e-Science News News
- Promoting the Initiative IBERCIVIS – Your Computer Doing Science - 17/02/2010
In the 23rd February 2010, at the auditorium of the High School D. Dinis in Lisbon, there will be a meeting to promote the initiative IBERCIVIS – Your Computer Doing Science which was launched in Portugal on the 30th July 2009 (see Initiative IBERCIVIS: Citizens can donate their computer time to science). This Volunteer Computing initiative for scientific purposes conducted in cooperation with Spain welcomes the participation of citizens in a scientific research directly and in real time, offereing the processing time of their computers, in particular when they are not being used, to perform scientific computing. - FCCN Presents Recent Developments of the RCTS - 24/08/2009
The Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN) presents July 28, 2009 the latest developments of the National Research and Education Network, the Science Technology and Society Network (RCTS), which were developed with funding and guidance of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) and also supported by funds from the Knowledge Society Operational Program (POSC). The presentation, in the facilities of FCCN located at the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), Avenida do Brasil, Lisbon, is attended by the Minister of Science Technology and Higher Education, José Mariano Gago. - Access to Part of b-on Made Available to the University of Cape Verde - 12/03/2009
Cooperation Protocol with three Portuguese institutions ensuring the University of Cape Verde access to 2,069 scientific periodicals and more than 1 million bibliographical records of the Academic Online Library (b-on) of Portugal.Under the scope of the official visit of the Prime Minister of Portugal to Cape Verde, a Cooperation Protocol was signed on 13 March 2009 between Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) of the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, FCCN – Foundation for National Scientific Computation, ANACOM – ICP - National Communications Authority, and the University of Cape Verde, regarding the Knowledge Library Online (b-on).
- 6th Meeting of the Policy Board of the European Grid Initiative - 01/03/2009
The 6th Meeting of the Policy Board of the European Grid Initiative (EGI) took place on 1 March 2009, taking advantage of the holding of the 4th EGEE User Forum / OGF 25 event from 2 to 6 March 2009, in Catania, Sicily, Italy, which involved 630 participants.Portugal participated in the EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-sciencE in Europe Project through LIP - the Experimental Particle Physics and Instrumentation Laboratory (Lisbon and Coimbra), of the Universities of Porto and Minho, the Centre for Plasma Physics at IST (Instituto Superior Técnico), and IEETA – the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering (IEETA) and the University of Aveiro.
- 5th Meeting of the Policy Board of the European Grid Initiative - 20/01/2009
The 5th Meeting of the Policy Board of the European Grid Initiative (EGI) was held on 20 January 2009 in Prague, the Czech Republic.
The President of Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) and Professor Gaspar Barreira, Director of LIP – the Experimental Particle Physics and Instrumentation Laboratory, joined the EGI Policy Board as representatives of the National Grid Initiative.
- Meeting of the Joint Portugal – Spain Committee for e-Science Cooperation - 12/01/2009
The Joint Portugal-Spain Committee for e-Science Cooperation met at the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, in Madrid on 12 January 2009 to analyse the progress made and plans to be developed under the scope of the cooperation between the two countries with regard to IBERGRID, voluntary computing, supercomputing, the education and research networks of the two countries and open access scientific repositories.The Portuguese delegation was headed by the President of Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Luis Magalhães, and included the Portuguese coordinator for these cooperation Programmemes, Gaspar Barreira, the President of the Foundation for National Scientific Computation (FCCN – Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional), Pedro Veiga, as well as individuals involved in the more technical aspects, such as Grid Computing (Jorge Gomes, of the Associated Laboratory LIP – The Experimental Particle Physics and Instrumentation Laboratory), Supercomputing (Manuel Fiolhais, from the Centre for Computational Physics of the University of Coimbra), of Voluntary Computing (Rui Brito, from CNC – Centre for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra) and open access scientific repositories (Diogo Gomes, from FCCN).
- 3rd Conference on Free Access to Knowledge - 14/12/2008
The 3rd Conference on Free Access to Knowledge took place on 15-16 December 2008 at the University of Minho-Braga (Amphitheatre B1, Pedagogic Complex II - Gualtar Campus), organised by the Documentation Services of the University of Minho with the support of FCCN – Foundation for National Scientific Computation, under the scope of the project to set up the Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal (RCAAP – Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) with financing by Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), and with the co-financing of the Operational Programme for the Knowledge Society (POSC). - Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures - 07/10/2007
To mark the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, the e-IRG – e- Infrastructures Reflection Group’s Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures is being held on 11th – 12th October 2007 in Lisbon at the National Civil Engineering Laboratory in Lisbon. It aims to stimulate interaction between the scientific community and bodies responsible for coordination, monitoring and consultancy for scientific policies related to e-Infrastructures. The workshop agenda includes interventions on the National GRID Initiative, the IBERGRID – Iberian Computation Grid Network cooperation plan, different aspects of Computation Grid network data bases and security, and the perspectives of the European Grid Initiative, the next generation of the European GEANT3 and FEDERICA networks , the EGEE – Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project and PACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, which are initiatives that Portugal is participating in via various institutions. - 1st IBERGRID Conference - 13/05/2007
The 1st IBERGRID – Iberian Computation Grid Network Conference is being held on 14th to 16th May 2007 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. IBERGRID was set up by a joint decision of the Spanish and Portuguese governments at the November 2006 Portugal-Spain summit. The objective was to integrate the two countries’ Computation Grid infrastructures in a coherent network, thus increasing their computational capacity and stepping up cooperation between their institutions and researchers and reinforcing scientific cooperation between the two countries’ institutions and researchers working in this field. As one of the instruments for intensifying collaboration between Spanish and Portuguese institutions and researchers, the decision was taken to hold a series of annual conferences, alternating from one country to the other, starting with this conference. - R&D Projects in the GRID Computation field - 07/11/2006
In the scope of the National GRID Initiative , the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology published the public notice of a call for proposals for R&D projects in GRID Computation and for projects demonstrating and applying GRID Computation, which is open from 1st November to 15th December. - INGRID'06 Day – 11th Nov 2006 - 07/11/2006
Marking the opening of the 1st call for proposals under the National GRID Initiative, INGRID’06 Day is being held on 11th November 2006, from 8 am to 6.15 pm in the Auditorium of the Science Faculty on the Universidade do Minho’s Gualtar campus in Braga. For information and enrolments, go to the corresponding web pages. An FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology initiative, with the collaboration of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) and the support of the Universidade do Minho, the day intends to contribute towards facilitating applications for the aforementioned call by the scientific and technological community and to transmit information about opportunities in this area in the European Union’s VII Research Framework Programme. - National GRID Initiative Launch - 22/06/2006
The launch of the National GRID Initiative will be held in the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon on 29th April 2006 from 3 pm to 6.30 pm at a session chaired by the Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education. The Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) is in charge of preparing and organising this session and initiative.
The meeting agenda comprises interventions from guest speakers, namely from the European Commission, CERN and GRID research and computation centres in Spain, who will be speaking on the European Commission’s vision of GRID computation and various European projects in this field, including infrastructure, scientific and medical imaging projects. Speakers will present the state of play of GRID Computation in Portugal and international cooperation projects in this field, which will be discussed by a panel of researchers and companies from different parts of Portugal.
- New b-on Knowledge Library Online Portal: More User-Friendly and with New Functions - 27/09/2005
The national academic and scientific community has today been given access to the new b-on – Knowledge Library Online portal, which is more user-friendly and streamlined.
The portal, which has been available since April 2004, now has new and more significant functions. It is now easier for users to find what they are looking for in the vast array of content available on b-on: more than 16000 full text titles and reference databases.
In addition to the basic functions that were available on the old version, such as the federated search engine, the single search interface and the personal area, different interface types are now available for different user types (beginner, standard or expert) with streamlined search, navigation and results interfaces, an A-Z list by institution type (standard or hospital) and crucial background help.