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GEM released Five Requests for Proposals within the scope of its Risk Global Components, with target budgets ranging from from 300,000 – 900,000 €.
The RfPs cover the following topics: GEM Ontology & Taxonomy, Global Consequences Database, Global Exposure Database, Global Vulnerability Estimation Methods and Inventory Data Capture tools.
Deadline for proposals is 18 March 2010. Read more and download the separate RfP documents, a background document and the submission rules