities to be undertaken to produce results, justifying the choice of  activities and specifying the role of each organisation involved in the activities (co-applicants, affiliated entities, associated partners, subcontractors and/or recipients of financial support, where applicable). Do not repeat the information provided in section 5, but provide the details that are required for a complete understanding of the activities to be implemented,  and demonstrate coherence and consistency of the project design. 

[ we write this after the packages are described so we are sure not to double the information ]

Financial support to third parties (if applicable)
If financial support to third parties is allowed in the Call document, set out the conditions for managing this. Define the objectives and results to be obtained with financial support. Include also the complete list of activities that are eligible for financial support, the types of entity or categories ofpersons which may receive financial support, the criteria for selecting these entities and the criteria for determining the amount of financial support for each third party as well  as  the maximum amount which may be given. This total must be the same as the amount included in the budget annex. If it exceeds EUR 60.000, complete also the declaration in section 6.

[ is this applicable ? ]

3.PROJECT MANAGEMENT
3.1 Consortium  management and decision-making
Consortium  management and decision-making (if applicable)
Explain the management structures and decision-making mechanisms within the consortium. Describe how decisions will be taken and how  regular and effective communication will be ensured. Describe methods to ensure planning and control. Note:The concept (including organisational structure and decision-making mechanisms) must be adapted to the complexity and scale of the project.

[ Below is from an earlier application, to be reviewed if this is relevant for 7G ]

The consortium, represented by the coordinator and the other two beneficiaries, will act as horizontaly as possible in the decision making process all along the duration of the project. The relation between the partners is based on mutual trust and sharing of responsabilities. Staff members will regularly meet online to evaluate the progression of the project and discuss content and program development. These Partners Update meetings will be organised inbetween the main activities, allowing staff to exchange and to learn from each others ways of working. An internal mailinglist will be set up to allow the teams to quickly communicate with each other, ask questions and share information. Pads will be use for co-writing and taking notes of each meeting. To inforce transparency of management, all working documents including budgets will be uploaded regularly on a common server and be available and accessible to all staff members. Two physical meetings - the Kick-off meeting and the Wrap-up meeting - will take place respectivelly at the biginning and at the end of the project. The coordinator will take on the mediation role with the EU agency as well as the administrative check and reporting and this, through regular Admin meetings set up with each partner before and after each main activity. An administrative update will be done between the coordinator and the partners also at the end of each financial year and before each intermidiary report. Each beneficiary will be responsible for the implementation of a Working Package and its connected activities as well as communication and dissemination. Moreover, each co-beneficiary will commit in handing on in due time the administrative documentation needed by the co-ordinator for reporting.

3.2 Project teams, staff  and outside  resources
Project teams and staff 
Describe the project teams and how they will work together to implement the project.List  the  staff  included  in  the  project  budget  (budget category A) by function/profile (e.g. project manager, senior expert/advisor/researcher, junior expert/advisor/researcher, trainers/teachers, technical personnel,  administrative personnel etc.—use the same profiles as in the detailed budget table, if any)and describe brieflytheir tasks.

Name and function 
Organisation 
Role/tasks/professional profile and expertise 

[ Below is from an earlier application, to be reviewed if this is relevant for 7G ]
Each beneficiary will have two staff members involved in the implementation of the project: a project menager and a researcher who will take care of coordination and content development. They will be flanked by a staff member responsible for the administration and, if needed, b

Outside resources (subcontracting, seconded staff, etc) If  you  do  not  have  all  skills/resources in-house, describe how you intend to get them (contributions of members, partner organisations, subcontracting, etc). If there is subcontracting, please also complete the table in section 5.


3.3 Cost  effectivenessand financial management
Cost effectiveness and financial management 
Describe the measures adopted to ensure that the proposed results and objectives will be achieved in the most cost-effective way. Indicate the arrangements adopted for the financial management of the project and, in particularand where relevant, how  the financial resources will be allocated and managed within the consortium. Do  NOT  compare  and  justify  the  costs  of  each work package, but summarize briefly why your budget is cost effective.

3.4 Project   management,  quality   assurance,  risk  managementand   monitoring   and evaluation strategy
Project management, quality  assurance and monitoringand evaluation  strategy
Describe the measures planned to ensure that the project implementation is of high quality and completed in time.Describe the methods to ensure good quality, monitoring, planning and control.Describe the evaluation methods andindicators (quantitative and qualitative) to monitor and verify the outr eac h and coverageof  the activities and results (including unit of measurement, baseline and target values). The indicators proposed to measure progress should be relevant, realistic and measurable.

Critical risks and risk management strategy
Describe  critical  risks,  uncertainties  or  difficulties  related  to  the  implementation  of  your  project,  and  your measures/strategy for addressing them. Indicate for each risk (in the description) the impact and the likelihood that the risk will materialise ( high,  medium, low), even  after taking into account the mitigating measures.
Note:Uncertainties and unexpected events occur in all organisations, even if very well-run. The risk analysis will help you to predict issues that could delay or hinder project activities. A good risk management strategy is  essential for  good project management.

Risk 
Description 
Work package  
Proposed risk-mitigation measures

4. DISSEMINATION
4.1 Impact and ambition
Impact and ambition 
—Progress beyond  the state-of-the-art(n/a for Creative Europe Desks)Define the short, medium and long-term effects of the project. Does the project aim to trigger change/innovation? If so, describe the changes / innovations envisaged and the degree of ambition (progress beyond the status quo/state-of-the-art).



Impact on non-EU  countries (if applicable)(n/a for Creative Europe Desks)
Please specify which country(ies) will benefit from the project and explain why the project is importantfor this (those) country(ies)? Specify the ways the project aims to improve the situation the country(ies) concerned?

4.2 Communication, dissemination  and visibility
Communication, dissemination and visibility  of funding
Describe the communication and dissemination activities which are planned in order to promote the Creative Eur ope Programme  to  the  relevant  stakeholders,  the  project  activities/results  and maximise the impact(to whom, which format,  how many, etc.). Clarify how you will reach the target groups, relevant stakeholders, policymakers and the general public and explain the choice of the dissemination channels. Describe how the visibility of EU funding will be ensured. 

4.3 Sustainability  and continuationS
ustainability,  long-term impact and continuation (n/a for Creative Europe Desks) Describe  the  follow-up  of  the  project  after  the  EU  funding  ends.  How  will  the  project  impact  be  ensured  and sustained? What  will  need  to  be done?  Which  parts  of  the  project  should  be  continued  or  maintained?  How  will  this  be achieved? What resources will be necessary to continue the project? How will the results be used?Are there any possible synergies/complementarities with other (EU funded)activities that can build on the project  results?

5. WORK PLAN, WORK PACKAGES,  TIMING AND SUBCONTRACTING
5.1 Work plan 
Work plan
Provide a brief description of the overall structure of the work plan (list of work packages or graphical presentation (Pert chart or similar)).

Workpackage 1: Administration
Workpackage 2: Macba
Workpackage 3: 5G lab
Workpackage 4: Constant
Workpackage 5: Website


5.2 Work packages  and activities
WORK  PACKAGES
This section concerns a detailed description of the project activities. Group your activities into work packages. A work package means a major sub-divisi on of the project. For each work package, enter an objective (expected outcome) and list  the ac t i vi t ies,  milestones and deliverables that belong to it.The grouping should be logical and guided by identifiable outputs. Projects should normallyhave a minimum of 2 work packages. WP1should cover the management and coordination activities (meetings, coordination, project monitoring and evaluation, financ ial management, progress reports, etc) and all the activities which are cross-cutting and therefore difficult to assign to anotherspecific work package(do not  t r y s plitting t hes e ac t i vit i es ac r oss different work packages). WP2and further WPs should be usedfor the other project activities.You can create as many work packages as needed by copying WP1.Work packages covering financial supportto third parties (only allowed if authorised in the Call document) must describe the conditions for implementing the support (for grants: max amounts per third party; criteria for calculating the exact amounts, types of activity that qualify (closed list), persons/categories of persons to be supported and criteria and procedures for giving support; for prizes: eligibility and award criteria, amount of the prize and payment arrangements). Enter each activity/milestone/output/outcome/deliverable only once (under one work package).

Work Package 1: [Name, e.g. Project management and coordination]
Duration:
Lead Beneficiary:1-Short name

Objectives
List the specific objectives to which this work package is linked. 

Activities  (what, how, where) and division  of work
Provide a concise overview of the work (planned tasks). There should be a limited number of tasks per work package: the definition of tasks should enable the lead b enef ic iar y t o moni t or  t he overall progress of the work package. Be specific and give a short name and number for each task. Show who is participating in each task: Coordinator (COO), Beneficiaries (BEN), Affiliated Entities (AE), Associated Partners (AP), indicating i n boldthe task leader. .In monobeneficiary pr oj ect sthe ‘COO’ and ‘BEN’are the same.Add information on other participants’ involvement in the project e.g. subcontractors, in-kind contributions. 
Note:In-kind contributions: 
In-kind contributions for free are cost-neutral, i.e. cannot be declared as cost.Please indicate the in-kind contributions that are provided in the context of this work package.The Coordinator remains fully responsible for the coordination tasks, even if they are delegated to someone else. Coordinator tasks cannot be subcontracted.If there is subcontracting, please also complete the table below.

Task No(continuous numbering linked  to WP)
Task Name
Description
Participants
    Name
    Role(COO,  BEN, AE,AP,OTHER)
In-kind Contributions and Subcontracting (Yes/No and w hich)

1.2 Milestones and deliverables (outputs/outcomes)
Milestone sare control points in the project that help to chart progress. Use them only for major outputs in complicated projects. Otherwise leave the section on milestones empty. Means of verification are how you intend to prove that a milestone has been reached. If appropriate, you can also refer to indicators.Del i verabl esare  project  outputs  which  are submitted to show project progress (any format). Refer only to major outputs.Do notinclude minor sub-items, internal working papers,meeting minutes, etc. Limit the number of deliverables to max 10-15 for the entire project. You may be asked to further reduce the number during grant preparation.For deliverables such as meetings, events, seminars, trainings, workshops, webinars, conferences, etc., enter each deliverable separately and provide the followi ng i n t he 'D es c r i pt i on' f i eld:  invitation,  agenda,  signed presence list, target group, number of estimated participants, duration of the event, report of the event, training material package, presentations, evaluation report, feedback questionnaire. For deliverables such as manuals, toolkits, guides, reports, leaflets, brochures, training materials etc.,add in the ‘Description’ field:format (electronic or printed), language(s), approximate number of pages and estimated number of copies of publications (if any). For each deliverable you will have to indicate a due month by when you  commit to upload it in the Portal. The due month of thedeliverable cannot be outside the duration of the work package and must be in line with the timeline provided below.Month 1 marks the start of the project and all deadlines should be related to this starting date.
The labels used mean:
    Public —fully open (automatically posted online on the Project Results platforms)
    Sensitive —limited under the conditions of the Grant Agreement
    EU  classified —RESTREINT-UE/EU-RESTRICTED, CONFIDENTIEL-UE/EU-CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET-UE/EU-SECRETunder Decision 2015/444.

Milestone No(continuous numbering not linked  to WP)
Milestone Name
Work Package No
Lead Beneficiary
Description
Due Date(month number)
Means of Verification

Deliverable No(continuous numbering linked  to WP)
Deliverable Name
Work Package No
Lead Beneficiary
Type
Dissemination Level
Due Date(month number)
Description (including format and language)

Estimated budget —Resources
For Lump Sum Grants, see detailed budget table (annex 1 to Part B; see Portal Reference Documents).

Events and  trainings 
Events  and trainings (including  performances, residencies, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, etc. both  face to face and virtual events are to be included).

This table is to be completed for events that have been mentioned as part of the activities in the work packages above. Complete the table below with realistic estimates in terms of the number of attendees / participants/ audience size. This data will be used in part to assess the success of the implementation of  the project. Use your risk assessment to explain your mitigating measures.
Event No(continuous numbering linked to WP)
Participant
Description
Attendees
Name 
Type
Area
Location
Duration

5.4 Subcontracting
Subcontracting 
Give details on subcontracted project tasks (if any) and explain the reasons why (as opposed to direct implementation by the Beneficiaries/Affiliated Entities). Subcontracting —Subcontracting meansthe implementation of ‘action tasks’, i.e. specific tasks which are part of the EU grant and are described in Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement.Note: Subcontracting concerns the outsourcing of a part of the project to a party outside the consortium. It is not simply about purchasing goods or services. We normally expect that the participant s  have sufficient operational capacity to implement the project activities themselves. Subcontracting should therefore be exceptional.Include only subcontracts that comply with the rules (i.e. best value for money and no conflict of interest; no subcontracting of coordinator tasks).

Work Package No
Subcontract No(continuous numbering linked  to WP)
Subcontract Name(subcontracted action tasks)
Description (including task number and BEN to which it is linked)
Estimated Costs(EUR)
Justification(why is subcontracting necessary?)
Best-Value-for-Money(how  do you intend to ensure it)

LIST OF ANNEXES
- Detailed  budget table (annex 1 to Part B) [mandatory]
- List of  previous projects (annex 4 to Part B) [mandatory]

Others:

- a  declaration  of  honour signed by each partner and affilitated entities (DoH)