October 12, 2011

October 13, 2011

The next open e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) Workshop will be held on October 12-13, 2011 in Poznan, Poland. The workshop will be organized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the European Union.

The first day of the workshop will present political, financial and international aspects of e-Infrastructure in Europe. The main topics will be: Sustainable e-Infrastructure fostering international and multidisciplinary cooperation; Synergies between structural funds, EU and national funding; Polish feedback for sustainable and reliable local infrastructure.

On the second day the focus will be Technology aspects. Presentations about ESFRI requirements and Grand Challenges of different applications will be given as well as a session on Data Infrastructures with presentations from existing data related projects. After lunch a panel discussion will follow about how to integrate the data infrastructure with the existing grid and HPC infrastructures and a panel discussion about users and infrastructure providers demands vs. offers. Special attention will be put on the new EC approach to build a sustainable Data e-Infrastructure in Europe.

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