Outreach

D4Science-II started on October 1st 2009 as one of the main European e-Infrastructure projects, involving 10 participants such as the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Co-funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, the D4Science-II project will hold its kick-off meeting 13-16 October 2009 in Pisa, Italy.

The D4Science project actively participated in the EGEE'09 conference held at the Hotel Barcelo Sants in Barcelona between the 21 and 25 September 2009. The conference was attended by more than 630 delegates from many different countries and focused on the future of grid computing in Europe and in particular the plans towards the new European Grid Initiative (EGI).

Five members of the D4Science consortium attended this international event, including the Project Director, the Technical Director, user community representatives and operational staff. They contributed to the conference agenda with 1) a Session and 2) a Demonstration.

A WebAgris User Group meeting took place 23-25 September 2009 in FAO HQ in Italy. More than 20 participants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe participated to discuss further developments of the WebAgris tool for bibliographic data management. Most participants were from information centres of agricultural research organizations or universities, some from ministries of agriculture. Johannes Keizer, D4Science Outreach Manager, gave a presentation about D4Science, which found a great interest among the participants.

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From monitoring fishing stocks, to forecasting weather conditions, to mitigating the after-effects of earthquakes, the Earth and Environmental Sciences are a hot spot of research within the grid computing community. During this week’s Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) conference in Barcelona, this community will share the latest advances in their work.
Read the complete EGEE'09 News release on http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=61163&CultureCode=en