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'Building Grids for Europe' brochure
Table of contents
- Welcome
- What is a Grid?
- Grids: Crucial technologies and applications for Europe
- Grid Expectations
- Emergency Response Grid
- The Health Grid
- Building Grids for Europe
- Towards a European Research Area for Grids
- Capitalising on EU Grid reseach
Towards a ‘European Research Area’ for Grids
Apart from the EU’s‘Information society technologies’ (IST) programme, several EU Member States fund Grid research at national and regional levels. Coordinating these activities across Europe would help pool Europe’s resources, creating a ‘critical mass’ of expertise which will strengthen European competitiveness in Grid research.
While EU funding for Grid research doubled to around EUR 125 million during FP6 (2002–06), national research funding will reach several hundred million euro during a similar period.
It is imperative that coordination of these programmes takes place to ensure that research teams in different countries pursuing similar goals do not run the risk of ‘reinventing the wheel’. Europe needs a 'European Research Area' (ERA) in Grids to ensure it gets the most out of the world-class resources spread across its 25 Member States.
Hence GridCoord, an FP6 project, has been established to support coordination of national Grid programmes and, therefore, to help create a European Research Area in Grids research.
- GridCoord information sheet (PDF, 131KB)