The activities of the project are carried out through five work packages and most partners are involved in two or more work packages. These five work packages are: Project Management (WP1), Secretariat (WP2), Policy Support (WP3), Policy Information Collection and Aggregation (WP4) and Dissemination and Communication (WP5). The distribution of efforts is depicted in Table 2: Distribution of Efforts per Work Package.
Work Package 1 - Project Management is responsible for an efficient project management and coordination of the overall project activities. The activities of WP1 include the coordination of the internal e-IRGSP5 activities and the liaison between e-IRGSP5 and the e-IRG Executive Board and the delegates.
The other activities of the support programme are largely defined by the needs of e-IRG.
Work Package 2 - Secretariat provides the project office to e-IRGSP5. WP2 has supported the e-IRG governing entities, the Chair and the Executive Board, and was involved in the organisation and conduction of e-IRG events (workshops and delegates meetings) under EU Council Presidencies of Malta and Estonia. WP2 prepared minutes and summary reports from these meetings for the delegates and the wider public. These documents are published on the e-IRG website. WP2 has also supported e-IRG in its reorientation phase.
Work Package 3 - Policy Support provides support to e-IRG’s Working Groups and Task Forces in the creation process of policy documents. During the reporting period the most notable outcome is the finalisation of two e-IRG documents which have been mainly produced with support of the preceding e-IRG Support Programme. These documents are the e-IRG Roadmap 2016 and the KPI document Evaluation of e-Infrastructures and the development of related Key Performance Indicators. In addition, e-IRGSP5 provided support to different e-IRG Working Groups and Task Forces, which will produce their outcome in the next reporting period and supported e-IRG in its reorientation phase.
Work Package 4 - Policy Information Collection and Aggregation builds on the outcome of the e-IRG Task Force on the evaluation of e-Infrastructures (see e-IRG document Evaluation of e-Infrastructures and the development of related Key Performance Indicators - KPIs), which provides a framework for the development of ontologies for the classification of performance metrics of e-Infrastructure projects. The work of WP4 included also a procedure to facilitate association, comparison and analysis of pertinent information. In this reporting period, the work package developed categorisation, metrics and correlation procedures, which provides the overall methodology and framework and will be used in the second reporting period to gather feedback from the various stakeholders.
Work Package 5 - Dissemination, Liaison and Communication disseminates the outcome of e-IRG over various channels. In the reporting period WP5 has provided e-Infrastructure related information to the stakeholders through the news blog on e-IRG’s web presence and via the e-IRG newsletter. WP5 has been very actively distributing information via its social media channels, including Twitter, LinkedIn and Vimeo. In particular, the production of videos with interviews with key persons from the area of e-Infrastructures, e-IRG delegates and stakeholders is very well accepted by the intended audience. Finally, WP5 maintains the e-IRG Knowledge Base, which provides a centralised information point on e-Infrastructures at the European and the national level.
