[P2P-F] Fwd: [members] Re: Huge grant on commons collaborative economy + blockchain

Fri Nov 10 11:17:29 CET 2017

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From: Samer <samer at fdi.ucm.es>
Date: Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:37 AM
Subject: [members] Re: Huge grant on commons collaborative economy +
blockchain
To: P2PValue Project Members List <members at lists.p2pvalue.eu>

Dear all

At last I launched publicly the project on blockchain + collaborative
economy. You have the thread of tweets in:
https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/928820944705130498
(dissemination is appreciated!).

The web of the project: http://p2pmodels.eu
The Twitter of the project: http://twitter.com/p2pmod

Thanks!

Samer Hassan | @samerP2P <http://twitter.com/samerP2P> |
http://samer.hassan.name
Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University
Associate Professor, Univ. Complutense de Madrid

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Samer <samer at fdi.ucm.es> wrote:

> Dear P2Pvalue friends
>
> I want to share with you very good news, which some of you already know. I
> received the ERC grant, the largest personal research grant in Europe (!).
> That means I will have 1.5M€ to work on building blockchain-based
> infrastructure for a commons-oriented collaborative economy. I find pretty
> insane the whole thing, and I'm still overwhelmed with the idea!
>
> I want to thank the whole P2Pvalue community, as without you all this
> wouldn't have been possible. P2Pvalue was my first European project, and it
> has profoundly impacted me, changing the way I see research, academia and
> activism. I have made great friends along the way, and I have now strong
> bonds with many of you. P2Pvalue setted the base for my future research,
> and this ERC grant is a continuation of the same research line, to continue
> and deepen the vision we pushed forward.
>
> So, what's the fuzz about? The ERC
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Research_Council> is a EU funding
> body whose task is basically to give the largest personal research grants
> of the EU research program, to worlwide top researchers, doing projects
> considered "frontier research" and which has potential high impact. Any
> researcher in the world can apply, with the only requirement of being
> willing to do the 5-year project in an European institution. The grant I
> got is the Starting Grant, for "young" researchers, which gives 1.5M€.
> Depending on your career stage, the grant gives different amounts (1.5M, 2M
> and 2.5M).
>
> This project is an interdisciplinary project that aims to provide tools to
> build new types of collaborative communities, which rely on a decentralized
> infrastructure (using blockchain), and have both democratic governance, and
> economic models where profits are distributed. We will also build tools
> (and a testbed) to enable experimentation of new governance and economic
> models over the blockchain. Here it is the abstract
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DCPOMZqqFN8HusHJcpPX9VwXoD0WJpinyFzIcF03JS8/edit>,
> let me know if you want more information, and feel free to share it with
> whomever may be interested.
>
> As a form of giving forward to the P2Pvalue community, I offer myself to
> help whomever of you would want to apply to the ERC grants. And when the
> project starts in a few months, I will make all the proposal documents
> public (and open licensed) with the hope of being useful for others, trying
> to move away from the secretive approach around research proposals. Please
> feel free to contact me for other forms I could be helpful to you!
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Samer | @samerP2P <http://twitter.com/samerP2P> | http://samer.hassan.name
>
>

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