Speaker
Kostas Glinos
(Head of the European Commission’s GÉANT & e-Infrastructures unit of the Directorate General for Information Society)
Description
Kostas Glinos will present an overview of the current policy developments at EU-level and the role of e-Infrastructures in this evolving context. He will focus on two Europe 2020 flagship initiatives, the Digital Agenda for Europe and the Innovation Union, and on the steps towards the construction of the European Research Area. He will also refer to the ongoing consultation on the successor of the current Framework Programme for Research.