Vision – be the high-level body developing policies to reinforce and promote efforts to foster world-class ICT infrastructures
Goals - to build a network that will develop and strengthen cooperation and coordination between national e-infrastructures and smooth their efficient integration in the European Research Area. The project will establish an effective dialogue between national e-infrastructure programme owners and managers in Europe, at the European Commission level and globally.
Focus Areas
Cloud Computing – Dynamically scaleable and often virtualised resources.
Environmental and Green Computing – Environmentally sustainable computing or ICT
Openness -Open Access, Open Source, Open Borders and Open Opportunity
Mar
28
e-InfraNet and the National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) service are jointly organising a workshop for Research-led Teaching and Resource Sharing to take place in the Science Gallery, Dublin on the 28th and 29th of May 2012.
The workshop aims to bring together representatives from the European and wider teaching, research repository and data infrastructure communities for the purpose of demonstrating the feasability and potential benefits of linking research and teaching repositories within Europe.
Further information about the workshop is available here
Feb
23
This event which is jointly organised by the JISC funded SusteIT project in collaboration with the EAUC Travel Coordinator’s group, the Welsh Video Network and the University of Warwick on will examine the potential uses and benefits of conferencing for universities and colleges. The event aims to disseminate the latest research on conference usage, impacts and potential.
Further information on this event is available here :
Feb
23
The Green GÉANT Team as part of the GN3 project has been involved in gauging the environmental impact of the GÉANT network, and exploring the positive effects that networking can have in reducing carbon emissions in all sectors of society.
A workshop to report on the recent work done by Green GÉANT partners is being organised on the 5th and 6th of March in the SURFnet offices in Utrecht.
This workshop is targeted primarily at NREN participants both operational and management, ICT and facilities management personnel in higher education institutions and from environmental agents and decision-makers.
The agenda for the event is available here