New deadline October 1st, 2010

General Call for Proposals

The Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation is an international consortium of research and market parties for research into the design and management of infrastructures, such as energy, water, telecommunications, road and rail infrastructures.

The NGInfra Foundation is soliciting new research projects to be included into the NGInfra research programme. Projects geared towards involving senior (post-doctoral) researchers with strong ties to relevant infrastructure sectors are especially sought.

Proposals must complement or add a new dimension to the on-going research programme (see the themes and projects section of this website). Proposals will be judged on the following criteria:

• fit within the NGInfra programme
• scientific quality
• innovative perspective / approach to the theme
• relevance to society
• quality of proposed research group
  (and associated industrial and/or government partners)
• feasibility of proposed work

For a complete overview of the procedure, the requirements and all relevant contact details,
please download the official document (ZIP file containing both PDF and Word 2003 versions).

New deadline October 1st, 2010

Targeted Call for Proposals

Institutions that Ensure Infrastructure Reliability

The Foundation is soliciting new projects to be included into the research programme under the theme ‘Institutions that ensure infrastructure reliability’. Reliability is about the continuous performance of an infrastructure. In this call we invite contributions on the relationship between institutions and reliability.

For a complete overview of the procedure, the requirements and all relevant contact details,
please download the official document.

Arrangements for Self-Regulation in Infrastructures

The focus of this call for proposals is self-regulation in infrastructures. Its first aim is to deepen our understanding of various forms of arrangements – institutional (formal/informal), technical, norms and values - that achieve regulation without a government agency that sets and enforces the rules and standards relating to the conduct of infrastructure-related actors. Secondly the aim of this call is to systematically analyze to what extent these types of self-regulation can replace the “classical” regulation by governmental bodies with respect to the safeguarding of public values. Additionally, the purpose of this call is to gather scientific insight in the way actors and actions of governmental parties interfere and influence the process, content and effectiveness of self-regulation.

For a complete overview of the procedure, the requirements and all relevant contact details,
please download the official document.

The Role of Institutions in Infrastructure Flexibility

The Foundation is soliciting new projects to be included into the research programme under the theme 'The Role of Institutions in Infrastructure Flexibility'. Ee invite proposals on the role of institutions in infrastructure flexibility. To complement the growing body of knowledge and research on the technological side of infrastructure flexibility we are interested in the interplays in the larger societal constellations. That is, we would like to know how the interplay between institutions and infrastructures influence the flexibility of infrastructures.

For a complete overview of the procedure, the requirements and all relevant contact details,
please download the official document.

Here you can find some key publications representing the established subprogramme's body-of-knowledge >>>

Smart Grids

The Foundation is also soliciting new projects to be included into the research programme under the theme ‘Smart Grids'. This targeted call for proposal is intended to stress the need for viewing the role of smart grids in future energy systems as part of the designing, managing and operating qualitatively new complex socio-technical systems. In first instance we solicit proposals that focus on the power sector, but also on other infrastructure domains as gas and water sector.

For a complete overview of the procedure, the requirements and all relevant contact details,
please download theofficial document.

Here you can find some key publications representing the established subprogramme's body-of-knowledge >>>

Securing public values in layered institutional settings

The Foundation is soliciting new projects to be included into the research programme under the “Public Values subprogramme on the theme: ‘Securing public values in layered institutional settings’". The subprogram has been focusing on securing public values in infrastructure sectors that have been seeing various forms of liberalization and privatization. Elaborating on past research, this call invites proposals about the realization of public values in a layered institutional structure and the complexities of that structures for realizing public values in said infrastructure sectors.

please download the official document.

Here you can find some key publications representing the established subprogramme's body-of-knowledge >>>