Media Centre

09 November 2009

Media Centre

Partnerships, eAnnouncements, Newsletter and more

EUMEDGRID will developing effective communication tools ensuring engagement with stakeholders, user groups and beneficiaries from the e-Science community, deliver themed workshop events fostering knowledge exchange & technology transfer with impact reporting, investigate opportunities for synergies with regional & domain-specific initiatives, and promoting cross-sector collaborative developments.

Main activities will encompass:

Regular e-Newsletters on project updates & achievements with articles on Virtual Research Communities, short “challenges” reports, interviews, etc.;
e-Brochures on specific themes aimed at raising interest and awareness;
Dynamic web content (live interviews from selected events in EU & the Mediterranean; video-clips; short but informative digital content on Grid and EUMEDGRID-Support);
Promotional material (bookmarks, fliers, pop-up banners, etc.);
Press & media agreements and targeted articles;
Localisation of the material for the different beneficiary countries. All the key messages will be reviewed in the light of country-wise specific situation and political sensitivity to address local funding opportunities.

Last but not least a peer to peer communication, using more traditional means such as: telephone, traditional paper mail, etc. will be used. This approach has frequently demonstrated its usefulness in the previous project when applied to specific countries where the personal relationships are still the highest and effective level of communication allowed. The project will provide input for relevant European Commission initiated dissemination activities (e.g., press releases, news bulletins, brochures, success stories, posters, web-based
publications, multimedia material, etc). In this context the project's dissemination messages will also reflect its broader societal and economic impact.

The Mediterranean region is of strategic importance to the EU, in both economic (trade, energy, migration) and political (security, stability) terms.” In the economic domain, the area is still standing both fast demographic and labor force expansion, while a slow economic growth is resulting in high unemployment and stagnating incomes.

With the rapid advancement of technology in the world of science calls for a demand for more and more computing power. The implementation and co-ordination of a grid infrastructure at a national (or larger) level opens up important opportunities to optimise the usage of existing, limited storage and computing resources, improve their accessibility and empower research groups from several domains.

There is no need for e-Infrastructures without a user community correspondingly exploiting them. The project has an important responsibility to support existing user’s applications and assist new applications that will run on the Mediterranean e-Infrastructure. This activity is also committed to study and deliver a strategy for the long-term sustainability of the support system that will be put in place during the project lifetime.

EUMEDGRID-Support is developing and deploying a training program in synergy with the EPIKH project, EUMEDCONNECT2 and other initiatives, to increase the awareness in the region regarding e-Infrastructures and will contribute to enlarge and educate the user communities through training events. Collaboration opportunities are also available to engage the project through a variety channels such the Online Community and as and establish agreements with strategic e-Infrastructure projects and initiatives.

News

Presentations are available for download on the Programme Agenda for the launch event of both EUMEDGRID-Support and EUMEDCONNECT2. The high impact agenda included speakers from the EC Delegation in Cairo, Project Coordinators and Egyptian invited speakers with more than 50 participants on hand.