Project description
Virtual Research Communities
The GISELA objective is to guarantee the long-term sustainability of the European – Latin American e-Infrastructure and thus ensure the continuity and enhancement of the Virtual Research Communities (VRC) using it. The project will focus on:\tImplementing the Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) sustainability model rooted on National Grid Initiatives (NGI) or Equivalent Domestic Grid Structures (EDGS), in association with CLARA and collaborating with EGI;\tProviding VRCs with the e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services required to improve the effectiveness of their research, addressing both:o\tCurrent EELA-2 small User Communities;o\tLarger VRCs through "Specialised Support Centres" (SSCs).The GISELA mission is twofold:- Ensure the sustainability of the EU-LA e-InfrastructureThe sustainability of the EU part of the e-Infrastructure being cared of by EGI, GISELA will concentrate on its LA component. The tasks, at each level of the e-Infrastructure are:\tInstitution: Get all Services fully operational in the Resource Centre (RC);\tCountry: Implement all Grid Operation Centre (GOC) Services;\tContinent: Implement all Grid & Network Support Centres (GSC, NSC) Services;\tSupport a catchall GOC.- Support Virtual Research CommunitiesThe support will encompass:\tUser Support:o\tProvide access to the EU-LA Infrastructure to VOs represented in GISELA (HEP, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, etc.);o\tPublicise and support the GISELA e-Infrastructure and Application Services;o\tCollaborate with VRCs or SSCs to the development of integrated services (e.g. gateways).\tTraining & Dissemination activitieso\tOrganisation of tutorials for single users and VRCs;o\tCoordinate dissemination actions, workshops, Conferences;o\tProduce dissemination material.Grid Services for VRCs will be provided by CLARA on the basis of a business plan using a Life Cycle Product Management (LCPM) approach.
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2
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28040 MADRID
Spain
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Participants (32)
C1414DRZ Buenos Aires
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21941 590 Rio De Janeiro
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58109 000 Campina Grande Pb
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7750268 Santiago
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Bogota Dc
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124000 LA HABANA
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010203 Cuenca
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75794 Paris
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34170 CASTELNAU LE LEZ
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75009 PARIS
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00044 Frascati
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06140 CUAUHTEMOC
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04510 CIUDAD DE MEXICO
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0843-03081 Panama
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41 LIMA
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4099-002 Porto
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11200 Montevideo
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11400 Montevideo
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5101 MERIDA
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20271 110 RIO DE JANEIRO
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. VALPARAISO
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Temuco
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Bucaramanga
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571 Bogota
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13284 Marseille
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75238 Paris
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13284 MARSEILLE
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22860 Ensenada
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64849 Monterrey Nuevo Leon
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07320 MEXICO DF
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83000 HERMOSILLO
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4704 553 Braga
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