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Horizon 2020 e-infrastructures consultation is extended to 15 May 2016

14/05/2016

Horizon 2020 e-infrastructures consultation is extended to 15 May 2016. More time to have your say on European e-infrastructure!Can you identify the challenges the e-infrastructure stakeholders are facing and to which the future work programme should respond to? The consultation on European e-infrastructure process involves an open consultation allowing the European Commission ...

AfricaConnect2: the EU-funded pan-African connectivity project - boosting ​​global scientific collaborations

13/05/2016

AfricaConnect2 (2015 - 2018)  - a successor of the AfricaConnect (2011-2015) – is a research and education networking project which aims at connecting the participating national research and education network partners across and beyond (through the pan-European GÉANT network) Africa.​​​"The AfricaConnect2 project comes at a time when the demand for adequate ...

Towards a global Open Research Environment. Highlights from the “ESFRI Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures” and the “EC Communication about the European Cloud Initiative"

12/05/2016

In March and April 2016 the European research community saw the release of two important documents: the ESFRI Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures - Roadmap 2016 and the Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe. Their unifying aspect is: an Open Research environment ensuring Europe a leading place in the ...

Highlights from the COAR 2016 Annual Meeting & General Assembly

11/05/2016

The COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) 2016 Annual Meeting & General Assembly was hosted by the University of Vienna from 11 to 14 April, 2016. This international event contained eleven sessions which were attended by eighty-tree participants.  Below you can read some highlights from COAR (@COAR_eV) 2016 which have traced current developments  in relation ...

PhenoHarmonIS 2016 workshop 9-13 May: web streaming available

10/05/2016

PhenoHarmonIS 2016 workshop on Semantics for Harmonization and Integration of Phenotyping and Agronomic Data will be held from 9-13 May in Montpellier, France.  Rational and objectives, agenda and participants' list are available on the workshop web site :  http://tinyurl.com/ho4j922.  We are expecting 80 participants from 17 countries and of various ...