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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

e-ScienceTalk: Supporting Grid and High Performance Computing reporting across Europe
E-ScienceTalk will work with the EGI and other collaborating projects to expand the scope of the existing GridTalk outputs, to report on the interactions of grids with e-Infrastructures such as cloud computing and supercomputing, and will also explore options for the sustainability of e-ScienceTalk’s products.

Coordinator: egi.eu, Netherlands 

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 1.3 M€ over 33 months

1 September 2010 - 31 May 2013

EMI - European Middleware Initiative
EMI is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. It aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a sustainable model to maintain and evolve the middleware, fulfilling the requirements of the user communities.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Alberto Di Meglio

EU funding: 12.87 M€ over 3 years

1 May 2010 - 30 April 2013

European Grid Infrastructure Design Study
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study represents an effort to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA).

Coordinator: GUP, Austria

CERN Contact: Juergen Knobloch

EU funding: 2.5 M€ over 28 months

1 September 2007 - 30 December 2009

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Third Phase
In its third phase, the EGEE project will expand and optimise Europe's largest production Grid infrastructure, namely EGEE, by continuous operation of the infrastructure, support for more user communities, and addition of further computational and data resources. The project will also prepare the migration of the existing production European Grid from a project-based model to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National Grid Initiatives for multi-disciplinary use.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Bob Jones

EU funding: 32 M€ over 2 years

1 May 2008 - 30 April 2010

Data Infrastructures Ecosystem for Science
D4Science-II will develop technology to enable interoperation of diverse data e-Infrastructures, creating e-Infrastructure Ecosystems. Furthermore, D4Science-II will bring together several scientific e-Infrastructures established in the areas of biodiversity, fishery resource management, high energy physics, etc., to set up a prototypical instance of such an ecosystem. D4Science-II constitutes a continuation of the DILIGENT and D4Science projects.

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contacts: Tim Smith, Pedro Andrade, Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 4.3 M€ over 2 years

1 October 2009 - 30 September 2011

D4science will deploy, progressively consolidate and expand the e Infrastructures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT projects so that they address the needs of two major target disciplines (which have challenging differences but also interesting commonalities): Environmental Monitoring and Fishery Resources Management.

Coordinator: ERCIM, France

CERN Contact: Tim Smith, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 3.15 M€ over 2 years

1 January 2008 - 31 December 2009

Discover the COSMOS: e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom
This project aims to demonstrate innovative ways to involve teachers and students in eScience through the use of existing e-infrastructures in order to spark young people’s interest in science and in following scientific careers. It aims to support policy development by a) demonstrating effective community building between researchers, teachers and students and empowering the latter to use, share and exploit the collective power of unique scientific resources in meaningful educational activities that promote inquiry-based learning and appreciation of how science works, b) demonstrating effective integration of science education with e-infrastructures through a monitored-for-impact use of eScience activities and c) documenting the whole process through the development of a roadmap.

Coordinator: IASA, Greece

CERN Contact: Rolf Landua

EU funding: 0.9 M€ over 2 years

1 September 2011 - 31 August 2013