Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures

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.