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HEA issues call to 40 Irish Institutions under a new Research Programme (08 Jan. 2007)
Forty higher educations institutions are being invited by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to submit proposals following the Government’s announcement of a €190m investment in Cycle 4 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI). This is the largest number of institutions to be invited to participate in the PRTLI since its initiation in 1998. A call for proposals has been issued by the HEA and applicant institutions have until Friday 16 March 2007 to make their submissions. With respect to All-Island and International R&D, there will be specific encouragement of collaboration with higher education institutions in Northern Ireland. [| More details can be found here]
The HEA/Forfas Research Infrastructure Report (21 Dec. 2006)
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) and Forfás have undertaken an assessment of the research infrastructure in the higher-education sector in Ireland. The review, which was steered by an international group of experts, will be instrumental in the establishment of a needs package for the development of platform infrastructure(s) in the higher-education sector. [| The document can be download here from the HEA website]
The E.C. Infrastructures Work Programme 2007 - Final version (07 Dec. 2006)
The final version of the Infrastructures Work Programme 2007 has just been released.
A total of €9 billion injection to boost European ICT research (21 Nov. 2006)
[EU plans to invest over €9 billion in research on information and communications technologies (ICTs).] This is, by far, the largest single budget item in Europe’s 7th research framework programme that will run until 2013 – a priority set by the EU, acknowledging the importance of ICTs for Europe’s growth and competitiveness. To discuss the new research framework programme and the strategic priorities for fundamental and applied ICT research for the future, nearly 3500 members of the research community are gathering from 21 to 23 November in Helsinki for the “Information Society Technology 2006” conference and exhibition.
List of FP7 National Contact points for ireland (11 Nov. 2006)
Here is the new list of FP7 National Contact points for ireland.
Participation of e-INIS partners to EU initiatives (24 Oct. 2006)
Partners of e-INIS are currently actively participating to several EU initiatives. This includes
- in e-Infrastructure
- SIRENE (Sharing e-Infrastructure REsources iN Europe), a collaboration between 12 small and medium size European countries to share and try to inter-operate e-Infrastructure resources.
- in HPC
- [HET (High Performance in Europe Task Force)] is formed by representatives of 11 European countries interested in shaping the European High Performance Computing Infrastructure. Presently HET is setting the framework of a European policy in the area of High Performance Computing. HET reports to the countries represented in the present Taskforce and to the e-IRG. The European Commission is favorably looking at the work already done by the group.
- discussions with large consortia such as DEISA, HPC-Europa
- in Grid technology
- EGEE 2, EGI, HealthGrid, JETSET, Interactive European Grid, Datagrid, Crossgrid,..
- in Networking
- GEANT2, ANT2, EUMED, ALICE, TEIN2, Canarie and Internet 2
ICHEC workshop entitled Towards a Coherent HPC Ecosystem: A National Debate (20 Oct. 2006)
One partner of e-INIS, namely the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), supported by the Royal Irish Academy has organised a seminar entitled "Towards a Coherent HPC Ecosystem". This seminar has taken place on Friday the 20th of October 2006 at the Academy House, Dawson Street in Dublin. International speakers included Professor Martyn Guest along with Dr. Christine Kitchen from Daresbury Laboratory in the UK and Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley from the Swiss National Supercomputer Centre (CSCS). [More detail on the following website.]
ESFRI-roadmap - Final version (19 Oct. 2006)
ESFRI (the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) has just issued " the first European roadmap for new, large-scale Research Infrastructures", based on an international peer-review. The ESFRI Roadmap is the result of an intensive two-year consultation and peer review process involving over 1000 high level European and international experts. As far as e-INIS is concerned, the Roadmap identifies 35 large scale infrastructure projects, at various stages of development, in seven key research areas including Computation and data Treatment, and covers projects such as high power computing services. More information available about this European initiative on the "ESFRI website".
EU Capacities draft Work Programme (12 Oct. 2006)
The overall objective of the Research Infrastructures part of the "Capacities" specific programme (2007-2013) is to optimise the use and development of the best research infrastructures existing in Europe, and to help to create in all fields of science and technology new research infrastructures of pan-European interest needed by the European scientific community to remain at the forefront of the advancement of research, and able to help industry to strengthen its base of knowledge and its technological know how.
e-INIS participation to the Finish e-IRG workshop (4-5 Oct. 2006)
On Wednesday and Thursday October 4th and 5th 2006 there was an open workshop organised by the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group. The purpose of the e-IRG Workshop during Finland's Presidency was to update the current e-Infrastructures Roadmap and White Paper. The workshop was held in Keilaniemi, Finland. Dr. Thibaut Lery from Cosmogrid participated to the event. [more information on the following website].
Austrian e-IRG white-paper (Sept. 2006)
A new e-IRG White Paper has been produced during the Austrian Presidency of the European Union and the Austrian Chairship of the e-IRG. The issues discussed are (1) Authentication And Authorisation Policies, (2) Research Networking Policy Challenges for e-Infrastructures, (3) Incentives for Resource Provision in Scientific Grids, (4) Usage Policies, (5) Training and Education, (6) Grid Economy - Allocation and Accounting, (7) • Middleware Interoperability and Repositories, (8) User Support, (9) Supercomputing and Grid Harmonisation Policies, (10) Responsive Grids - Short Jobs and Policy Issues, (11) Legal Issues and finally (12) Integrated Data Management.
e-IRG Roadmap (Sept. 2006)
In the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) representatives from national science foundations of most European countries participate to develop a strategy for e-Infrastructures. The Group has recently published an "e-Infrastructures Roadmap" (early Sept. 2006) and a version of its regularly updated whitepaper. One of the goals of the Roadmap is to develop strategies to reach a "European Science Grid". It will tie together national and regional initiatives with addition of some pan-European glue. The Roadmap identifies goals for the networking infrastructure, middleware and organisations, resources and collaborative environments.
e-INIS: White paper on the Irish e-Infrastructure (Aug. 2006)
This White Paper was submitted to the HEA.
It is input to their review of research infrastructure, defined as follows: In the context of this review, research infrastructure is defined as ‘the tools that provide essential services to the research community for basic or applied research. They may concern the whole range of scientific and technological fields, from social sciences to astronomy, going through genomics or nanotechnologies. Examples include libraries, databases, biological archives, laboratories, clean rooms, communication networks, research vessels, satellite and aircraft observation facilities, coastal observatories, telescopes, synchrotrons, accelerators. They may be "single-sited", "distributed", or "virtual". What we are dealing with are the necessary tools for the future to do research in many areas at the cutting edge’.
Visit of the UK e-Infrastructure Policy Advisor to Dublin (July, 19 2006)
Dr Jennifer Schopf, presently e-Infrastructure Policy Advisor for the British "National e-Science Centre", has visited the e-INIS steering group and had fruitful discussions and advise based on her experience in UK (NeSC, JISC) and USA (TeraGrid).
e-INIS Strategy - work in progress (July 2006)
media:Strategy-options-draft.pdf media:Strategy-proposals-draft.pdf e-Infrastructures: A Roadmap for Irish research and development
e-INIS kickoff meeting (June 2006)
The initial meeting of the e-INIS interest group was held in Ireland on Monday 26th June 2006.
