Engagement meeting

→ Europe/Amsterdam
Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)
Description
This is a regular teleconference for the NGI International Liaisons, UCB members, Competence Centres and for other who are involved in EGI's Engagement activity. The EGI Engagement activity reaches out to scientific communities and researchers in both academia and industry and supports them in tackling scientific challenges using reliable and innovative ICT services and solutions from the EGI community. This requires coordinated outreach, marketing, training and support activities across the EGI network and helps Europe build a sustainable digital e-infrastructure ecosystem for research. The EGI Engagement activity is defined and driven by the Engagement Strategy, which is described at http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy. Agenda points (to be refined): 1. Report on NIL status. Proposed changes to procedures (Gergely) 2. Update about Engagement cases (Gergely) 3. Report from participants on engagement progress and plans - Outreach, support, training, events (3 minutes each): * NGIs (NILs) * CCs (CC coordinators) * Communities (UCB) * Virtual Team projects (VTs) 4. AOB (email gergely.sipos@egi.eu to add other topics) 5. Date of next meeting Teleconference room (Adobe Connect): http://connect.ct.infn.it/egi-inspire-jra1/
DARIAH_CC_update
DIRAC4EGI_status_report
GergelyIntroSlides
MoBrain-WeNMR_update
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Engagement meeting
2015-DEC-07

Participants:

EGI.eu:
Gergely Sipos (meeting chair)
Giuseppe La Rocca

NILs:
Genevieve Romier
Kostas Koumantaros
Nicolai Iliuha

Communities:
Alexandre Bonvin
Antonio Lagana
Davor Davidovic
Eric Yen
Ingemar Haggstrom
Jerome Revillard
Kimmo Mattila
Victor Mendez

Topics:

Gergely: Introduction (see Engagement_update_2015dec_v1.pptx slides in the agenda)
- Introduced new UCST member: Giuseppe La Rocca from INFN Catania
- Introdcued changes to NIL network (See slide 2)
- Provided update about engagement cases (academic, SME, long-tail)
- Described changes and next steps in Engagement strategy:
    * 1-on-1 calls with NILs, UCB members, CC leaders with 3 months frequency
    * Split Engagement Strategy into a Strategy and an Action plan documents

Update reports by participants:
- Antonio (CompChem comm)
- Alexandre (WeNMR comm, MoBrain CC) - Slides in the agenda
- Davor (DARIAH CC) - Slides in the agenda
- Eric (DM CC)
- Genevieve (NGI-FR)
- Ingemar (EISCAT_3D CC)
- Kimmo (ELIXIR CC)
- Fotis (NGI-GR)
- Nikolai (Moldova)
- Victor (DIRAC)

Next meeting:
Feb 1, 2016, 2pm (Amst time)

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