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Jean-Luc DorelEuropean Commission - DG INFSO

Jean-luc.dorel@ec.europa.eu

"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

Effelsberg, 19 November 2008

The e-VLBI Effelsberg Inauguration:European Commission perspective

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Global & complex challenges with high societal impact

Data deluge… born digital material… virtual-labs

Cross-disciplinarity

Spread of skills and competences

empiricalexperimental

theoreticalcomputational science

e-Science

Global Virtual Research Communities

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Pan-European coverage (40+ countries /4000 institutions / 30+ million students)

Hybrid architecture:

connectivity at 10 Gb/s (aggregated traffic)

dark fiber wavelengths(demanding communities)

NREN aggregator

Global reach

GEANT3

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Linking the ideas at the speed of the light: GÉANT

Accessing knowledge: scientific data

Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities

Sharing the best resources: e-Science grid

Designing future facilities: novel e-Infrastructures

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EGEEDEISA

DRIVER

GÉANT

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generic e-Infrastructure… user communities involvement

neuGRIDEUFORIAD4SCIENCEETSF

IMPACTMETAFOREuroVO-AIDAGENESI-DR

EXPRESFEDERICAEVALSO

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ESFRI: European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

e-IRG: e-Infrastructures Reflection Group

ENPG: European Network Policy Group

Council of European Union: research infrastructures, scientific data, regional dimension

ERA (European Research Area) green book

Communications to the Council and Parliament: scientific data, ICT infrastructures for Science

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e-Infrastructures implement a key EU policy and strategy.

Each project has a dual role: to reach its own objectives, to ensure the advancement of e-Infrastructures. The nature of infrastructure highlights this second objective. The value of a project is directly proportional to its ability to establish synergies within the domain.

EXPReS and e-VLBI is part of this strategy by both advancing the radio-astronomy towards new ways of doing science as well as a promoting the usage of e-infrastructure

www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/