CHAIN WP5 Meeting, Lyon 20 September 2011 Federico Ruggieri – INFN

WP5 - Introduction Dissemination and Outreach (WP5). The WP will deploy a large activity of dissemination focused on different targets: stakeholders and policy makers (high-level conferences, brochures, contacts DB), scientists and technical people (thematic workshops, dedicated web tools, contacts DB), industry (specific meetings, memoranda and web tools) and general public (web platform and press releases). Specific Actions: organisation of thematic workshops (two per year) , with real intercontinental participation, on topics of large scientific and/or social impact that are, or could be, better addressed by the adoption of e-Infrastructures and, at the same time, promote the stability of existing and emerging e-Infrastructures and gathering of feedbacks by means of a limited (one per year) number of high-level conferences.

WP5 - Objectives Disseminate the benefits of e-Infrastructures in the scientific and technical communities, training them and supporting the transition of relevant applications to the new e-Infrastructure paradigm. Get the consensus of scientific communities on the usefulness and relevance of these e-Infrastructures for the improvement of their research activities. Solicit the policy makers, stakeholders and governments to get awareness of the relevance of e-Infrastructures in the development of intercontinental scientific and technological research and, thus, in the general development of countries and continents. Promote the involvement of funding agencies and governments in the planning and evolution of e-Infrastructures in the countries and regions favouring the inclusion of specific budget lines in their future planning.

MoUs with other Projects Signed Prepared

Events in 2011 and 2012 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Date Description and location Organised by Status 19-23 September 2011 EGI Autumn Technical Forum & EUMEDGRID-Support User Forum EGI / EUMEDGRID-Support NOW 23-25 November 2011 Ubuntunet Connect 2011 – Nairobi, Kenya Ubuntunet Organised 12-14 December 2011 Integrating Arab E-infrastructure in a Global Environment eAGE 2011 EUMEDGRID-Support, ASREN, Internet2, CHAIN, EUMECONNECT3 Preparation 3-6 January 2012 ICDCN 2012 - Hong Kong The Hong Kong Polytechnic University TBD 26 February – 2 March 2012 ISGC 2012 - Taiwan Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center ??? EGI User Forum - ?? EGI ?? June 2012 CLARA Meeting - LA CLARA

Nairobi - November 2011 UbuntuNet Connect Annual Conference 24-25 November 2011, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa CHAIN Meeting on 22-23 November CHAIN sponsored Workshop on 23 November 2011 http://www.ubuntunet.net/uc2011_cfp

Amman – December 2011 INTEGRATING ARAB E-INFRASTRUCTURE e-AGE 2011 Co-organised with EUMEDGRID-Support, ASREN, EUMECONNECT3, Internet 2 12-14 December 2011 Amman, Jordan

Other events to consider ICDCN 2012 - Hong Kong, 3-6 January 2012 A good opportunity but will probably clash with the preparation of the First Periodic Review. CHAIN Meeting ? ISGC 2012 – Taiwan, 26 February – 2 March 2012 No CHAIN Meeting foreseen (we had already one in 2011) Possibly a Workshop on Interoperability or eInfrastructures for Asia. EGI User Forum 2012 A Workshop could be proposed

Events Table (New Table 1 – in the Amended DoW) Type Venue/Region Theme Proposed time 1 Thematic Workshop Asia ISGC2011/OGF31 Grid Inreoperability across EU and Asia M04 2 Europe – Vilnius VRCs meet eInfrastructure providers M05 3 High-Level Conference Europe - Trieste Role of eInfrastructures for Climate Change Research M06 4 Nairobi, Africa eInfrastructures for Africa M12 5 Amman, Jordan e-AGE2011 M13 6 Latin America eInfrastructures for LA M20 7 A World of Globalised Science M24

Deliverables & Milestones Del. no. Deliverable name Lead bene- ficiary Delivery date (PM) D5.1 Collaborative tools and CHAIN Web platform INFN 2 Delayed of 40 days D5.2 Analysis of the outcomes of the first year workshops. 12 D5.3 Analysis of the outcomes of the second year workshops. 23 Milestone no. Milestone name Lead beneficiary Delivery date from Annex I Comments (Means of verification) M5.1 Web portal – first static version INFN PM2 Web site accessible M5.2 First thematic workshop PM4 Press release M5.3 First high level conference PM12 M5.4 Final high-level conference PM24

Issues Improve the feedback from the partners News related to their eInfrastructures Relevant events VRCs information and contacts Improve relationships with other Infrastructures and dissemination projects.

Conclusions & plans Produce a Brochure & a Video on the results of the Questionnaire & D4.1 & D2.2 Start the organisation of the next Events; partners should provide: contacts of persons for dissemination in the respective regions. We are organising (or participating) a higher number of WS and High Level events during the first year.