EUMEDGRID Support - Consortium of partners

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Consortium of partners

The EUMEDGRID-Support Consortium represents much more than the mere “sum” of its
members. It has been built on the successful experience of the EUMEDGRID project and contains
almost all the stakeholders of e-Infrastructures (both network and grid) in the area of the
Mediterranean. This will ensure the continuation of the best practices and policies developed by
EUMEDGRID.

The benefeciaries constitute a consortium made of 14 partners from several Mediterranean Countries:

7 are from Member States:

Cyprus: CYNET
France: CNRS-IDG
Italy: INFN, COMETA, GARR
Malta: University of Malta
United Kingdom: TRUST-IT

1 from Associated countries:

Turkey: TUBITAK-ULAKBIM

The others are from Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) as part of the list of International Co-operation Partner Countries (ICPC):

Algeria: CERIST
Egypt: EUN
Jordan: JUNet
Morocco: CNRST
Syria: HIAST
Tunisia: CCK

The Consortium is then mostly made up by Member States or Associated countries but a significant number of non-EU countries makes it well balanced and allows an almost total coverage of the geographical area. The partners were chosen among those originally forming the core of EUMEDGRID project and new ones which could bring added value to the EUMEDGRID-Support proposal and activities.

A description of each single partner will be made available shortly.

EUMEDGRID-Support Newsletter - OUT NOW

This edition of the newsletter sees a face-to-face interview with Federico Ruggieri, Co-ordinator of EUMEDGRID-Support; news on the New Africa Regional Operation Centre!; and a look at upcoming major events such as the EGI Technical Forum 2010 and ICT2010 where the project will play an important role.

The Mediterranean region is of strategic importance to the EU, in both economic (trade, energy, migration) and political (security, stability) terms.” In the economic domain, the area is still standing both fast demographic and labor force expansion, while a slow economic growth is resulting in high unemployment and stagnating incomes.

With the rapid advancement of technology in the world of science calls for a demand for more and more computing power. The implementation and co-ordination of a grid infrastructure at a national (or larger) level opens up important opportunities to optimise the usage of existing, limited storage and computing resources, improve their accessibility and empower research groups from several domains.

There is no need for e-Infrastructures without a user community correspondingly exploiting them. The project has an important responsibility to support existing user’s applications and assist new applications that will run on the Mediterranean e-Infrastructure. This activity is also committed to study and deliver a strategy for the long-term sustainability of the support system that will be put in place during the project lifetime.

Go to support

The EUMEDGRID-Support Training Programme is provided in synergy with the EPIKH project, EUMEDCONNECT2 and other initiatives to increase the awareness of e-Infrastructures across the region and educate user communities through dedicated training events. Collaboration opportunities are also available to engage the project through channels such the EUMEDGRID-Support Online Community and establishing agreements with Strategic e-Infrastructure Projects and Initiatives.

EUMEDGRID-Support offers the opportunity to become a Strategic Project where activities can be leveraged and experiences gained as well as increasing visibility. A few projects have already been established or are currently developing a work programme.

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