EGI-Engage has been favorably evaluated

The proposal for the EGI-Engage project submitted to the EINFRA-1-2014 call has been successfully reviewed by the European Commission with a score of 15/15. The project is expected to start in March 2015 and the public launch is planned for the EGI Conference 2015 in Lisbon (18-22 May 2015).

The EGI-Engage project (full name: Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons) will bring together 43 beneficiaries from across Europe, the USA and six countries in the Asia-Pacific region, to facilitate access to research e-Infrastructures across national boundaries. The consortium is led by EGI.eu who will now prepare the grant agreement.

Tiziana Ferrari, EGI-Engage Project Director and EGI.eu Technical Director says: “EGI-Engage is an ambitious project that will push us towards new grounds. It will strategically advance EGI in key areas: user engagement with the private sector and Research Infrastructures on the ESFRI roadmap, technical capabilities, business development, and cooperation with e-Infrastructure of European dimension. Our main goal is to expand the capabilities of a European backbone of federated e-Infrastructure services for research.”

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