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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. MoUs with other Projects
Signed
Prepared

5. 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 Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TBD
26 February – 2 March 2012
ISGC Taiwan
Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center
???
EGI User Forum - ??
EGI
?? June 2012
CLARA Meeting - LA
CLARA

6. Nairobi - November 2011 UbuntuNet Connect Annual Conference
24-25 November 2011, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
CHAIN Meeting on November
CHAIN sponsored Workshop on 23 November 2011

7. 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

8. Other events to consider
ICDCN 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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.