<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">RoCKIn Competition 2015 Intention to Participate deadline is this Sunday, 31 May -<br class="">apply here: <a href="http://rockincompetition.eu/apply" class="">http://rockincompetition.eu/apply</a></b><br class=""><br class="">RoCKIn is short for “Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive <br class="">Systems and Robotics” and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aiming <br class="">at the promotion of research and education in Robotics through <br class="">competitions (<a href="http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu" class="">http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu</a>).<br class=""><br class="">The RoCKIn Competition 2015 will take place in November 19-23, 2015 in Lisboa,<br class="">Portugal (<a href="http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/rockin2015.php" class="">http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/rockin2015.php</a>). <br class=""><br class="">Travel support is available for most of the qualified teams. <br class=""><br class="">Test beds in Lisbon and Bonn can be visited by teams willing to test and benchmark their systems before the competition.<br class=""><br class="">Teams can participate in tasks (optional) and/or functionalities only (mandatory).<br class=""><br class="">All the details are provided in RoCKIn web page <a href="http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu" class="">http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu</a>.<br class=""><br class="">The important dates for the application (2 steps), qualification and registration<br class="">process regarding the RoCKIn Competition 2015 are:<br class=""><br class="">Schedule<br class="">- Intention to participate:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>31 May 2015<br class="">- Application deadline: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>31 August 2015<br class="">- Decision on Qualified Teams: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>08 September 2015<br class="">- Registration open: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>09-30 September 2015 (for the qualified teams only)<br class=""><br class="">All teams interested to participate in RoCKIn Competition 2015 should declare first their intention to participate (until 31 May 2015)<br class="">following the instructions in<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://rockincompetition.eu/apply" class="">http://rockincompetition.eu/apply</a><br class=""><br class="">After that, the team leader will receive an email granting authorization to his / her application account which requires inputting the following items (until 31 August 2015):<br class=""><br class="">1. Team name and affiliation<br class="">2. Number of team members, with status (e.g., professor, post-doc, PhD student, MSc student, CEO, CFO, chief-engineer)<br class="">3. Challenge where the team will participate [ RoCKIn@Home and RoCKIn@Work ]<br class="">4. Six-pages two-column Team Description Paper (TDP).<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>