1. GridCoord questionnaires: Call for attention! Luc Bougé IRISA, Rennes

2. GridCoord Specific Support Action, FP6-IST Support to the CoreGRID NoE ERA Pilot on a co-ordinated Europe- wide initiative in Grid Research 18 month funding (till 12/2005) 13 partners from 9 countries Leader: Marco Vanneschi, Pisa

3. www.gridcoord.org

4. GridCoord mission statement Co-ordination among the funding authorities in order to maximise the effective use of the considerable resources Collaboration amongst the individual researchers; the creation of European excellence and competence centres A visionary research agenda

5. GridCoord surveys Survey of national Grid R&D Initiatives across Europe Survey of the different Grid middlewares available today, to set up an information database Survey of the current state of Grid-aware curriculum in academia, in the GridCoord countries, CoreGRID partners, and selected sites (USA, Japan, Korea, etc.)

6. Questionnaires National R&D Grid Initiatives Domenico Laforenza, launched October 21 Grid Middlewares Denis Caromel, just being launched Grid Educational Programs Luc Bougé, to be launched mid-November http://www.gridcoord.org/grid/portal/questionnaire/

7. Questionnaire on R&D Initiatives Rationale and Objectives Initiative /Project Survey Form The Contributor Initiative / Project Details Already Planned / Future Initiatives Comments and Suggestions for the GridCoord Project Private Comments

9. Questionnaire on Middleware Who are you? Technical aspects Current version number, starting date, release date? What programming language does it use? Which other middleware does it rely on? Interface with? Which type of license do you provide? Which platform does it run on? Which OS? How many person/year on the project? etc. Targeted audience

10. Questionnaire on Education Who are you? Teaching context Academic curriculum, industrial seminar, etc. Graduate, PhD, continuous education, etc. Attendance? Computer scientist, external users Teaching objectives Introduction, advanced, finalized General concepts, project-centered Application domain? Teaching contents Lectures, lab classes, exercises, etc. Evaluation method? Availability of teaching material?

11. Help wanted! Please disseminate and reply! Thank you in advance