Information for Applicants

External applications are now closed!

CleanSky ITN cordially invites applications from external student participants in the PhD stage of their career. However, note that there are two major differences between CleanSky fellows and external participants:

• Fees: CleanSky ITN does not strive to make a profit. However, to cover our expenses, external attendees will need to pay a registration fee of 200 Euros. The fee includes all meals (lunch, dinner and coffee breaks Monday through Friday) and social events, but does not include hotel costs. Please book your own room. Payment logistics will be provided to successful applicants.


• Application procedure: External attendees need to successfully apply for a limited number of slots in the CleanSky Summer School, whereas CleanSky fellows are accepted participants by default. Slots are given to applicants based on a First-Come-First-Serve basis that is subject to rejection of the application materials. External attendees are invited to present a poster showcasing their work during a student poster session.
  
  To apply for a slot, please submit the following documents by e-mail, in a single file (either .PDF or .ZIP-archive), by 30^th April, 2016 to summer16[at]cleansky-itn.eu:
  
  
  • Your curriculum vitae (CV)
  • A letter of recommendation from your current PhD supervisor that indicates why you would benefit from participating in the summer school
  • An abstract for a poster you want to show during the summer school

Guidelines for poster submission: The applicant must submit a two-page abstract (including tables/figures if any) in PDF format that describes his/her work. Prepare your abstract using ACM SIG Alternate conference style .

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CleanSky is an Initial Training Network (ITN) funded by the Marie-Curie-Actions within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (EU FP7). As a new paradigm for information technology (IT), cloud computing is “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”

Cloud computing is evolving and supported not only in small data centers but also over large scale, energy-efficient new computing infrastructures. Example scenarios of large-scale cloud computing include scientific computing and telecommunication services, where big data and traffic are generated and need to be processed in a cost-efficient manner.

CleanSky ITN aims to develop innovative ideas in the emerging areas within the “eco-system” of cloud computing: data center evolution, consolidation and service migration, and beyond, via structural training of young researchers. To achieve this goal, a unique combination of academic institutions and industrial organizations will collaborate together and create a multidisciplinary (computer science, telecommunications, scientific computing and optimization theory), international (four European countries plus USA and China) and intersectoral (public and private; education and industry) environment to embed a pool of young researchers for innovative research in cloud computing.

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