e-IRGSP6 has provided secretarial services to the e-IRG and organised all e-IRG workshops and delegates meetings. Six e-IRG workshops have been implemented:
* The Romanian EU Presidency addressed various RDA activities, Swiss e-Infrastructure initiatives as well as ongoing EU initiatives on EOSC, Artificial Intelligence and EuroHPC.
* The Finnish EU Presidency focused on "e-Infrastructure for education and skills", "Artificial Intelligence as a cross-cutting theme" and "Cyber security in the e-Infrastructure context".
* The Croatian EU Presidency theme was “Grand Challenges of e-Infrastructures within the new ERA” and addressed "Future skills in the new European Research Area", "Empowering the e-Infrastructure partnerships in ERA" and "Making the data and services FAIR".
* The German EU Presidency concentrated on “e-Infrastructures in support of addressing societal challenges” and dealt with "Policies for the development of Research Data Infrastructures from different perspectives", "Digital Transformation and Public Health" and "Digitalisation and Green Deal".
* The Portuguese EU Presidency theme was “e-Infrastructures for Climate Change and Digital Transitions” and addressed "EOSC and data interoperability", "Addressing the climate change – the digital aspects", and provided an outlook discussion on technological, policy and socio-economic aspects of the long-term development of e-Infrastructures and "Going beyond: How policies can shape the development of research infrastructures facilitating data sovereignty, innovation and cultural change"
All e-IRG Workshops received very positive ratings. Since 2020 "communiqués" for all e-IRG Workshops have been created, summarising the outcomes of these workshops.
e-IRGSP6 has supported e-IRG’s policy-activities on the document "National Nodes - Getting organized; how far are we?" and the e-IRG White Paper 2021. e-IRGSP6 provided content and managed the document creation process. The White Paper 2021 addressed the topic of “Good practices of coordination within and across e-Infrastructures and thematic Research Infrastructures” providing good practices at institutional, national and regional levels. For both documents the input from the countries was analysed and summaries were provided. The e-IRG White Paper 2021 is to be published in November 2021.
e-IRGSP6 has provided support to create additional policy documents providing the delegates with information about the value and prospect of e-IRG: "Value of e-IRG and prospect" and "e-IRG mandate under Horizon Europe".
The Dissemination, Liaison and Communication (WP4) activities of e-IRGSP6 include the e-IRG web space, the e-IRG Knowledge Base, the publication of e-IRG Magazines to disseminate the outcomes of e-IRG, provide information about e-IRG delegates meetings and workshops, as well as information from other projects’ or initiatives’ events in the field of e-Infrastructures. The work progress and achievements of WP4 have continued normally until January 2021, when the project faced the tragic loss of its WP4 leader, which was a serious disruption in the project and in particular WP4.
Finally, liaison activities have been used both to benefit in the organisation of the e-IRG workshops (for the workshop programme liaising with all major e-Infrastructure projects and initiatives), to promote the e-IRG policy work (such as the liaison with ESFRI, RDA, LIBER, EOSC and others) and finally exchange information and disseminate the e-IRG outputs and communiqués.
