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e-IRG Support Programme 4 (e-IRGSP4) (e-IRGSP4)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 4 (e-IRGSP4) intends to provide support for the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) and hereby supports the collaboration of national and pan-European e-Infrastructure initiatives and stakeholders. The e-IRG reflects on results and developments in the area of e-infrastructures. It consists of government appointed national representativ ...
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Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project proposal bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. FORGE will align FIRE with the ongoing education revolution for mutual benefit. In particular, this project is concerned with specifying development methodologies and best practices for offering FIRE experimentation facilities to learners and to the learning community in general, re ...
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Data Centres Optimization for Energy-Efficient and EnvironmentalLy Friendly INternet (DOLFIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

DOLFIN addresses the demand/response and energy stabilisation scenario of the Smart Grid by optimising the energy consumption of Data Centres (DC), accompanied, if necessary, with a respective negotiation and readjustment of the DC's Service Level Agreements (SLAs). To achieve this, DOLFIN adopts an innovative energy closed control loop that targets to deliver the following advancements:• Create a ...
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PRACE - Third Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-3IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

PRACE-3IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure (RI) created in April 2010. It continues, complements, and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP and -2IP projects.PRACE-3IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities and of industry to keep them at the forefront of discovery. Our vision is the formation of an int ...
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Improving skills for Smartfarming as an innovative tool for rural development and economic growth

End date: Apr 21, 2016,

The definitional context of “Superfoods” refers to foods with very high nutritional value defined by their antioxidant capacity and their overall health benefits. This group of superfoods consists of goji berry, blueberry, black chokeberry, hippophae, spiroulina, aloe vera and many other foods. The project has created a training programme, an e-platform and an e-book on marketing of superfoods. Th ...
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Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources (Open Discovery Space)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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Governments ENabled with IPv6 (GEN6)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

The pilot GEN6 will have 4 different national experiments (also called pilots), some of them replicated in a complementary way in different countries, considering different existing approaches with IPv4:1.\tIPv6 upgrade of eGovernment Network Infrastructures, e-Identification, Services and Applications (Germany, Spain, Netherlands and Turkey).2.\tIPv6 upgrade of Secure Cloud Services (Luxembourg). ...
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Coordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing (CHAIN-REDS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

CHAIN-REDS vision is to promote and support technological and scientific collaboration across different eInfrastructures established and operated in various continents, in order to facilitate their uptake and use by established and emerging Virtual Research Communities (VRCs) but also by single researchers, promoting instruments and practices that can facilitate their inclusion in the community of ...
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Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3plus)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge GÉANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the GÉANT service area.In the area of multi-domain network service operation, GN3plus plans to deliver fast, efficient provisioning of advanced services, develop operational support acro ...
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Linking European and Chinese Research Infrastructures and Communities (ORIENTplus)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Between 2007 and 2010 the ORIENT project provided the first high capacity link between GEANT and China with FP6 funding support and successfully enabled many innovative EU-China research and application collaborations to flourish. ORIENTplus addresses Section 3.4 domain (f) of the call ("International cooperation in Research and Education Networking addressing (i) the extension of the European in ...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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PRACE - Second Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-2IP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

PRACE-2IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure created in April 2010 as the result of the preparatory phase PRACE project. It complements and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP project that was started in July 2010.PRACE-2IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities to keep them at the forefront of discover ...
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e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 3 (e-IRGSP3)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 3 (e-IRGSP3) supports the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). The e-IRG reflects on results and developments in the area of e-infrastructures. It consists of government appointed national representatives and was created in 2003. The e-IRG has reached a high ranking position as an independent advisory body in Europe in its field. It coo ...
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low Energy COnsumption NETworks (ECONET)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Nowadays, it is widely recognised that the sole introduction of low consumption silicon elements will not be sufficient to effectively curb tomorrow's network energy requirements. Based on this assumption, the ECONET project will investigate, develop and test new capabilities for the Future Internet devices enabling the efficient management of power consumption so to strongly reduce the current en ...
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PRACE - First Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-1IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Large scale simulations are the third pillar of science today alongside theory and experiment. They produce scientific insights, technological advances, and solve problems in many fields of society. Their tools are high-end computers and effective software. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing, has been created as a not for profit association in May 2010 as a permanent pan-European High P ...
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Puzzled by Policy

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Many Governments today recognise that to deliver effective public policy they need to enhance citizen and community involvement in the policy making process. Unfortunately, many citizens and communities feel that policy development is a process that they do not understand and have little control over.Policy making can be seen by many as an elitist process, taking place only amongst government and ...
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Natural Europe: Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for Education (Natural Europe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

In an era where natural history and environmental education inadequacy in formal and informal contexts is becoming an increasingly challenging issue, harvesting the potential of European digital libraries appears as a very attractive option. However, an impressive abundance of high quality digital content that is available in Natural History Museums (NHMs) around Europe remains largely unexploited ...
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Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3) (GN3)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The objective of this proposal is the creation of a leading edge network supporting a much enhanced range of both network and added value services targeted at end-users across the GÉANT service area. A principal goal will be to create a portfolio of seamless multi-domain services. In contrast to its predecessor, GN2, much more emphasis is placed on service development and service introduction.Init ...
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High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe's Research Communities (HP-SEE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Core European eInfrastructure for large-scale eScience research consists of the backbone GÉANT network; distributed storage & computing infrastructure - European Grid Initiative (EGI); and the PRACE initiative providing tier-0 High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. South-East European eInfrastructure initiatives aim for equal participation of the less-resourced countries of the region in ...
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Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment (VOA3R)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The general objective of the VOA3R project is to improve the spread of European agriculture and aquaculture research results by using an innovative approach to sharing open access research products. That will be achieved by carrying out innovative experiments with open access to scientific agriculture and aquaculture contents and by developing and providing services that integrates existing open a ...
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European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The European Middleware Initiative is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a su ...
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IPv6 Deployment Support (6DEPLOY-2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The overall purpose of the 6DEPLOY-2 project is to (i) support the deployment of IPv6, in Europe and developing regions, (ii) sustain the wealth of 6DEPLOY training material (e-learning package with subtitles in national languages, presentation material, exercises, etc.), and (iii) create a catalyst of global IPv6 expertise through the installation of strategically-placed sustainable IPv6 training ...
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Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures (CHAIN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Over the past 6 years, the EC has invested to extend the European eInfrastructure technology and European eInfrastructure (and particularly Grid) operational and organisational principles to a number of regions in the world, and reinforcing the close collaboration and exchange of know-how with similar technologies in other areas. A number of different collaboration models have thus been establishe ...
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Enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Virtualization and Cloud Technologies (StratusLab)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

The project is aimed at service provisioning, networking and research of cloud and virtualization technologies to simplify and optimize the use and operation of existing distributed computing infrastructures (e.g. EGEE/EGI). The project will incorporate cloud and virtualization innovation into existing Grid infrastructures by integrating cloud technologies and services within Grid sites; and by en ...
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Rural-Inclusion: e-Government Lowering Administrative Burdens for Rural Businesses (Rural-Inclusion)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

Description Better interection between regional businesses and public authoritiesRural Inclusion project focuses on improving the way transactions between rural SMEs and public authorities are carried out. This venture is based on the incorporation of cutting edge Web technologies (Semantic Web / Web2.0) in order to increase the efficienc ...
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Exchange, Valorisation and Transfer of regional best policy measures for SME support on IT and e-business Adoption. (EVITA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

Reinforcing social, economic and territorial cohesion, by making ICT products and services more accessible within less-developed regions, becomes an economic, social, ethical and political imperative, according to the Lisbon agenda. It is consequently crucial that successful policy practices, recognized by the European Commission as “best practices” are transferred from the regions that have alrea ...
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Exposing the Features in IP version Six protocols that can be exploited/extended for the purposes of designing/building Autonomic Networks and Services (EFIPSANS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services. What this means is, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communicatio ...
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Network of ICT experienced organisations, sharing experiences, knowledge and supporting SMEs (NET-SHARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description The NET-SHARE project intends to create a network of experienced ICT organizations, from several European countries, to provide support to European SMEs through sharing of the experiences and knowledge gained mainly during participation in the SME domain of the former eTEN programme.The network will be composed by former and curr ...
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Western Balkan Countries Inco-Net Support in the field of ICT (WINS-ICT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

WINS-ICT aims to strengthen S&T cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries by deepening the bi-regional strategic relations in the field of ICT and promoting the participation of WB ICT research actors in FP 7.The objectives of the WINS-ICT project are to- Provide comprehensive understanding of the current framework of EU-WBC ICT RTD policies and RTD collaboration- Optimize the cu ...
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e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2) project provides full support to the work of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG). The e-IRG has been instrumental in the development of the policies and documenting the best practices, producing five white papers and a roadmap presenting the consensus of the leading European Grid and networking infrastructure experts. ...
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Black Sea Interconnection (BSI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

The South Caucasus countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are linked to the pan European research backbone GEANT with only limited capacities which constitutes a major blocking factor to consolidate the potential of the region and to establish stronger links with the scientific community of the EU. The establishment of high speed connections between the South Caucasus countries and to GEANT wi ...
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Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures (FEDERICA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

The FEDERICA project has the following main objectives:- Support research experiments on new Internet architectures and protocols,- Create a versatile, scalable, European wide "technology agnostic" infrastructure, separated from the production networks, but with the possibility to interoperate,- Be open to host researchers hardware and applications,FEDERICA adopt the paradigm that "the infrastruct ...
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IPv6 Deployment Support (6DEPLOY)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

The purpose of the 6DEPLOY project is to support the deployment of IPv6 in (i) e-Infrastructure environments, thereby improving the use of existing research infrastructures for all fields of science and technology, (ii) FP7 projects, (iii) developing countries (Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe), and (iv) more-commercial environments in Europe.6DEPLOY exploits the expertise and high q ...
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Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure (DORII)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

The DORII project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific communities, where on the one hand the ICT technology is still not present at the appropriate level, but on the other hand it is demanded to empower its daily work. We deal with a group of scientific users, and this is a reference for DORII, with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are not integrated or integrated onl ...
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Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

ESFRI has identified High Performance Computing (HPC) as a strategic priority for Europe. Scientists and engineers must be provided with access to capability computers of leadership class in Europe to remain competitive internationally and to maintain or regain leadership. Supercomputers are an indispensable tool to solve the most challenging problems through simulations.PACE, the Partnership for ...
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SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience (SEE-GRID-SCI)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

eInfrastructure in Europe has reached a mature state where the GÉANT network forms a backbone on top of which a distributed computing infrastructure – the Grid – provides processing and storage services for eScience research. The South-East European eInfrastructure initiatives are committed to ensuring equal participation of the less-resourced countries of the region in European trends. SEEREN ini ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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Linking Scientific Computing in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (LinkSCEEM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2010,

The Cyprus Institute is developing a Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CSTRC) that will include a high-performance computing (HPC) facility on a scale expected to be in the tens of teraflops, with an associated research and educational centre devoted to computational science. The CSTRC will be designed primarily to serve the needs of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean reg ...
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European Grid Initiative Design Study (EGI_DS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

The EGI Design Study represents a project for the conceptual setup and operation of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure. The project will address key questions concerning the assessment of technical and financial feasibility of such a sustainable grid service, producing a "conceptual design report" addressed at member state policy makers and funding agencie ...
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E-Learning for Improving access to Infomation Society for SMEs in the SEE Area (ELISA)

Start date: Sep 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The ELISA proposal aims at improving the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level, by transferring EU best practice training know-how and by developing national training strategies. Emphasis is given to SMEs from rural and distant areas in Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia ...
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