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February

6 February 2007: Information Event on The first Calls for proposals under the e Infrastructures Activity of the 'Capacities' Specific Programme, FP7; Brussels, Belgium (European Commission premises); The European Commission, DG INFSO - Unit 'Research Infrastructure' is organising an information event in the context of the planned launch of the first calls for proposals under the e Infrastructures topic of the "Capacities" Specific Programme, Seventh Framework Programme.

January

29 January - 2 February 2007: The 19^th Open Grid Forum - OGF19; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research leading the global standardisation effort for grid computing. OGF's primary objectives are to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of 'best practices' - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines.

2006

December

1 December 2006: 19^th Meeting of ESFRI; Brussels, Belgium

The role of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) is to support a coherent approach to policy-making on researchinfrastructures in Europe, and to act as an incubator for international negotiations about concrete initiatives. In particular, ESFRI is preparing a European Roadmap for new research infrastructures of pan-European interest.

November

20 November 2006: Seventh e-IRG meeting; TBA; Every six months the eIRG members meet to discuss in depth on new common policies and will provide relevant recommendations on the shared use of electronic resources in Europe. This meeting will be held under the aegis of the Finnish Presidency.
20 November 2006: 3^rd Concertation meeting on e-Infrastructure - Specific theme: FP6-funded test-beds; Helsinki; This 3^rd event in the series of eInfrastructure Concertation activities is organised by the European Commission with the support of the project PANLAB project, and is bringing together the relevant projects in order to brainstorm on current and future joint activities. It is focussed more on network related issues and integration of those new actions in the existing e-Infrastructure concertation mechanism. The emphasis will be put on the Research Networking Testbeds supporting experimentally driven research, which have been a key element for European Research, in particular in the area of networking.

October

4-5 October 2006: Workshop on e-Infrastructures (eIRG); Keilaniemi, Espoo, (Finland); The Finish Presidency of the EU is organising an open workshop in the context of the e-Infrastructures policy initiative and the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG); the main purpose is to provide further input to the works of the e-IRG on the shared use of electronic resources in Europe (notably networking and computing ones) and to advance the discussions for the next version of the e-Infrastructures Roadmap for FP7.

September

28-29 September 2006: 18^th meeting of ESFRI; Brussels; The role of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) is to support a coherent approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and to act as an incubator for international negotiations about concrete initiatives. In particular, ESFRI is preparing a European Roadmap for new research infrastructures of pan-European interest.
25-29 September 2006: EGEE'06 Capitalising on e-Infrastructures; Geneva (Switzerland); The EGEE?06 conference is the major event of the EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) project where Grid user communities, decision makers, resource providers and developers will discuss how to capitalise on past investments and plan a sustainable future for the Grid. The EGEE?06 conference will be the focus point of a large number of grid projects featuring prominently in both plenary and parallel sessions during the 5 days of this event.
14 September 2006: Pisa, Italy; Workshop on the Future Internet; The workshop on the Future of the Internet is supported by IST projects (OneLab, Panlab, Evergrow, Haggle) and collocated with SIGCOM?06, one of the most important events for the leading scientific community on research in networking.
11-14 September 2006: The 18^th Global Grid Forum Meeting - GGF18; Washington, USA; The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. GGF's primary objectives are to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines.

July

6-7 July 2006: Paris, France; Intimate 2006 - Network Anomaly Diagnosis; The goal of the workshop is to bring together the world experts on Network Anomaly Diagnosis and offer them an environment to brainstorm for two consecutive days on the recent advanced made and what should be the next step. The workshop intends also to put together people from academia and industry to facilitate the transfer of a new research area to operational use. 2006 edition will be to discuss on the quite promising progress made in online network measurements and traffic analysis, network anomaly diagnosis has recently become a very hot topic. New approaches to anomaly detections have been developed.
3-6 July 2006: International Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing and Grids; High Performance Computing (HPC) is a key Information Technology attracting a great deal of attention in USA, Europe, Japan and other economically raising Asian countries as a fundamental tool for scientific research, industrial production and business decision making. The aim of the Workshop is to discuss the future developments in the HPC technologies, and to contribute to assess the main aspects of Grids, with special emphasis on solutions to grid computing deployment.

June

29-30 June 2006: ENPG Meeting; Brussels - Commission INFSO premises; Meeting of the European Network Policy Group (ENPG) - The Commission has the status of Observer. Representative: Wim Jansen. The ENPG brings together representatives of Ministries of Education/Research (Funding authorities) to discuss matters related to Research Networks.
28 June 2006: European IPv6 Task Force - Workshop Industry Focus; Paris, France; This event is organised by the European Task Force gathering all European national task forces. It will be the event to share experiences from EU countries in developing applications around IPv6. It will also be the occasion to investigate the drivers and enablers for IPv6 in Europe.
22-23 June 2006: The International Conference on IP+Optical Network (iPOP2006); Tokyo, Japan; The Photonic Internet Forum is the key institution in Japan for advanced research in optical communications.
21 June 2006: Teratec2006; Châtenay-Malabry (France); Teratec 2006 is the first National event organised by Ter@tec, an association of companies such as Bull, CEA, Snecma, HP, IFP, INT, University of Versailles, DISTENE, DASSAULT, CS, EDF, etc. CNRS recently became member this association. Ter@tec has a French European competence pole on high performance simulation, located south of Paris, close to the premises of CEA showing a great potential to be involved in future FP7 activities.
19-23 June 2006: EUSEA2006; Singapore; This international co-operation forum between Europe and Southeast Asia in the field of Information and Communication Technologies offers an open ICT co-operation platform for South East Asians and Europeans through business, regulatory and research co-operation.
19-20 June 2006: Seminar at Information and Communications University; Daejeon, Korea; The Seminar at the Information and Communications University will focus on eInfrastructures and how Korean and European scientists can jointly benefit from the new high speed links available now.
16-17 June 2006: 17th Meeting of ESFRI; Vienna, Austria; The role of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) is to support a coherent approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and to act as an incubator for international negotiations about concrete initiatives. In particular, ESFRI is preparing a European Roadmap for new research infrastructures of pan-European interest.
The emphasis of the 17th meeting of ESFRI will be on the follow-up of the preparations of the Roadmap for the Research Infrastructures for FP7.
13 June 2006: Second GÉANT2 Technical Workshop; Cambridge, UK; Meeting of all key individuals involved in the GÉANT2, from the APMs (Access Port Managers) to those involved in the JRAs (Joint Research Activities), to exchange information and ideas on the project's technical developments. Key users and architectural designers will also be involved, giving an opportunity to carry discussions on vision and future initiatives.
13 June 2006: Preparation for FP7 for eInfrastructure (forthcoming Finnish Presidency); Helskinki, Finland; This meeting will focus on the preparations of the FP7-related actions, mainly in the context of EC e-Infrastructure plans and Finish relevant priorities, in view of the Finnish presidency (2nd semester of 2006).
8-9 June 2006: Workshop 'European Infrastructure for Repositories of Scientific Information'; Brussels, Belgium; The objective of the workshop is to discuss, among the key stakeholders, main issues related to further development of digital repositories of scientific information, to identify the activities to be implemented under the 7th Framework Programme and to provide input to other policy actions.
6-9 June 2006: ASEM High-Level Conference on Applications of ICT in Human Resources Development and Capacity Building; Halong, Vietnam; ASEM ICT Ministerial meeting (SOM, Senior Officials? Meeting) focussed on human resources and capacity building, with a particular emphasis on the achievements of TEIN2(Trans Euro-Asia Information Network) exercise and in preparing co-operation instruments to be endorsed by the ASEM ministers in Hanoi in December 2006.
5-6 June 2006: Sixth eIRG (eInfrastructures Reflection Group) Meeting; Vienna, Austria; Every six months the eIRG members meet to discuss in depth on new common policies and will provide relevant recommendations on the shared use of electronic resources in Europe. This meeting will be held under the aegis of the Austrian Presidency.
31 May - 2 June 2006: Convergence: New Opportunities for Accelerating the IPv6 Momentum + Workshop "Convergence and IPv6"; Vienna, Austria; This event builds on the IPv6 roadmap and will present results of a public consultation to be launched on the IPv6 developments, specific workshops with the public sector (including defence) and media sector and the preliminary output from a Commission's Study to be launch in the first half of 2006.

May

23-24 May 2006: The EARNEST Initial Workshop; Berlin, Germany; In the period from 1 March 2006 until 31 August 2007, and as part of the GN2 project, a Foresight Study will be carried out into the evolution of research and education networking in Europe. This initial workshop will discuss the future development of the research and education networks in Europe. Opinions will be heard about the expected requirements of researchers, teachers and other users, about new opportunities offered by technological developments and about organisational, managerial and policy issues.
15-19 May 2006: IFIP Networking 2006; Coimbra, Portugal; The main objectives of Networking 2006 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications.
15-18 May 2006: TERENA Networking Conference 2006 - Follow the User; Catania, Italy; The TERENA Networking Conference 2006 is the annual conference of the research and education networking community in Europe. At this event the networking community discusses the latest trends and developments. Increasingly the research community (e.g. universities), telecom labs and even ISPs are attending to learn about the achievements in the sector.
4-5 May 2006: Second DEISA Symposium; Bologna, Italy; This Symposium is part of a series that take place every year in April-May in different locations in Europe. The purpose is to maintain an annual DEISA event dedicated to the discussion of the scientific and strategic challenges in the area of High Performance Computing, and to assess the impact of the DEISA research infrastructure on computational science in Europe.
3-5 May 2006: IST-Africa 2006 Conference; Pretoria (South Africa); This conference will aim at identifying research cooperation opportunities with African organisations. Unit F3 will organise a pre-conference one day workshop on e-Infrastructures hosted by South Africa Government. Furthermore, in the context of the preparatory work to the future extension of GÉANT to Ubuntunet Research Networks, a meeting with Ubuntunet Alliance directors will take place.

April

28-29 April 2006: EU-LAC Ministerial Forum on the Information Society; Lisbon, Portugal; The Fourth European Union (EU) - Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Ministerial Forum on the Information Society will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 28-29 April 2005. This event will be organised by the European Commission and the Portuguese Government, with the support of AHCIET (as member of the @LIS International Stakeholder Network). This Forum will pursue the exchanges that took place at the forums held in April 2002 in Seville (Spain), in July 2003 in Lima (Peru), and in November 2004 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
27 April 2006: EGEE Industry Day; Paris, France; The EGEE Industry Day will be a unique platform for Industry to interact directly with the EGEE project, the biggest Grid infrastructure in Europe, and will bring together decision makers, research heads, policy makers and CTOs to learn how industrial applications can be deployed on EGEE.
26-28 April 2006: BalticGrid First All-Hands Meeting; Vilnius, Lithuania; The First BalticGrid All-Hands Meeting will bring together all those working on the project to discuss technical issues and work together. The conference will be accompanied with a Grid Tutorial and Grid Open Day for the wide public.
21 April 2006: 12th Meeting of the Research Infrastructures configuration of the Committee of the specific programme "Structuring the ERA"; Brussels, Belgium (Commission premises)
19 April 2006: Grnet South East Europe Regional Workshop; Atens, Greece; This meeting (organised by GR-NET) will tackle the topic of sustainable e-Infrastructures in the context of the preparations for FP7. The focus will be, in particular on a community initiative on that front that is called the ?European Grid Initiative? (EGI) and the particular prospective roles of the countries of South-East Europe in EGI.
10-11 April 2006: eIRG Events under the Austrian Presidency; Linz, Austria; The Austrian Presidency of the EU is organising a series of meetings and workshops in the context of the e-Infrastructures policy initiative:
- eIRG Delegates Meeting and "Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures" on the next version of the White Paper and on the e-Infrastructures Roadmap for FP7;
- brainstorming event "Future Knowledge Infrastructures - Scientific Repositories and content management over the grid"
organised by BELIEF, an eInfrastructures cluster project.
7 April 2006: Meeting with CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique); Bruyère-le-Chatel, France; This is an opportunity to visit Ter@tec and the site where the new CEA supercomputer is being installed, which is now reaching 40 Teraflops of experimental capacity.
6 April 2006: Meeting with Scientific Technical Publishers; Luxembourg, GD of Luxembourg (Commission INFSO/E premises); The objective of this meeting is to learn and listen to publishers? views of the main trends and developments in the Scientific Technical Medical and Scholarly publications market. These consultations with stakholders are important for the impact assessment exercise in support of the communication on Digital Repositories foreseen for the end of the year 2006.
6 April 2006: Meeting with OECD on Global Science Forum; Paris, France; In the continuity of the OECD workshop held in Sydney (?Grids and Basic Research Programmes?) in September 2005, this meeting will investigate possible future cooperation. It will also be an opportunity to meet with several OECD officials to address the aspects related Digital Repositories of Scientific Information.
5 April 2006: IPv6 Convergence - Media Stakeholders; Brussels, Belgium (Commission premises) (by invitation only); The European Commission (INFSO) has started an impact assessment exercise to analyse IPv6 deployment in Europe, in the context of the so-called convergence of Telecom and Media and the developments in other regions of the world. This consultation workshop aims to collect views from stakeholders from different markets with potential interest in this development.
4 April 2006: "The Future Internet"; Brussels, Belgium (Commission INFSO premises); Triggered by previous discussions with NSF and the OECD event in Paris, it is opportune for DG INFSO to deepen an internal reflection on a vision for ?a? Future Internet. Such reflection will be supported by the analysis of concrete initiatives that, spanning from research to validation in experimental facilities are designed to promote a faster development of new architectures and services for a new generation Internet. Such comparative analysis will greatly help to consolidate our own views and future initiatives. Relevant INFSO units were invited to take active part in a workshop that hopefully will constitute a very fruitful discussion and exchange of views on how to prepare an ambitious FP7 ICT.

March

29 March 2006: IPv6 in the Defence/Military sector; Brussels, Belgium (Commission INFSO premises); The purpose of this meeting is to understand how IPv6 convergence occurs in Europe?s Defence, which are the triggers and the hurdles in an open debate with Sector?s leading stakeholders.
28 March 2006: Towards long-term sustainability for European Grid infrastructures: an exchange of views between France, Spain, Portugal, CERN and the EU; Barcelona, Spain; This meeting will focus on sustainable e-Infrastructures in the context of the preparations for FP7, and more particularly on a community initiative on that front called the "European Grid Organisation" (EGO), which idea was put forward mid-2005.
23-24 March 2006: 16th Meeting of ESFRI; Brussels, Belgium; The role of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) is to support a coherent approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and to act as an incubator for international negotiations about concrete initiatives. In particular, ESFRI is preparing a European Roadmap for new research infrastructures of pan-European interest.
23 March 2006: Legal forms of research infrastructures of pan-European interest; Brussels, Belgium (Commission premises); To compile information about possible ways on how to organise international collaboration for new pan-European research infrastructures, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has taken the initiative to arrange a workshop on Legal forms of research infrastructures of pan-European interest. The outcome of the workshop should be of use to relevant stakeholders, saving them the considerable effort to assemble the information needed each time that a new project is contemplated.
21 March 2006: Workshop "High Performance Computing infrastructures in Europe: Preparing an agenda for FP7"; Brussels, Belgium (Commission premises); The workshop invites experts from both the academic and industrial sector to provide concrete recommendations to the preparation of the Work Programme on 'Capacities'. The recommendations should encompass: characterisation of a vision of what should be the European HPC landscape in the future; identification of the most adequate instruments and actions to implement such a vision; identification of concrete steps to co-ordinate and fund activities aiming at the development of this vision; identification of the research areas that need to be developed to fulfil this vision.
13-15 March 2006: OCCASION SILK Meeting; Tbilisi, Georgia; Meeting with the partners in the OCCASION and SILK project from the Caucasus and Central Asia and their European partners. Assessment of the status of the National Research and Education Networks in the region. Presentation of FP7.
8 March 2006: OECD - Workshop on the future of the internet; Paris, France; The OECD-ICCP workshop will bring together policy-makers, leading academics, private sector organisations and civil society organisations to discuss the trends shaping the future of the Internet, explore various approaches - technical, regulatory and economic and identify opportunities for international co-operation.
6-7 March 2006: ENPG Meeting; Copenhagen, Denmark; Meeting of the European Network Policy Group (ENPG) - The Commission has the status of Observer. Representative: Wim Jansen. The ENPG brings together representatives of Ministries of Education/Research (Funding authorities) to discuss matters related to Research Networks.
6-7 March 2006: Workshop on EC Support to Research and Education Networking in south-Eastern Africa - Extending the reach of GÉANT; Brussels, Belgium (by invitation only); The Commission has presented to the WSIS a strategy towards Africa that included the extension of the GÉANT reach to African regions other that Mediterranean/North Africa. Also, during the WSIS event in Tunis in November 2005, an important Memorandum of Understanding was signed between some Southern-Eastern African countries to help building a regional research network and interconnect it to GÉANT. This initiative, known as "UbuntuNet", constitutes the most advanced and solid basis upon which co-operation with southern and eastern African research networks can be built. In this context the Information Society and Media Directorate-General organise a workshop to plan future actions to support the establishment of research and education networks in Africa, the deployment of a regional network in southern and eastern Africa and its connectivity to GÉANT.
6 March 2006: Perspectives and Needs of Fusion Physics Modelling, Theory and support IT infrastructures; Brussels, Belgium (Commission premises - organised by DG RTD); This workshop will bring together expert from the fusion community, IT project experts and officials from the Commission's INFSO and RTD Directorates-General. In view of the strong demands in this domain that ITER will pose, it appears opportune to review co-operative arrangements and the requirements in terms of infrastructures necessary for the sharing of relevant facilities at European level. The workshop is designed to improve the flow of information between the experts associated to the development of ICT based infrastructures in Europe (known as e-Infrastructures) and fusion research communities; this will also assist in the reflection on future needs and planning of modelling activity in European fusion research.
5-10 March 2006: OFCNFOEC2006 - Linking the Science and Business of Optical Communications; Anaheim, California-USA; The Optical Fibre Communication Conference & Exposition and the National Fibre Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) is the world's most regarded conference on photonics and fibre based communications. In addition to the latest technical achievements the exhibition features the cutting edge technologies and equipment available on the market.
1-3 March 2006: TridentCom2006 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities; Barcelona, Spain; Tridentcom brings together all aspects related to experimental telecommunication infrastructures, creating a forum where telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, visions for the establishment of such infrastructures.

February

16-17 February 2006-02-14: 2nd Workshops on Scientific Cases for the European HPC Initiative; Cadarache (France); This is the second of two Workshops on Scientific Cases for the European HPC Initiative oragnised by the CEA and the Cadarache Research Centre (INSTN). At the first workshop (Barcelona, November 2005), scientific cases slides were produced, which have been consolidated into 5 thematic documents. The main purpose of this second workshop will be to identify key 'Grand Challenges' underpinning a European HPC infrastructure and the relationship between national and European projects. The workshop will also explore aspects of a business case for a European HPC project: scope, facilities, user support and access network and requirements for evaluation and management of the facilities.
13-16 February 2006: 16th Global Grid Forum Meeting; Athens (Greece); The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. GGF's primary objectives are to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines.
7-9 February 2006: 8th International Bielefeld Conference "Academic Library and Information Services: New Paradigms for the Digital Age"; Bielefeld (Germany); The Bielefeld Conference has proved to be one of the most attractive forums for library managers and senior staff from Europe and beyond. In 2006, at the 8th Bielefeld Conference, high profile speakers from nine countries include the university librarians of Cornell and Stanford as well as representatives from Google (Scholar) and Microsoft. The 8th International Bielefeld Conference has placed "Information Services" at the heart of its programme.
3-4 February 2006: Grids in Finance Workshop; Palermo (Italy); It is likely that in the next decades financial institutions will increasingly compete on the efficient allocation of computing power by maintaining the current high- security standards. Since the Grid helps dealing with computationally intensive problems with distributed data, this technology is best suited for supporting the coming challenges of financial institutions. In Europe, production grid infrastructures like the EGEE, provide a platform for the testing and the deployment in real-world environments of finance applications like those provided by the Italian Egrid project. In this context the area of finance represents a very interesting one for the e-Infrastructure. The Grid in Finance 2006 - Workshop is intended to be an international forum for researchers from academia and industry in the area of Grid - based applications in finance. Researchers from Europe and the world are expected to attend the event.

January

31 January 2006: European Grid Organisation Workshop; Geneva (Switzerland); This workshop aims at identifying new ways of providing Grid services in Europe. This new scheme involves the creation of a new organisation (called EGO) that could co-ordinate Grid-infrastructure service provisioning centres in Europe. This scheme could be based on the role that DANTE plays for Research Networks. Around twenty participants coming basically from the project EGEE are expected to take part in this workshop organised by CERN.

2005

June

23-24 June 2005: Workshop on Digital Libraries Deployment; Brussels (Commission premises)
17 June 2005: ENPG Meeting; Bratislava, Slovakia; Meeting of the European Network Policy Group (ENPG) - The Commission has the status of Observer. Representative: Wim Jansen. The ENPG brings together representatives of Ministries of Education/Research (Funding authorities) to discuss matters related to Research Networks.
14 June 2005: Launch Event GN2; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; GÉANT2 is the seventh generation of pan-European research and education network, successor to the pan-European multi-gigabit research network GÉANT. The project within which the network is funded began officially on 1 September 2004, and will run for four years.
13 June 2005: eIRG (eInfrastructures Reflection Group) Meeting; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Every six months the eIRG members meet to discuss in depth on new common policies and will provide relevant recommendations on the shared use of electronic resources in Europe. This meeting will be held under the aegis of the Luxembourg Presidency. Key input for the works of the e-IRG will be the new white paper from the Support Team and the conclusions of the eInfrastructures policy workshop held one month before in Amsterdam.
6 June 2005: TERENA Networking Conference 2005; Poznan, Poland; TERENA Networking Conferences are prominent annual events, offering an opportunity to present and discuss technical and strategic aspects of the provision of networks and services to the research and education community, and the corresponding research and development activities. They bring together leading figures from the research networking community in Europe and provide a unique opportunity to learn about the latest developments and plans.
The theme of this year's conference is: "The World of Pervasive Networking". "Pervasive networking" refers to the next-generation networking environment where information and communication technology is available everywhere, for everyone, at any time and for a wide range of applications.

May

26 May 2005: Information Event (Calls: Infrastructures-7 and IST5); Brussels, Belgium
13 May 2005: eIRG (eInfrastructures Reflection Group) - Workshop on e-Infrastructures; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; This open workshop of the eInfrastructures policy initiative will be held in Amsterdam. The e-Infrastructures Workshop consists of a plenary meeting (to set the context for the whole workshop), a real workshop part (where subjects are discussed in more depth in smaller groups) and a final plenary (where the results from the parallel sessions are summarised).
10 May 2005: GARR Conference_05 "Le rete daPERtutto" (the ubiquitous network); Pisa, Italy; The GARR ("Gestione Amplimento Rete Ricerca" - the Academic and Scientific Research Community in Italy) Conference_05 is directed to all Network users and invites them to explore, through the presentation of national and international researches and achievements, the network evolution and the new possibilities that it will bring to the research and culture world. The conference will discuss strategies on how to extend the innovation to use areas so far only partially reached by the benefits of the network. The Educational sector is a key example. An IPv6 event in collaboration with 6NET will take place during the Conference.
09 May 2005: DEISA Symposium "Perspectives in High Performance Computing"; Paris, France; This Symposium is the first of a series that will take place every year in April - May in different locations in Europe. The purpose is to maintain an annual DEISA event dedicated to the discussion of the scientific and strategic challenges in the area of High Performance Computing, and to assess the impact of the DEISA research infrastructure on computational science in Europe. The first Symposium to be held in Paris will also include the formal inauguration of the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications - DEISA.

April

19 April 2005: 3rd Meeting of the National Contact Points (NCPs) for Research Infrastructures; Brussels, Belgium
19 April 2005: 8th Meeting of the Research Infrastructures configuration of the Committee of the specific programme "Structuring the ERA"; Brussels, Belgium
18 April 2005: EGEE 3rd Conference; Athens, Greece; The Third EGEE conference is one of the core EGEE events that is taking place over the lifespan of the project. It marks the halfway point in the 2 year project, since its initialisation in April 2004. As such, it comes at a crucial time for all members of the project. It will be a chance for the Project Team to take stock of their significant achievements to date, not least the recent success at the EU review, and a great opportunity to look forward to the next phase of the project. The conference will be a workshop based event, where many members from various EC Research Infrastructure Grid projects will participate to discuss key issues and work together to overcome known problems, to relay solutions and to discuss the potential problem areas within the Project.
11 April 2005: "Research Networking: Where do we go next?"; Brussels, Belgium
05 April 2005: The 22nd NORDUnet Networking Conference - Extending the frontiers of networking; Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway; The NORDUnet 2005 conference will allow for a closer collaboration between scientists in the highly dynamic area of research networking, resulting in an increased usage of eInfrastructures and enabling the participating researchers to advance to new levels of collaboration and science in Europe (and beyond). An exchange of views with international actors in the sector (industry and research) will give vital feed-back to the process of forthcoming Calls and in establishing the area of eInfrastructures in FP7. Dissemination of information on FP6 in general, IST and research infrastructures in particular could stimulate this user community to seek further collaboration.

March

18 March 2005: eIRG (eInfrastructures Reflection Group) Meeting; The Hague, The Netherlands; This additional meeting of the e-IRG will discuss the Roadmap for eInfrastructures in FP7. The eIRG was asked by the European Commission at the last meeting in The Hague to produce a roadmap for the European Grid, Supercomputing and Networking Infrastructure, along the lines of the ESFRI activities. The meeting will be held from 9.30 to 17.00 at the headquarters of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

February

25 February 2005: Inauguracíon Salas Access Grid; Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14 February 2005: ENPG Meeting; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Meeting of the European Network Policy Group (ENPG) - The Commission has the status of Observer. Representative: Wim Jansen. The ENPG brings together representatives of Ministries of Education/Research (Funding authorities) to discuss matters related to Research Networks.

2004

December

3 December 2004: 7th Meeting of the Research Infrastructures configuration of the Committee of the specific programme "Structuring the ERA"; Brussels, Belgium

November

23-26 November 2004: Conferences of four large FP6 Grid projects (EGEE, DEISA, DILIGENT, SEE-GRID); The Hague, The Netherlands
22-23 November 2004: Grid Summit; The Hague, The Netherlands; This event is an EU Grid infrastructure concertation event. This is the first joint meeting of the various grid infrastructure projects, to stimulate cooperation and knowledge exchange between participants. This is a public event for all people interested in grids and e-Infrastructure. Presentations by eminent speakers such as Mark Linesch (the new GGF Chair), Prof. T. Sato (director General of the Earth Simulator, the worlds fastest computer), the Dutch minister of education, culture and science Maria van der Hoeven and representatives from EGEE, DEISA, SEE-GRID and DILIGENT.
19 November 2004: eIRG Meeting; The Hague, The Netherlands; The eIRG is composed by Ministerial Representatives from the Member States. The main objective of the eIRG is to support on the political, advisory and monitoring level, the creation of a policy and administrative framework for the easy and cost-effective shared use of electronic resources in Europe (focusing on Grid-computing, data storage, and networking resources) across technological, administrative and national domains. This is the third meeting of the eIRG. The day before the eIRG meeting, an open workshop will take place, aiming at opening the debate to projects, individuals and international organisations interested in the topic of research infrastructures and sharing resources amongst different administrative and organisational domains.
18-26 November 2004: European leadership in e-science and grids; A series of events organised under the aegis of the Dutch Presidency in close co-operation with the EC DG INFSO and EGEE.
18 November 2004: Workshop eInfrastructures; The Hague, The Netherlands; The next workshop on the eInfrastructures initiative will consist of a plenary meeting (to set the context for the whole workshop), a real workshop part (where subjects are discussed in more depth in smaller groups) and a final plenary (where the results from the parallel sessions are summarised).

September

20-23 September 2004: 12th Global Grid Forum Meeting; Brussels, Belgium; The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. GGF's primary objectives are to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines. The Brussels meeting will be an open event.
10 September 2004: 6th Meeting of the Research Infrastructures Configuration of the Programme Committee of the Specific Programme "Structuring the ERA"; Brussels, Belgium

January

15 January 2004: Global IPv6 Service Launch Event; Brussels, Belgium; Global IPv6 Service Launch Event is an event, commonly organised by the EC DG INFSO and various projects (in the area of IPv6, GEANT), with the support of entities such as IPv6 Forum. The event celebrates the launching of a global IPv6 service for the Research Communities. The Global IPv6 Service Launch Event also highlights the achievements of the various R&D groups world-wide on IPv6 and their findings and experiences on rolling-out operational IPv6 applications and services. The event also features the achievements of industry in the area of IPv6. Participation of senior representatives of industry and Research initiatives is expected.
14 January 2004: IPv6 Task Force; Brussels, Belgium; Meeting of the Industry-led IPv6 Task Force. Unit F3 has the project IPv6 TF/SC that supports the work of the Task Force.

2003

December

9 December 2003: eInfrastructures (Internet and Grids) - The new foundation for knowledge-based Societies; Rome, Italy; Following an event which took place earlier this year under the Greek Presidency of the EU addressing the issue of harmonisation of policies on the access and use of IT-infrastructures for Research in Europe (networking, computing, data storage etc), the Italian Presidency in collaboration with the European Commission (DG INFSO/F) is organising this new event to progress discussions on the above topic. Part of the activity during the event will also be the definition of a high-level committee of representatives from Networking and Grid national authorities in Europe (eInfrastructure Reflection Group). This group will aim at monitoring and supporting on a policy advisory level the creation and use of the eInfrastructure in Europe, as well as the strengthening of relations with the US Cyber-Infrastructure and other similar initiatives around the world. Participation in the event is by invitation only and it is expected to be attended by about 100 European, American and possibly Japanese experts in the field. EC participants : L. Rodriguez-Rosello, M. Campolargo and K. Baxevanidis.

November

21 November 2003: Conference on Research Infrastructures; Trieste, Italy; Conference organised by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in the context of the Italian Presidency. The objective is to encourage the deployment of Research Infrastructures in the various scientific fields and to take stock of recent advances. GEANT and Grids infrastructures will play a relevant role. The ESFRI is an advisory committee created one year ago to advise the Member States and the Commission on topics related to Research Infrastructures. The Commission provides a secretariat function to this forum. Both DG RTD and INFSO attend regularly the meetings of this forum. Mario Campolargo and Antonella Karlson are following the ESFRI from the DG INFSO side.
9 November 2003: Evaluation of the FP6-2003-IST-2 - Research Networking Testbeds; Call 2 of the IST priority; IST-2002-2.3.5 Research Networking Test beds; Identifier: [FP6-2003-IST-2]; Publication date: 17 June 2003; Closing Date: 15 October 2003

October

23 October 2003: 20th General Assembly of TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association); Meeting of the directors of the national research networks that are share-holders of TERENA to review the achievements and plan of activity of TERENA. The European Commission participates as an observer to the General Assembly (Mr Fabianek).
7 October 2003: Evaluation of the FP6-2003-Infrastructures-3-CND/GEANT; Research Infrastructures; Communication Network Development - Geant; Identifier: [FP6-2003-Infrastructures-3]; Publication date: 06 June 2003; Closing Date: 2 October 2003
5 October 2003: 9th Global Grid Forum Meeting, GGF9; Meeting of the GGF. Since its foundation as a global forum in March 2001, the Global Grid Forum established itself as one of the main bodies that are largely defining the next generation of the internet and web-technologies and services. The forum devotes particular attention to the linking between Grid- and contemporary web-technologies as well as in Open Service Architecture schemes for Grid-services. Participation of DG INFSO/F3 representative promotes the participation of European organisations in the works and decisions of the Forum and the governance of the body. The closer links between the EU eInfrastructure and the US Cyberinfrastructure initiative is in the agenda. K. Baxevanidis, member of the GGF Advisory Board, will participate in the event.

September

25 September 2003: E-Science: the technical infrastructures; This conference is organised by industry and the journal "Wisenschaftsmanagement" in collaboration with Lemmers Konferenzen in Germany and sponsored by T-Systems Solutions for Research GmbH. Around 60 representatives of higher education and research, industry and politics are expected to participate. One of the main objectives of the Conference is to encourage debate among the public, beyond the circles of experts, on new forms of doing science. It also attempts to foster a more intense relation between science and society. Full scale collaboration among European researchers and the provision of electronic access resources distributed all over Europe are key issues both to the event and at the core of the EC Research Infrastructure actions. K. Baxevanidis will address the conference with a presentation entitled "Grid Initiatives: the EU eInfrastructure".
7 September 2003: Advanced Networking Workshop "Policy issues for NRENs in South East Europe"; This event is organised by CEENet (Central and Eastern European Networking Association), TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association), SEEREN (South-East European Research and Education Networking - IST Project) with support from the NATO Science Programme and hosted by the ICT Development Agency of Bulgaria. The workshop aims to establish a dialogue at the level of policy developments for research and education networking and to provide inputs to the agenda of national governments and funding bodies in South East Europe, by raising awareness about the role of NRENs and their contribution to research and education, as well as their importance for a country economy. B. Fabianek attends on behalf of acting Director L. Rodriguez-Rosello.

July

15 July 2003: Research Networking testbeds Information Day; "Research Networking Testbeds Information Day" is a public event aimed at bringing together the major players from all over Europe who have an interest in integrating and validating, in the context of user-driven large scale testbeds, the state-of-the-art networking technology that is essential for preparing the future upgrades in the information and communication infrastructure deployed across Europe.
14 July 2003: Meeting to discuss potential cross-programme actions related to: Security in Networking Technologies; Owing to the increasing requirements for secure networks and data systems, the European Commission is organising a half-day meeting to address the need for cross-programme actions to provide research into new paradigms for end-to-end data and network security and privacy.

June

12 June 2003: Workshop: Towards integrated Networking and Grids infrastructures for eScience and beyond - The EU eInfrastructures initiative; Athens, Greece

March

26 March 2003: Workshop: Interconnecting Heterogeneous Wireless Testbeds; Brussels, Belgium
25 March 2003: The INFORMATION DAY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES FP6-2002-Infrastructures-2 - Grids; Brussels, Belgium
24 March 2003: Meeting between the European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs); Brussels, Belgium

February

13-14 February 2003: The First European Across Grids Conference; Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2002

October

28-30 October 2002: Where are we with IPv6; Paris, France; Conference organized by RENATER in Paris.; The Global GRID Forum
3-4 October 2002: GRID workshop; Brussels, Belgium

May

21-22 May 2002: Global Research Networking Summit and GEANT Commissioning Event; Brussels, Belgium

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