Workshop on Environmental Sciences and e-Infrastructures

18 March 2010

Rue de la Loi, 41 (AIDCO), Room 7/23

European Commission

Brussels

Objective of the Workshop

The objective of this workshop is to help reinforcing the links between ESFRI infrastructures in the field of Environmental Sciences and e-infrastructures. It should help to create synergies between the various Environmental ESFRI infrastructures in their ICT and e-infrastructure developments, to foster the adoption of solutions already offered by current e-infrastructure projects, reducing existing gaps, and to identify remaining issues that require generic approaches or user community specific solutions.

The workshop will bring together coordinators of Environmental ESFRI infrastructures currently funded in their preparatory phase, (or in the process of preparing the grant agreements), and operators of e-infrastructures. It will thus offer the opportunity to discuss the ICT and e-infrastructure needs, commonalities and possible interfaces between the ESFRI projects in the field of Environmental Sciences.

The morning session will start with the common needs facing the 10 ESFRI projects, followed by the the specific needs of EMODNET. The common needs are, amongst others, in the area of real-time or near real-time data processing, data collection, large data storage, distributed data management, interoperability, metadata definition. This will be followed by a presentation on cultural and organisational issues in adopting e-infrastructure and ICT solutions.

The possible solutions and support provided by the existing e-infrastructures will be presented and discussed through input from the e-IRG/ESFRI Data Management Task Force as well as through experiences e-infrastructures.

The expected outcome of this workshop is a draft plan for common actions for the upcoming months, helping in particular to define future Research Infrastructure work-programmes, in particular help preparing the next call for proposals where an EU-support would be given to the clustering of ESFRI projects being implemented in the field of Environment.

List of participants

ESFRI projects in the field Environmental Sciences

LIFEWATCH Wouter Los, Alex Hardisty

ICOS Leonard Rivier

EURO-ARGO Pierre-Yves le Traon (tbc)

ERICON AB Paul Egerton (tbc)

COPAL Matt Freer, Marion Ciais

EISCAT_3D up-grade Ian McCrea

EMSO Paolo Favali (tbc)

EPOS Masimo Cocco, Torild van Eck, Jean Pierre Vilotte

IAGOS Jean-Pierre Cammas

SIOS Karin Refsnes (tbc)

E-infrastructure projects

GéANT Dai Davies, R. Hughes-Jones

EGEE Bob Jones

PRACE Dietmar Erwin

DEISA Hermann Lederer

D4Science-II Donatella Castelli

Other initiatives/forum

EMODNET Iain Shepherd (EC DG MARE)

PARADE Leif Laaksonen

ESFRI Dany Vandromme (Data Management Task Force)

e-IRG Rossend Llurba

GEOMON Martine De Maiere, Brigitte Buckman

ESFRI ENV WG

Finland, chair Eeva Ikonen, Timo Sareneva

UK Michael Schultz

Portugal Maria Rosa Santos

Poland Maciej Zalewski

Belgium Rudy Hermann

France Sylvie Joussaume

Switzerland Dominico Giardini

Austria Elisabeth Koch

European Commission

Hervé Péro European Commission, Head of Unit, DG RTD

Lorenza Saracco European Commission, Project Officer, DG RTD

Anna Maria Johansson European Commission, Project Officer, DG RTD

Agnès Robin European Commission, Project Officer, DG RTD

Mário Campolargo European Commission, Director, DG INFSO

Konstantinos Glinos European Commission, Head of Unit, DG INFSO

Kyriakos Baxevanidis (tbc) European Commission, Deputy Head of Unit, DG INFSO

Carlo Morais Pires (tbc) European Commission, Project Officer, DG INFSO

Bernad Fabianek European Commission, Project Officer, DG INFSO

Workshop on common ICT and e-infrastructure needs for the ESFRI Research Infrastructures in the field of Environmental Sciences (ENV)