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The 1st D4Science training event for e-Infrastructure administrators and Virtual Organization managers took place in ESA/ESRIN premises, Frascati (Italy) on 7-9 October 2009. The 3-day event, attended by around 15 participants, covered all steps required for the creation of a distributed e-Infrastructure, starting from basic machine resources deployment to the instantiation of a Virtual Research Environment.

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Departmental Senior Staff Management (DSSM)
Agenda points included the Forthcoming D4Science World User Meeting, 25 and 26 November 2009, FAO (D4Science project).

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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