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EU-MED Event on Research Infrastructures
- 23/10/2007
The “EU-MED Event” will take place on 23rd-24th October 2007 in Brussels. The objective of this event is to focus on aspects of collaboration are aspects of collaboration between the European Union and the Non-EU countries around the Mediterranean, namely in the fields of research infrastructures, including national research and education networks (EUMEDCONNECT) and their links to the European GÉANT network, GRID Computation (EUMEDGRID) and other e-Infrastructures.
There will be interventions from HRH Princess of Jordan Sumayya Bint Al Hassan,Dr. Najib Abdul Wahed,Deputy Minister of Higher Education for Scientific Research, Syria, Mr. Mashour Abudaka, Minister, Palestine, among others. The President of Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) will take part on behalf of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU.
The organisation of the “EU-MED Event” is based on three projects setting up eInfrastructures in the Mediterranean region: EUMEDCONNECT, EUMEDGRID and GÉANT2 development support.