WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,1 WP2 Strategy, governance and liaison

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,2 WP objectives The Work Package objectives are to ensure all the project high-level co-ordination activities, and to explore long term sustainability, international co-operation and liaisons with other disciplines. WP2-1 – Project overseeing –Defines the project programme –Oversees the project development and monitors the progress –Oversees the scientific aspects of the project WP2-2 – European co-operation and articulation with the national level –Manages the participation of the Euro-VO members which are not partners in the project –Manages the liaisons with the policy level (European Commission, Astronet, national and intergovernmental agencies and the policy makers in the partner countries) –Explores the extension of the astronomical VObs community to other European countries WP2-3 – Liaisons with other disciplines –Liaises with other EC-funded projects in “neighbouring” disciplines to explore possible co-operations WP2-4 – Strategy definition –Explores the different aspects of long term sustainability of the project

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,3 WP deliverables D2Project planCNRSMonth 1Based on DoW 19 Apr D8 > D10 Recommendations on the route to a sustainable European Virtual Observatory CNRSMonth 12 > Month 24 Postponed in amendment

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,4 WP2-1 Project overseing Overall leadership and planning –« Light » but effective management, as explained in WP1 –Activities followed the initial DoW, with some adjustments discussed with the partners Scientific guidance of the project –SAC meeting organised on 10 February 2011 –Previous SAC meeting June 2010 so M3 postponed from October 2010 to February 2011

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,5 WP2-2 European co-operation and articulation with the national level Participation in Board, in WP activities –No formal Board meetings, but consultation with and active participation of ESA, GAVO, SVO –SAC members from Euro-VO partners –Invitations to participate in Hands-On meeting widely distributed and participants from non partner countries funded by the project –Petr Skoda (Czech Republic) and several SVO participants funded by CNRS and ESO to participate in IVOA Naples meeting

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,6 WP2-3 Liaisons with other disciplines Participation of M. Allen in Europlanet Colloquium and of F. Genova, F. Pasian and C. Arviset in Aspera Workshop (Particle physics) Participation of VAMDC and HELIO/Europlanet community in EuroVO-ICE Technology Forums and IVOA Interops ASPIC proposal to Call 9 two slides provided by Andy

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,7 Interdisciplinary discussions Technical and policy discussions held with representatives of HELIO and Europlanet initiatives Both commonalities and differences identified in technical issues and science requirements HELIO already implementing some EuroVO technologies : VOTable, Registry Identified likely areas of shared progress : data discovery, tool interoperability Agreed intent to submit joint propo sal

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,8 ASPIC proposal Astronomy, Solar, and Planetary Infrastructure Co- ordination Goals : –Maintain international leadership on the Global VO scene –Set up concrete collaborations with neighbouring disciplines –Progress towards a common data infrastructure in the long term Submitted to Nov 2010 to Data Infrastructures Call 9 Six partners representing Euro-VO, HELIO, and Europlanet Size : €5.7m over 4.5 years Not successful, but intentions to collaborate remain

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,9 WP2-4 Strategy definition General landscape: High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data (2010) and FP8 preparatory meetings Specific landscape: Call 8 and Call 9 Call 9 better adapted for interdisciplinary aspects (ASPIC) Sustainability aspects assessed on a short time scale for a Design Study proposal to Call 8: Euro- VO Design Study (EuroVO-DS)

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,10 Euro-VO DS (1) Follow-up project from the identification of the VO as an important infrastructure of astronomy by the Astronet ERA-NET Roadmap Goal : Formulate a conceptual design of a sustainable Euro-VO Close collaboration with Astronet which provides all the contact points with European national funding agencies (well beyong Euro-VO usual partners)

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,11 Interactive map showing the partners, associate and forum members

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,12 EuroVO-DS (2) Increase awareness among and gather requirements from the scientific community (users) and data provider communities Define the technical needs to maintain the VO framework Requirements for sustainable Outreach towards education and the general public Assess and quantify all elements pertaining to sustainability Propose a governance and financial model The proposal failed but the analysis of what has to be done remains

WP2 – Strategy, governance and liaisons EuroVO-ICE– First review – 26 October 2011 Françoise Genova, EuroVO-ICE coordinator,13 The European view Collaborative Global Infrastructure Should allow a high level of diversity « Horizontal »/ « vertical », top- down/bottom-up aspects Astronomy remains at the forefront