1. CHAIN WP5 Meeting, Taipei 22 March 2011
Federico Ruggieri – INFN

2. WP5 -
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. T5.1 - Involvement of scientific & technical communities
Enlarge and train scientific and technical communities to promote the usage of e-Infrastructures also in cooperation with other projects (e.g. EPIKH, EGI, EUMEDGRID-Support, EUIndiaGrid2, etc.).
Web platform to attract new communities (see later)
Thematic workshops:
OGF31 – Taipei 23 March “eInfrastructures interoperability across EU and Asia”
EGI-UF – Vilnius April “VRCs meet eInfrastructure providers”
ICTP – Trieste May “Role of eInfrastructures for Climate Change Research”
Cooperation with other projects (e.g. EPIKH, EGI, EUMEDGRID- Support, EUInduaGrid2, etc.), on advanced knowledge dissemination events on application porting:
Africa Event in Rabat – Morocco June 2011

4. Web site: www.chain-project.eu
New technology based: Liferay
Set-up in cooperation with CIEMAT.
Managed by:
Rita Ricceri (INFN) – General & WP5 specific
Stefano Troiani (CIEMAT) – General & WP3 specific
WP2 & WP4 persons with admin rigths to be nominated.

5. Events Table Modified (Table 1 – pg. 19 Part B of the DoW)
Type
Venue/Region
Theme
Proposed
time W1
Thematic Workshop
Asia
ISGC2011/OGF31
Grid Inreoperability across EU and Asia
M04 W2
Europe
(Latin America)
VRCs meet eInfrastructures
Role of eInfrastructures for Climate Change
(Bio-Medical & Health)
M05
M06
(M08) E1
High-Level Conference
Mediterranean (Jordan ?)
eInfrastructures for Research and Education
Research Infrastructures
M12 W3
Mediterranean/
Africa
Earth Sciences & Environment
M16 W4
Computational Science
M20 E2
A World of Globalised Science
M24

6. Workshop at OGF 31 – 23 March
“e-Infrastructures Interoperation and Interoperability across Europe and the Asia-Pacific Region”
Introduction:
A.Masoni - EU-IndiaGrid2 Project Manager
F. Ruggieri – CHAIN Project Manager
Network interoperation: R. Hughes-Jones (DANTE) the TEIN3 Project
Interoperability solutions in India: M. Verlato, EU-IndiaGrid2 Project
Interoperability solutions in China: G. Andronico, EUCHINAGrid Project
Contributions from other Asia Pacific Countries
Middleware interoperation & interoperability
Steven Newhouse EGI.eu
Morris Riedel Julich Supercomputing centre, Grid Interoperation Now Community Group
A. Papaspyro, Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE)
Conclusions: F. Ruggieri, Alberto Masoni

7. EGI User Forum – Vilnius April
Session A: (90 mn: 4 presentations + 20 mn discussion)
Biology VRC: WeNMR (A. Bonvin) and HealthGrid (Y. Legré): 30 mn
Geosciences (M. Petitdidier): 20 mn
Digital Cultural Heritage VRC – DC-NET & INDICATE projects (A. Fresa): 20 mn
Session B: (90 mn: 3 * 20 mn presentations + 30 mn discussion)
EGI to present its VRC coordinating role with the Resource Infrastructure Providers (as discussed in the Amsterdam meeting)
GISELA to present its VRC framework for LA (e.g. Dissemination, customized Training, new Services,..)
CHAIN to present its VRC framework for the RIPs it represents (EUMEDGRID, EUIndiaGrid2,...)

8. Events in 2011 Date Organised by Status 13-14 January 2011 DC-NET Done
Description and location
Organised by
Status
13-14 January 2011
DC-NET Concertation Seminar - Tallinn (Estonia)
DC-NET
Done
27 January 2011
EPIKH Workshop in Tunis
EPIKH/EUMEDGRID-Support/CHAIN
Cancelled
18 February 2011
Workshop EPIKH (India)
EPIKH / EU-IndiaGrid2
21-25 March 2011
OGF31 Taiwan
OGF
NOW
11-14 April 2011
EGI User Forum – Vilnius
EGI / CHAIN/GISELA
Organised
16-20 May 2011
Workshop on eInfrastructres for Climate Change in ICTP Trieste
EUMEDGRID-Support & EUIndiaGrid2 & CHAIN
4-6 May 2011
IST-Africa , Gabarone, Botswana
IST-Africa
????
27 May 2011
EPIKH Workshop , Beijing China
EPIKH / CHAIN
June-July 2011
Workshops on eInfrastructures to support Scientific Applications in Lebanon "Universitè saint-Joseph" in Beirut
EUMEDGRID-Support
Org. Started
19-23 September 2011
EGI Autumn Technical Forum & EUMEDGRID-Support User Forum
EGI / EUMEDGRID-Support
TBD
Oct./Nov. 2011
High Level Policy & EUMED 4 Event
EUMEDGRID-Support, CHAIN, EPIKH, ASREN

9. T5.2 Solicitation of high-level policy awareness
The task aims to:
support the regional communities towards the governments, stakeholders and policy makers;
get consensus and concertation on the relevant aspects of the analysis of the issues and proposed solutions;
promote the stability of existing and emerging e-Infrastructures and gathering of feedbacks
A limited (one per year) number of high-level conferences will be organised in order to raise the interest of funding bodies, governments, stakeholders and policy makers.
The project will exploit the collaboration with other project, organisations, committees and initiatives (e.g. EGI, PRACE, EUMEDGRID-Support, EU-IndiaGrid2, e-IRG, ESFRI, e-IRG, etc.)

10. First High Level Policy Event
November/December 2011 co- organised with EUMEDGRID-Support, ASREN ?, EUMECONNECT3 ?, GEANT ?
Date and Venue to be agreed: December 2011 – Jordan ???
High level of attention now on the South Mediterranean and Middle East
A wind of change is blowing on the area, this may slow down some activities, but also open new opportunities
Need involvement of partners at Policy level.

11. Task 5.3 Dissemination and outreach.
This task will perform the following activities:
Dissemination of results and advanced knowledge related to e-Infrastructures and gathering of feedbacks in cooperation with EPIKH, and other projects.
Dissemination towards stakeholders: dedicated brochures to stimulate the political support to e-Infrastructures initiatives in Europe and in the other regions.
Organise the production and distribution of dissemination materials
Create and maintain a contacts database.
Cooperation with other projects such as EGI-INspire, EMI, GISELA, WeNMR, INDICATE, DECIDE, INSPIRE and ERINA+ establishing Memoranda of Understanding describing the common activities.
Disseminate the results also via presentations in the events organised by other projects and regularly invite other relevant projects to contribute to CHAIN’s Thematic Workshops and High-Level Conferences.

12. MoUs with other Projects
Signed
Prepared
In the pipeline
WRF4G
WeNMR
INDICATE

13. Africa Regional Operation Centre

14. 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

15. Conclusions & plans New material needed in the web site
Produce a Video on the results of the Questionnaire
Start the organisation of the High Level Policy Event; partners should provide: contacts of persons for dissemination in the respective areas, promote the event on their web sites, suggest speakers.
Probably we’ll organise an higher number of WS during the first year.
New tools can be implemented in the web site, please suggest your favourite ones.