Les presentamos las últimas novedades en materia de I+D+i remitidas por el CDTI:

• Llamada internacional Globalstar con EMBRAPII. Dentro del marco de Eureka donde se contempla el desarrollo conjunto de proyectos de cualquier área tecnológica, especialmente en los ámbitos de la Salud y Sostenibilidad, entre ambos países.
  El consorcio participante en cada proyecto debe incluir, al menos, una empresa de uno de los países miembros del programa Eureka que participan en esta convocatoria, una empresa de Brasil y el centro de investigaciónUnidad Embrapii. En esta convocatoria pueden participar las entidades de los siguientes países: Brasil, Finlandia, Portugal, España y Países Bajos.
  El periodo para presentar las solicitudes finaliza el 11 de octubre de 2022.
  Mas información sobre esta llamada la puede encontrar en EMBRAPII-Globalstars-Eureka.
• Expresión de interés CONFAP (Brasil) – CDTI (España). 2022-2023.
  Como parte de sus actividades de internacionalización, el CDTI ha firmado en septiembre del 2021 una Carta de Intenciones con CONFAP (Conselho Nacional das Fundações Estaduais de Amparo à Pesquisa) de Brasil. Dentro del contexto de la Carta de Intenciones se ha realizado una llamada de expresiones de interés para presentar propuestas de cooperación en materia de I+D en cualquier temática y sector, para los años 2022 y 2023 con las siguientes fechas de corte: 16 de septiembre de 2022, 20 de abril de 2023 y 15 de septiembre de 2023.
  Mas información sobre la participación de las entidades brasileñas se puede encontrar en el siguiente enlace: CHAMADA CONFAP & CDTI 2022-2023.
• Qatar Research Development and Innovation Council
• El CDTI lanza una búsqueda de una empresa española para colaborar en el tratamiento de residuos de la industria siderúrgica con la India
• Preanuncio de la licitación para el sistema de sincronización y distribución de la señal UTC del Square Kilometre Array. Este contrato se licitará por parte del SKAO únicamente a entidades españolas, ya que está preadjudicado a nuestro país. Al final del correo podéis consultar el alcance de la licitación así como las fechas de sus diferentes fases:
  • ILO notification 05-Jul-22 26-Jul-22 (actualmente estamos en esta fase, en la que SKAO me ha avisado como ILO de SKAO para España del anuncio de licitación)
  • Market Survey 27-Jul-22 24-Aug-22
  • Pre-qualification of supplier 25-Aug-22 29-Sep-22
  • Tender Period 30-Sep-22 25-Nov-22
  • ITT Tech Evaluation 26-Nov-22 10-Dec-22
  • ITT Commercial Evaluation 11-Dec-22 23-Dec-22
  • Raise Procurement Requisition 23-Dec-22 23-Dec-22
  • Draft award recommendation doc 09-Jan-23 23-Jan-23
  • Review by Programme Director and Head of
  • Mission Assurance
  • 24-Jan-23 31-Jan-23
  • Review and recommendation by FC/TSC 01-Feb-23 15-Feb-23
  • Approval and contract signature by D-G 16-Feb-23 23-Feb-23
  • Contract Award (competitive, cash) 24-Feb-23 25-Feb-23

  Cualquier empresa interesada debe registrarse en el SKAO Supplier Portal y a partir del próximo 27 de julio inscribirse a la licitación para participar en las diferentes fases de la misma. En caso de que os interese y vayáis a inscribiros, por favor informadme a través de un correo electrónico.

  Scope Summary: The SKA is a next-generation radio astronomy-driven Big Data facility that will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe and the laws of fundamental physics. Enabled by cutting-edge technology, it promises to have a major impact on society, in science and beyond. The observatory will consist of two world-class complementary telescopes, one with an array of mid-frequency dishes and one with an array of low-frequency log-periodic antennas, both operating in the radio regime of the electromagnetic spectrum:

   

  • SKA MID: An array of 197 dishes, comprising 64 dishes (currently forming the MeerKAT telescope) and 133 15-m diameter dishes, the greatest distance between two dishes being 150km, located in South Africa. The MID Telescope covers a frequency range of 0.35 – 15.4 GHz over 5 bands
  • SKA LOW: An array of 131,072 antennas grouped in 512 stations, the greatest distance between two antenna stations being 65km, located in Western Australia. The LOW telescope covers a frequency range from 50 – 350 MHz

   

  Radio telescopes, such as the SKA, require phase-coherent reference signals to be transmitted to the digitiser system to generate coherent sampling clocks for the digitisation process. The required phase coherence is directly related to the frequency of the observed radio signals, the higher the observed frequency the greater the phas  coherence required.

   The SAT MID System creates and distributes frequency and time reference signals from a central clock ensemble to all systems and/or subsystems of the SKA MID telescope that require frequency and time reference signals. It maintains phase coherence and stability to the required accuracy for all Dishes, and timing signals for data identification and time critical activities at the Dishes and the MID Central Signal Processing (CSP) system.

   In particular the SAT MID System produces a reference frequency that is used to generate sampler clocks for the analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) in the MID Dish Single Pixel Feed Receivers (SPFRxs) located at the indexer of each Dish. The 1PPS signal defines the heartbeat of the telescope system and is used to timestamp the digitised, sampled received radio signals i.e the science data. This ‘heartbeat’ signal is traceable to the UTC and is transferred from the timescale located at the CPF to each Dish over fibre infrastructure by a White Rabbit (WR) time distribution system.

   The SAT MID System will ensure that the sampling of radio signals at each Dish is phase coherent across the whole MID Dish array. It will provide highly accurate time to each SPFRx RxPU and will supply time signals to the SKA MID Non Science Data Network for broadcasting to all SKA MID systems.

   The SAT LOW System maintains stable and accurate frequency and time standards for the telescope, distributing these time and frequency standards to each LOW Signal Processing Subsystem (SPS) Rack cabinet with high accuracy and stability. In particular the SAT LOW System produces a reference frequency that is used by each LOW Signal Processing Subsystem (SPS) to generate sampler clocks for the analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) inside the LFAA Tile Processing Module (TPM).

   The SAT LOW System produces reference standards such as 10MHz and 100MHz

  frequency reference signals and a 1PPS time reference signal synchronised to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). The 1PPS signal defines the heartbeat of the telescope system and is used to timestamp the received science data. The SAT LOW System will provide accurate time and stable and coherent reference frequency to each LFAA rack cabinet. It will also supply time signals to the SKA LOW Non Science Data Network for broadcasting to all SKA LOW systems.