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There is a growing consensus on the fact that a coordinated approach towards Grid research in Europe and in the rest of the world is crucial for reaching a critical mass, creating the potential for a more visible impact at an international level, and influencing adoption in industry and business. This is particularly true with respect to the relations between Europe and some Asian countries (e.g. China, India, and South Korea) which have been intensified in recent years due to an impressive economic growth within these countries and their increasing importance in the world.
The Grid@Asia project which started in April 2005, intended to create the basis for developing a stable and sustainable collaboration between the European Union (EU), China and South Korea in Grid research and technologies. This collaboration has to be seen within a broader Information Society framework, aiming to promote the cooperation between European and Asian research teams. Moreover, this project is directed towards establishing the basis of a much larger scientific collaboration between Europe and Asia, through the creation of a human network in the area of Grids technologies, in order to overcome fragmentation and duplication of efforts, preparing a common coordination Grid research program which is capable of aligning the individual approaches.
Even among large organizations (national research centres, industry, etc.) such an alignment could create focus and coordination, making it easier to identify and realize synergies, thus offering the chance to share experience and learn from each other, to collaborate for mutual benefit and to sample some of the new technologies and research possibilities.
In the Grid arena, this collaboration is considered essential to ensure exploitation of interesting research results at a global level and to build Grid interoperable technology solutions. This will be of high value, not only for science, but also for the competitiveness of the European, Chinese and South Korean industry.
In this framework, Grid@Asia is a gateway towards future collaboration with these communities. This is the first step to realise a broader ambition to implement Grid technology worldwide through intensive technological cooperation, not only to promote EU expertise, but also to define international Grid standards by offering the means to reach consensus on critical global issues such as security, resource management, programmability, dependability, etc. Grid joint research projects are key ingredients to create better business conditions and improved market access for China, South Korea and the EU in information and communication technologies.
The main intent of Grid@Asia was not only to bring European Grid (projects and networks) more into the international limelight, but it was also to help to establish global Grid technologies, while promoting the joint European and Asian position on Grid technology. In order to carry out its program, Grid@Asia addressed the global scientific concerns shared by the international Grid community.
Important steps taken by Grid@Asia have been (i) the identification of the Chinese and South Korean key players in Grid research and technologies; (ii) organisation of focused workshops around EU/Asian research and industrial agendas; (iii) the establishment of sustainable cooperation and dissemination activities. The workshops organized in Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul focused on Grid research activities. They helped to establish contacts and exchange information between the European and Asian teams in the field, with a particular emphasis on concrete and exploitable Grid applications.
By strengthening the cooperation with the Grid community in China and South Korea, Grid@Asia has provided Europe with a clear vision of the Grid community in these important Asian countries. Through weaving additional links with leading Asian Grid research communities, Grid@Asia has supported long term international cooperation, especially by introducing Asian expertise to major European Grid initiatives (Networks of Excellence, Integrated Projects, STREPs etc) within the FP6 and the forthcoming FP7.
We are confident that Grid@Asia initiated cooperation on Grid technology between the EU and Asia and prepared the ground for collaborations with countries on similar initiatives, in order to promote the European Grid vision worldwide. A start has been made: several Chinese and Korean partners have recently become involved in joint projects branching out to Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Indonesia.
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