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2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 
OpenAIREplus will build a 2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure by significantly expanding in several directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System, OpenAIREplus will “develop an open access, participatory infrastructure for scientific information”. Deposited articles and data will be openly accessible through an enhanced version of the OpenAIRE portal, together with any available relevant information on associated project funding and usage statistics.

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

CERN Contact: Tim Smith

EU funding: 4.2 M€ over 30 months

1 December 2011 - 31 May 2014

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
OpenAIRE will deliver the e-Infrastructure to power the Open Access pilot of the European Commission. This will consist of an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanism for the identification, deposition, access and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles, where the main supporting mechanism will be the establishment and operation of the European Helpdesk System. Additionally the project will offer a special repository for articles that can be stored neither in institutional nor in subject-based/thematic repositories.

Coordinator: NKUA, Greece

CERN Contact: Tim Smith, Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 4.16 M€ over 3 years

1 December 2009 - 30 November 2012

ORCID and DATACITE Interoperability Network 
ODIN is designing an “awareness layer” for persistent author and object identifiers, thereby reducing technical, cultural and logistical barriers to the accessibility, attribution and trust of data. “Data as infrastructure” is a critical concept for a fully-integrated European Research Area (ERA) to drive innovation forward as envisaged by the Digital Agenda for Europe.

Coordinator: The British Library, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 0.76 M€ over 2 years

1 September 2012 - 31 August 2014

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 0.7 M€ over 2 years

1 November 2010 - 31 October 2012

European Grid Initiative - Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
EGI-InSPIRE continues the transition to a sustainable pan-European e-Infrastructure started in EGEE-III. It sustains support for Grids of high-performance and high-throughput computing resources, while seeking to integrate new Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) (Clouds, SuperComputing, Desktop Grids, etc.), as required by the European user community.

Coordinator: egi.eu, Netherlands

CERN Contact: Jamie Shiers

EU funding: 25 M€ over 4 years

1 May 2010 - 30 April 2014

Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources 
The iMarine project plans to launch an initiative aimed at establishing and operating an e-infrastructure supporting the principles of the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. iMarine has three main objectives: (i) the establishment of an iMarine Board, formed by representatives of international organisations involved in this domain, which will define a sustainability-driven data-centric e-infrastructure governance model and organizational and technological policy recommendations; (ii) the management and operation of this e-Infrastructure offering user-level and application-level services that support the recommended policies and provide relevant functionality to the stakeholders; (iii) the extension, adaptation and deployment of a rich set of software components that implement these services.

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contact: Andrea Manzi

EU funding: 5 M€ over 30 months

1 November 2011 - 30 April 2014

Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud 
The HELIX NEBULA Project is a preliminary step towards a European cloud-based scientific e-infrastructure: HELIX NEBULA – the Science Cloud. These cloud-based services offer greater efficiency, agility and innovation in delivery of services through economies of scale, multiple tenancy of irregularly-used resources and more sophisticated approaches to resource management.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 1.8 M€ over 2 years
1 June 2012 - 30 May 2014

Grid Talk 
The impact of Grids has rapidly expanded beyond that which can be disseminated by individual projects. GridTalk will bring the success stories of Europe's e-Infrastructure to policy makers in government and business, to the broader scientific community, and to the general public, through articles and reports, the GridCafé website and the online newsletter international Science Grid This Week.

Coordinator: QMUL, United Kingdom

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 0.5 M€ over 28 months

1 May 2008 - 31 August 2010

EUropean DATa
EUDAT plans to deliver a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) with the capacity and capability for meeting future researchers’ needs in a sustainable way. Its design will reflect a comprehensive picture of the data service requirements of the research communities in Europe and beyond. This will become increasingly important over the next decade as we face the challenges of massive expansion in the volume of data being generated and preserved (the so-called ‘data tsunami’) and in the complexity of that data and the systems required to provide access to it.

Coordinator: CSC, Finland

CERN Contact: Ian Bird

EU funding: 9.3 M€ over 3 years

1 October 2011 - 30 September 2014

E-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software, Phase 2 
The major objectives of the ETICS II project are to improve the current ETICS services providing an integrated combination of new key technologies (IPv6, testbeds virtualization, test management and workflow tools, release management tools) and actively involve new communities, such as the aerospace engineering community and the High Performance Computing community through collaborations with key organizations and scientific research projects

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Alberto di Meglio

EU funding: 2.7 M€ over 2 years

1 March 2008 - 28 February 2010