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ERA is investing heavily in e-Infrastructure (e-I) to stimulate industry, improve the lives of citizens, accelerate research and gain international competitive advantage. For Europe to realise this expectation, there needs to be a diverse, knowledgeable, creative community, skilfully exploiting e-Infrastructure. ICEAGE will catalyse the necessary infrastructure and skills by establishing a world-wide initiative to inspire innovative and effective Grid Education (GE) . By Grid Education we mean not only education in the use of the Grid, but also the use of the Grid in education. We use the term "Grid" in a broad sense to include computing and communications technology, working practices and policies that underpin e-Infrastructure.

Good education in rapidly advancing scientific domains is particularly labour intensive. It must draw on the expertise of a small community of pioneers. A major objective of ICEAGE is to provide an effective mechanism for distilling their knowledge and rapidly propagating it across Europe . ICEAGE will create a forum to bring together experts world-wide to expand and advance Grid Education. Building on EGEE, ICEAGE will enable students and educators to obtain and develop Grid Education via sustained, large-scale, multi-purpose e-Infrastructures. ICEAGE will demonstrate the wide potential of Grids, revealing new creative and business opportunities which will lead to the inclusion of social, ethical and economic issues in educational programmes. ICEAGE will show clearly how education can benefit from e-Infrastructure.

ICEAGE will deliver a programme of educational events. Its outcome will be the adoption by European Universities of courses in many disciplines to support the deployment and exploitation of e-Infrastructure. ICEAGE will ensure that citizens are well prepared to use e-Infrastructure in their private and professional lives. It will stimulate European educators by closely coupling the ICEAGE forum with a pioneering educational system, based on e-Infrastructure, involving a dynamic programme of events, shared strategies, information and material. The actions on Education and Training in ICEAGE are to be understood as actions on dissemination of knowledge (in the broader sense).

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Bullet ImageOrganisation and Structure of the ICEAGE forum

The ICEAGE forum will be a crucial opinion forming, creative community, supported by WP1. It is intended that it will be a high-profile and well respected group that has considerable international influence. To achieve this, the following conditions must be met:

  1. Attract and retain intellectual investment from a strong membership.
  2. Stimulate and lead that group to work on strategic issues in grid education.
  3. Ensure that their judgements and insights are well recorded, promulgated and published.
  4. Establish a critical mass of members, material and activities at an early stage.

The ICEAGE project will ensure that the following incentives sustain commitment to the forum:

  1. A high status reputation and the kudos of being a member, through careful selection of members, and through well polished, useful, succinct and strategically relevant reports.
  2. A commitment that by being active in the ICEAGE forum a member will have significant influence on advanced grid education in areas that are important to that member.
  3. A high-value because the international and multi-disciplinary membership with a focus on education will be a unique opportunity to develop strategic insights that bear on all aspects of the educational response to the advent of pervasive e-Infrastructures.
  4. A guarantee of effective mutual support, through two meetings per year and through a number of effective communication channels, such as working groups and e-Discussions.
  5. Efficient use of members' time and efforts through: carefully planning meetings, preparing discussions well, highly effective follow up, and the provision of support for publicity, report preparation and other communications.

The majority of members will already be committed to advanced grid education (A provisional initial list of members - they agreed at the time of the proposals to be members). They will therefore find their personal investment pays off, because they can steer ICEAGE activities to help them meet their own goals, for example:

As part of the effort to use members' time and effort efficiently meetings will be arranged juxtaposed to summer schools, major conferences and EU gatherings. There will be three meetings in Europe, each in a different region and one in North America or Asia . Specialist subgroups will meet if they need to at locations that suit the specialists; e.g., if a group of geoscientists are planning the steps to persuade Geoscience educators to adapt their curricula, the meetings would be co-located with Geoscience conferences.

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WP3 will organise and conduct an annual programme of advanced grid education events including the continuation of the GGF International Summer Schools in Grid Computing, regional and specialist events. It will be led by KTH. It will undertake three strands of work:

A. Organisation of the International Summer Schools in Grid Computing.

B. Coordination with and support for other European advanced grid education events.

C. International collaboration for organising and presenting advanced grid education.

The International Summer School series is a well established and high-profile series of annual two-week summer schools attracting excellent students and world-leading experts. In the past three years it has been organised by the proposers of ICEAGE with an international programme committee. We are again organising it this year (2006) with administration from the EGEE training team at Edinburgh and local organisation and administration by the SPACI team. It received administrative help from GGF and was sponsored by CERN , GGF and the UK e-Science Core Programme. GGF is no longer able to offer administrative help.

ICEAGE will place this International Summer School Series on a firm footing by providing a framework for the planning, organisation and execution of the next two summer schools. It is important to be able to plan several years ahead to obtain the best speakers and venues.

The table below gives details about the Summer Schools available:

DatesEntityLocationContactWebsite
3-8 July, 2006 EGEE CE and SEE-GRID Budapest, Hungary grid06@lpds.sztaki.hu http://www.egee.hu/grid06/
9-21 July ,2006 ISSGC06 Ischia (Naples),Italy issgc06@nesc.ac.uk http://www.issgc.org
14-25 Aug, 2006 KTH Stockholm, Sweden Summer-2006-info@pdc.kth.se http://www.pdc.kth.se/training/2006/SummerSchool
11 Sept - 15 Sept, 2006 GridKa Karlsruhe, Germany ruediger.berlich@iwr.fzk.de http://gks06.fzk.de/
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National eScience Centre, University of Edinburgh UEDIN
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA UCAT
SOUTHERN PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES SPACI
EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CERN
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN KTH
MAGYAR TUDOMÁNYOS AKADÉMIA SZÁMÍTÁSTECHNIKAI ÉS AUTOMATIZÁLÁSI KUTATÓ INTÉZET SZTAKI
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WP4 will develop and run shared t-Infrastructure, usable by students and teachers throughout the ERA, so that they have easy access to educational exercises running on e-Infrastructure and can demonstrate the potential of e-Infrastructure to transform the way we work and live. It will be led by UCAT. By t-Infrastructure we mean e-Infrastructure specifically adapted to the needs of education, trainers and students. There are three strands to the work on t-Infrastructure:

Before discussing these in more detail, it is useful to provide additional background on t-Infrastructure. This is in two parts (1) a description of required t-Infrastructure properties, motivated by the need to support self-paced learning, hands-on exercises and demonstrations, and (2) a short summary of the GILDA t-Infrastructure, which is one of the working examples on which we will build.

We take a very broad view of grid education and include all aspects of providing and using e-Infrastructure. Hence supporting facilities that let European citizens try out demonstrations of potential uses of e-Infrastructure to help them form opinions of its potential is a goal for t-Infrastructure.

We use the word "grid" to denote any technology, operational best practice or policy that enables e-Infrastructure provision and use. Hence different versions and varieties of t-Infrastructure will be required to cover the evolution and range of technologies.

 

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No Title Documents Location Date
1 Introduction to Grid Computing and e-Infrastructure Slides AHESSC 2006-06-06
2 ICEAGE Forum Slides 1,Slides 2 Ischia Naples 2006-07-15
3 ICEAGE Forum Forum Report Ischia Naples 2006-07-15

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1 Project Kick off Edinburgh 2006-03-23
2 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-05-12
3 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-05-26
4 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-05-26
5 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-06-09
6 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-06-22
7 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-07-18
8 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-07-21
9 Project Executive Committee (cancelled) Teleconference 2006-08-04
10 Project Executive Committee (cancelled) Teleconference 2006-08-18
11 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-09-01
12 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-09-15
13 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-09-29
14 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-10-13
15 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-10-27
16 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-11-10
17 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-11-24
18 Project Executive Committee Teleconference 2006-12-08

 

 

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