ENGAGE PROJECT KICK-OFF!
20 June 2011 - 21 June 2011
Austria
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The ENGAGE project held its kick-off workshop on Monday the 20th of June 2011, at the National Technical University of the Aegean (NTUA) in Athens, Greece, followed on the 21st of June by a project commencement meeting. The project’s full name is: “An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Data Provision Towards Research Communities and Citizens, for Open, Linked Government”, and the project acronym is ENGAGE.
The project objective is to optimize the use and development of the best research infrastructure in Europe, thereby supporting the objectives of the Capacities programme within the 7th Framework Programme (7FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD). The project emerges from a policy context of improved access to public sector data.
The main goal of the ENGAGE project is to release a services infrastructure allowing researchers, citizens and other stakeholders to have better access to public open data. ENGAGE will deploy and use an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector open 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, whilst empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. Starting in June 2011 the ENGAGE project will run for three years and will develop ten services allowing users to better access open public data.
ENGAGE WORSHOP
During the Kick-off workshop the participant from the European Commission presented the European Research Infrastructure, a topography of current initiatives in the field, and the current and emerging EU policy on research and public sector data.
The ENGAGE project coordinator (NTUA) and partners presented local sources of open data in: Greece, Israel, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and Germany. Approaches and techniques to data organisations (curation, storage and retrieval) were reviewed. The scientific conferences at which the project scientific results will be presented were discussed. The project will publish a call for scientific experts to join and support the ENGAGE initiative. Presentations from the ENGAGE Workshop on the 20th June are available for download from the project web site (http://www.engage-project.eu(opens in new window))
PARTNERS EXPERTISE
The ENGAGE project kick-off workshop and commencement meeting brought together the project partners from: Greece, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and The United Kingdom: each partner having a specialisation in e-Infrastructure, governance, technology development, cloud computing, and scientific data diffusion. The partners involved are:
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
The project seeks to involve a large group of stakeholder including public-sector actors, and the research community. To find out more about ENGAGE you can go to the project web site: http://www.engage-project.eu(opens in new window)
and to participate in the ENGAGE community join the Linkedin group: ENGAGE eInfrastructures Project on Open Data
The ENGAGE project is organizing an open workshop, targeting Open Governmental Data for science and society, in conjunction with the IFIP eGovernment Conference in Delft, the Netherlands, on 29th August 2011. You can find more information on the workshop at: http://bit.ly/lrpZ6K(opens in new window)
FUNDING
The ENGAGE project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP). The ENGAGE project is a combined collaboration and coordination and support action project of the 7th Framework Programme (7FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD). The organisations involved came together in response to the call FP7-INTRASTRUCTURES-2011-2. Research Infrastructure is part of the 7FP Capacities programme, and its objective is to optimize the use and development of the best research infrastructure in Europe.
Find more information on the e-Infrastructures programme at: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/(opens in new window)
DISCLAIMER
This document reflects only the author’s view. The EC is not liable for any use that may be made of this document.
The ENGAGE project held its kick-off workshop on Monday the 20th of June 2011, at the National Technical University of the Aegean (NTUA) in Athens, Greece, followed on the 21st of June by a project commencement meeting. The project’s full name is: “An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Data Provision Towards Research Communities and Citizens, for Open, Linked Government”, and the project acronym is ENGAGE.
The project objective is to optimize the use and development of the best research infrastructure in Europe, thereby supporting the objectives of the Capacities programme within the 7th Framework Programme (7FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD). The project emerges from a policy context of improved access to public sector data.
The main goal of the ENGAGE project is to release a services infrastructure allowing researchers, citizens and other stakeholders to have better access to public open data. ENGAGE will deploy and use an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector open 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, whilst empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. Starting in June 2011 the ENGAGE project will run for three years and will develop ten services allowing users to better access open public data.
ENGAGE WORSHOP
During the Kick-off workshop the participant from the European Commission presented the European Research Infrastructure, a topography of current initiatives in the field, and the current and emerging EU policy on research and public sector data.
The ENGAGE project coordinator (NTUA) and partners presented local sources of open data in: Greece, Israel, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and Germany. Approaches and techniques to data organisations (curation, storage and retrieval) were reviewed. The scientific conferences at which the project scientific results will be presented were discussed. The project will publish a call for scientific experts to join and support the ENGAGE initiative. Presentations from the ENGAGE Workshop on the 20th June are available for download from the project web site (http://www.engage-project.eu(opens in new window))
PARTNERS EXPERTISE
The ENGAGE project kick-off workshop and commencement meeting brought together the project partners from: Greece, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and The United Kingdom: each partner having a specialisation in e-Infrastructure, governance, technology development, cloud computing, and scientific data diffusion. The partners involved are:
- The National Technical University of Athens (the coordinator) (Greece),
- Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands),
- Elliniko Kentro Kenotomias Microsoft (Microsoft Innovation Centres Greece) (Greece),
- IBM Israel - Science and Technology Ltd, (Israel),
- INTRASOFT International (Luxembourg),
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (The United Kingdom)
- Fraunhofer FOKUS – Institute for Open Communication Systems (Germany),
- University of the Aegean-Research Unit (Greece),
- Vereniging Eurocris (The Netherlands).
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
The project seeks to involve a large group of stakeholder including public-sector actors, and the research community. To find out more about ENGAGE you can go to the project web site: http://www.engage-project.eu(opens in new window)
and to participate in the ENGAGE community join the Linkedin group: ENGAGE eInfrastructures Project on Open Data
The ENGAGE project is organizing an open workshop, targeting Open Governmental Data for science and society, in conjunction with the IFIP eGovernment Conference in Delft, the Netherlands, on 29th August 2011. You can find more information on the workshop at: http://bit.ly/lrpZ6K(opens in new window)
FUNDING
The ENGAGE project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP). The ENGAGE project is a combined collaboration and coordination and support action project of the 7th Framework Programme (7FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD). The organisations involved came together in response to the call FP7-INTRASTRUCTURES-2011-2. Research Infrastructure is part of the 7FP Capacities programme, and its objective is to optimize the use and development of the best research infrastructure in Europe.
Find more information on the e-Infrastructures programme at: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/(opens in new window)
DISCLAIMER
This document reflects only the author’s view. The EC is not liable for any use that may be made of this document.
Keywords
Research Infrastructure