Objective
Over the last decade, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has built a distributed computing and data infrastructure to support over 21,000 researchers from many disciplines with unprecedented data analysis capabilities. EGI builds on the European and national investments and relies on the expertise of EGI.eu - a not-for-profit foundation that provides coordination to the EGI Community, including user groups, EGI.eu participants in the EGI Council, and the other collaborating partners.
The mission of EGI-Engage is to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision, where researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for their work. The Open Science Commons is grounded on three pillars: the e-Infrastructure Commons, an ecosystem of key services; the Open Data Commons, where any researcher can access, use and reuse data; and the Knowledge Commons, in which communities have shared ownership of knowledge and participate in the co-development of software and are technically supported to exploit state-of-the-art digital services.
EGI-Engage will expand the capabilities offered to scientists (e.g. improved cloud or data services) and the spectrum of its user base by engaging with large Research Infrastructures (RIs), the long-tail of science and industry/SMEs. The main engagement instrument will be a network of eight Competence Centres, where National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), user communities, technology and service providers will join forces to collect requirements, integrate community-specific applications into state-of-the-art services, foster interoperability across e-Infrastructures, and evolve services through a user-centric development model. The project will also coordinate the NGI efforts to support the long-tail of science by developing ad hoc access policies and by providing services and resources that will lower barriers and learning curves.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/biodiversity conservation
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/data science/data analysis
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/data science/data processing
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/data science/big data
- /social sciences/sociology/governance
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-EINFRA-2014-2
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1098 XG Amsterdam
Netherlands
Participants (39)
1010 Wien
8400 Oostende
1113 Sofia
3012 Bern
160 00 Praha 6
80686 Munchen
37077 Gottingen
28006 Madrid
02101 Espoo
75794 Paris
75007 Paris Cedex 07
11523 Athina
10000 Zagreb
1111 Budapest
00044 Frascati
50121 Firenze
25125 Brescia
00185 Roma
00144 Roma
1098XG Amsterdam
30-059 Krakow
3004 516 Coimbra
4051 401 Porto
751 05 Uppsala
845 07 Bratislava
06100 Ankara
SN2 1FL Swindon
8010 Graz
69117 Heidelberg
1211 Geneva 23
981 92 Kiruna
00153 Roma
15126 Marousi
74370 Argonay
47402 Bloomington
11528 Taipei
1101 Quezon City
40132 Bandung
43400 Selangor Darul Ehsan