CERN Accelerating science

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

Baltic Grid Second Phase
The BalticGrid-II project is designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of services and users of the BalticGrid e-Infrastructure in the Baltic States. Baltic Grid II partners are from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Switzerland and Belarus.

Coordinator: KTH, Sweden

CERN Contact: Frédéric Hemmer, Florida Estrella

EU funding: 3 M€ over 2 years

1 May 2008 - 30 April 2010

Study of Open Access Publishing
The shift from print-based to digital documents demands innovation from scientific publishers. Several radical new Open Access Publishing (OAP) business models have already emerged. The SOAP consortium represents key stakeholders such as publishers, funding agencies and a broad spectrum of research disciplines and aims to study these models, survey researchers and suggest scenarios.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 0.9 M€ over 2 years

1 March 2009 - 28 February 2011

The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching 
The Pathway Supporting Action is bringing together experts in the field of science education research and technology enhanced science education, scientists and researchers involved in pioneering scientific experiments, teachers’ communities, policy makers and curriculum developers to promote the effective widespread use of inquiry and problem based science teaching techniques in primary and secondary schools in Europe and beyond.

Coordinator: UBT, Germany

CERN Contact: Markus Nordberg

EU funding: 3.4 M€ over 3 years

1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013