Conveners
Research Infrastructures
- Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
Research Infrastructures
- Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
Description
Research infrastructures (RIs) play an increasingly important role in the advancement of knowledge and technology. They are a key instrument in bringing together a wide diversity of stakeholders to look for solutions to many of the problems society is facing today. RIs offer unique research services to users from different countries, attract young people to science, and help to shape scientific communities. RIs help to create a new research environment in which all researchers - whether working in the context of their home institutions or in national or multinational scientific initiatives - have shared access to unique or distributed scientific facilities (including data, instruments, computing and communications), regardless of their type and location in the world. RIs are therefore at the centre of the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation, producing knowledge through research, diffusing it through education, and applying it through innovation.
EGI supports the digital European Research Area and RIs with an open federation of services that provide uniform access to national computing, storage and data resources. National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs), providers of EGI services, accumulated knowledge on developing, deploying, operating and monitoring custom services for scientific purposes in Europe and beyond. This double-session includes presentations about RIs that consume services from EGI and about collaborations that are forming between the NGIs and RIs.
