NA2 Summary Report

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NA2 Summary Report

South East Europe Federation:

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Turkey

EGEE NA2 Partner Review, Prague, 26-27 November 2007 2



EGEE2 SEE NA2 partners

• South East Federation partners with NA2 effort:– Institute for Parallel Processing – Bulgarian Academy of

Sciences (IPP-BAS), for Bulgaria (12 PM)– University of Cyprus, Dept. of Comp. Sci. (UCY), for Cyprus (12

PM)– GRNET, for Greece (12 PM)– National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics

(ICI), for Romania (12 PM)– Institute of Physics (IPB), for Serbia (24 PM)– Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

(TUBITAK – ULAKBIM), for Turkey (24 PM)




SEE specifics

• Organization type:– 4 academic institutions– 1 state own company– 1 governmental organization

• 6 partners, 5 different languages• Fast growing user community




Major NA2 SEE federation contribution

• EGEE event: 8th EGEE conference to be held in Istanbul, Turkey

• EGEE SEE industry-related events: – EGEE-SEEGRID Industry day for SEE region in Thessaloniki,

Greece, September 2007 (participants from all SEE countries)– GRNET participation at SC 2006 and SC 2007

• EGEE SEE governmental-related event: Workshop for policy makers, April 2006, Athens, Greece

• EGEE-SEEGRID scientific events: International workshops “Computational Grid and Large-Scale Problems” and “Network and Grid Infrastructures” in Bulgaria, 2007 (participants from SEE countries, but also Hungary, Russia, Japan, etc.)




Media Relations

Country Press Releases

Press Cuttings

Interviews Sci. publ.

Bulgaria 19 22 2 8Cyprus 17 3 - 23Greece 5 5 2 5

Romania - - 2 8Serbia 9 - 23 15Turkey 8 1 2 8

Total 59 31 31 65




Events

Country National events

Int. events

Industry related

Gov.related

Bulgaria 8 8 5 4

Cyprus 10 10 1 2

Greece 24 16 1 2

Romania 10 7 - -

Serbia 6 7 3 14

Turkey 9 - 2 4

Total 67 48 12 26




Production of promotional materials

Country PR and IS Translated PR

Translated Inf. sheets

Other

Bulgaria 6 15 25 7

Cyprus 4 5 21 6

Greece 5 5 5 -

Romania - - 3 -

Serbia 2 8 10 -

Turkey 4 8 25 2

Total 21 41 89 15




Local web pages

Country EGEE inf. (PR, IS)

Local Information

Grid cafe

Other Hits per month

Bulgaria 16 7 24 18 590

Cyprus 835

Greece 1314

Romania 3 4 - 5 145

Serbia 22 4 - 6 430

Turkey 5 10 - 16 1024

Total 46 25 24 45 4338




Industry Event: EGEE SEE/SEEGRID Industry Day

• Thessaloniki,

September 2007




Scientific Event: Computational Grid and Large-Scale Problems

6th Int. Conf. LSSC’07, June 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria:

a good way to present grid applications with high scientific impact in front of a broad scientific audience

•Selected papers to be published in Springer LNCS – a series with impact factor




Further details

• Detailed presentations per country:– Bulgaria, by Aneta Karaivanova– Cyprus, by Maria Poveda– Greece, by Kostas Stratis– Romania, by Adrian Vataman– Serbia, By Aleksandar Bogojevic– Turkey, by Burku Ortakaya

Documents

NA2 Summary Report