EARNEST Workshop Break-Out Session Berlin, 23./ Researchers’ Requirements Chair: Patrick Bressler Rapporteur: Hans Döbbeling

Researchers’ Requirements Status Quo –Which disciplines are involved? –Current lack in humanities and Social Sciences –Last mile is the bottleneck

Demands & Desires Free global access, reliability, security Lobby the governments for open local access globally Explore potential of federations Uniform quality standards in computing environments One-stop-shopping Peer to peer networks to avoid b’neck

Virtual Research & Collaboration Strengths Optimized Access Home Flexible teams Opportunities State-of-the-art research Global participation Cross discipline co-op Weaknesses Social factor Lack of personal contact Threats VC: Technology is not yet there Lack of technology: Exclusion

Justification of effort? How do you measure success and RoI ? –just publications per ICT investment? Best practices to be learned from Norway?