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Core Middleware - Early Adopters call for proposals

This circular invites UK further and higher education institutions to become early adopters of the next generation of tools to manage access to online resources. This activity will include the implementation of new technologies within participating institutions, and work on the necessary cultural change and administrative issues that accompany such a move. 

Funding of up to £50,000 is available for each institution or organisation for a one-year period.  Further details of how funding awards will be determined are provided in the full text of the circular below.  Projects are expected to start work in March 2005, and complete no later than the end of April 2006. 

A town meeting was held on 17 November 2004 to discuss this area, and to provide more information to the community concerning JISC’s roadmap for a next generation access management system.