3rd Concertation meeting on e-Infrastructure

The European Commission's e-Infrastructure Concertation initiative aims at stimulating cooperation and knowledge exchange between members of FP6-funded projects, at supporting cross-fertilisation and optimisation of synergies between network and grid projects as an essential factor for the success of the European Research Area (ERA).

New R&D projects have been launched as a result of the last calls of the IST Programme and are now in their early phase of activities. In that context, the European Commission with the support of the PANLAB project is organising a Concertation Meeting on 20 November 2006, in Helsinki, at Nokia Research Center.

This 3rd concertation event is more focussed on network related issues and integration of those new actions in the existing e-Infrastructure concertation mechanism. The emphasis will be put on the Research Networking Testbeds supporting experimentally driven research, which have been a key element for European Research, in particular in the area of networking.

The objectives of the meeting are:

• to provide an update on the on-going concertation efforts on networks and grids · to discuss the trends and critical issues related to the future of research networking testbeds and to explore creation of synergies between projects
• to explore plans for future actions (in particular, within the context of the upcoming FP7)
• to pursue efforts to maximize synergy with other similar concertation initiatives

Agenda page

Agenda for download in doc format (355 kb)

Venue

Nokia Research Center, Auditorium Da Vinci
Helsinki Ruoholahti
Itämerenkatu 11-13
00180 Helsinki, Finland

 

Registration and accommodation

Registration is closed. The deadline was 30 October 2006.

Accommodation options:

Crowne Plaza, Helsinki
Holiday Inn, Helsinki City West (within walking distance from the venue)

Additional Information

Nokia Research Center - location and transportation
Helsinki map service
Helsinki tourist information

 

Contact

Susanna Avessta for registration and hotel booking assistance: susanna.avessta(at)devera.fi

Marina Royer-Toupitsyna for agenda points, planning and presentations: marina.royer(at)cec.eu.int

Organisers

European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, 
Unit F3 Research Infrastructure

Supported by Panlab