VI-SEEM Virtual Research Environment in Southest Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
Aim:
VI-SEEM aims at creating a unique Virtual Research Environment (VRE) in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (SEEM), in order to facilitate regional interdisciplinary collaboration, with special focus on the scientific communities of Life Sciences, Climatology and Digital Cultural Heritage. The project unifies existing e-Infrastructures into an integrated platform to better utilize synergies, for an improved service provision within a unified Virtual Research Environment to be provided to scientific communities of high impact in the combined South East Europe and Eastern Mediterranean region.
Objectives:
- Provide scientists with access to state of the art e-Infrastructure – computing, storage and connectivity resources – available in the region; and promote the inclusion of additional resources.
- Integrate the underlying e-Infrastructure layers with generic / standardized as well as domain-specific services for the region. The latter are leveraging on existing tools with additional features being co-developed and co-operated by the Scientific Communities and the e-Infrastructure providers, thus proving integrated Virtual Research Environments.
- Promote capacity building in the region and foster interdisciplinary approaches.
- Provide functions to facilitate data management for the selected Scientific Communities, engage the full data management lifecycle, link data across the region, and provide data interoperability across disciplines.
- Provide adequate user support and training programs for the user communities in the SEEM region.
- Bring high level expertise in e-Infrastructure utilization to enable research activities of international standing in the selected fields of Climatology, Life Sciences and Cultural Heritage.
Partners:
Public research institutes and universities from 16 countries (Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan). Leadership and coordination is taken by Greek Research and Technology Network S.A.