Project description Data infrastructures for e-Science Show the project objective Hide the project objective Information and Communication Technologies have an unprecedented potential to improve the responsiveness of governments to the needs of citizens and have long been recognized as a key strategic tool to enable reforms in the public sector. During the last years, this potential of ICT has started to be dealt with in a multi-disciplinary way, giving birth to new research communities dealing with governance and policy modelling, modelling and simulation of complex systems, public administration information systems, open governance and social media. However, this potential is to this day non-systematically exploited, as there are significant barriers that hinder the effective exploration, management and distribution of the vast amounts of available public sector data towards the research communities.The main goal of ENGAGE project is the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation, semantic annotation and visualisation tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and governance-related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. The ENGAGE consortium comprises of 9 partners from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, with an excellent track record both in the eInfrastructures and the Governance domain (NTUA, FOKUS, STFC, Uni. Aegean, TU DELFT) including world-leaders in cloud infrastructures (IBM, Microsoft and INTRASOFT International) and a large network of scientific data diffusion (EUROCris).Following on Open Data initiatives throughout Europe, ENGAGE has established links with numerous National and International public sector organisations, research communities, open data experts and standardisation fora. The proposal is supported by the Greek NREN and NGI node GRNET, providing the infrastructure for service provision. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancesocial sciencespolitical sciencespublic administration Programme(s) FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research infrastructures Topic(s) INFRA-2011-1.2.2. - Data infrastructures for e-Science Call for proposal FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CPCSA - Combined Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Action Coordinator ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION EU contribution € 366 714,00 Address HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU CAMPUS 157 80 ATHINA Greece See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Georgia Mertzelou (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV Germany EU contribution € 273 966,00 Address HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Diana Polewka (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ELLINIKO KENTRO KENOTOMIAS MICROSOFT AE Greece EU contribution € 204 697,00 Address VASSILISSIS SOPHIAS AVENUE 103 AND HATZIKOSTA STREET 1 11521 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Fotis Draganidis (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU Greece EU contribution € 244 888,00 Address LOFOS PANEPISTIMIOU 81100 Mytilini See on map Region Νησιά Αιγαίου Βόρειο Αιγαίο Λέσβος Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Dimiris - Eduardos Gardikis (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD Israel EU contribution € 272 189,00 Address 94 DERECH EM-HAMOSHAVOT 49527 Petach Tikva See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Guy Avzirov (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT SA Luxembourg EU contribution € 288 077,00 Address RUE NICOLAS BOVE 2B 1253 Luxembourg See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact ANTONIOS RAMFOS (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VERENIGING EUROCRIS Netherlands EU contribution € 139 869,00 Address HEYENDAALSEWEG 141 6525 AJ Nijmegen See on map Region Oost-Nederland Gelderland Arnhem/Nijmegen Activity type Other Administrative Contact Harrie Lalieu (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Netherlands EU contribution € 218 685,00 Address STEVINWEG 1 2628 CN Delft See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Delft en Westland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Marijn Janssen (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL United Kingdom EU contribution € 240 915,00 Address Polaris House North Star Avenue SN2 1SZ SWINDON See on map Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Keith Jeffery (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data