The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
NA5 - POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The principal objective of the Policy and International Cooperation activity is to allow the Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE) project to operate in the global development environment and to ensure Europe can work constructively with the major Grid players from around the world.
The objectives of the Policy and International Cooperation team include:
- To foster cooperation between EGEE and other Grid activities around the world
- To participate in an eInfrastructure reflection group in Europe
- To play a leading role in standard setting through attendance at global standard bodies such as the Global Grid Forum
The eInfrastructure Reflection Group (eIRG)
The main objective of the eIRG is to support the creation of a policy and administrative framework on the political, advisory and monitoring level. This framework will be employed for the easy and cost-effective shared use of electronic resources in Europe (focusing on Grid-computing, data storage, and networking resources) across technological, administrative and national domains. The eIRG consists of appointed Member, Accession and Associated States Representatives plus European Commission officials. It will initially be coordinated by rotating European Union presidencies with the scheme of a troika of past - current - future presidencies, and is supported by a Technical Support Group, via resources from EU flagship projects (EGEE, DEISA and GN2) and possibly other initiatives.
EGEE will cooperate with a number of projects, in particular:
- DILIGENT (Testbed Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology) aims at integrating the Grid and Digital Library (DL) technologies to allow members of dynamic virtual e-Science organisations to access shared knowledge and to collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way
- SEE-GRID (South Eastern European Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development) aims to provide specific support actions to assist the participation of the South East European states to pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives. It establishes a seamless and interoperable pilot-Grid infrastructure that will expand and support the European research Area (ERA) in the region
- DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) is a consortium of leading national supercomputing centres in Europe aiming to jointly build and operate a distributed terascale supercomputing facility.