National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is represented by the National e-Science Centre (NeSC). NeSC was proposed and established by a consortium of departments from the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. It has the responsibility for supporting the UK e-Science Core Programme. NeSC runs the e-Science Institute, a centre for international meetings and visitors advancing e-Scicence and grids.

NeSC coordinates the training activities in the EGEE Project.

The University of Edinburgh is the leading partner of the ICEAGE Project and will lead the Forum and support and services for teachers and students.

Universitá degli Studi di Catania - University of Catania (UCAT)

Since 2001, the University of Catania has a particular interest in middleware development, training, dissemination and realisation of high-level grid portals and t-Infrastructures.

In collaboration with with the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the University of Catania has designed and developed the international t-Infratructure GILDA, which is a complete laboratory for dissemination and training activities in grid computing.

The University of Catania had also made a significant contribution to the development of the GENIUS grid portal, a high-level user interface to ease the use of grid computing for non-expert scientists. At present, GILDA and GENIUS are by far the most used tools inside the EGEE project for training and porting scientific applications onto e-Infrastructure.

UCAT is the leading partner for t-Infrastructure. It will contribute to the Forum, service to teachers and students as well to the Summer Schools.

Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures (SPACI)

SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures) is a consortium recently established among University of Lecce, University of Calabria, University of Naples Federico II, Hewlett Packard and SPACI s.r.l. society, composed by societies managed by young graduates coming from the Universities of Calabria, Campania and Puglia (Regions of the objective 1), having particular skills in the ICT area, parallel computing, distributed and grid computing. SPACI aims at both scientific and technologic research and advanced training oriented to the development of regions of southern Italy.

SPACI organised the first Summer School and contributes to the Forum.

Conseil Europén pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) - European Organisation for Nuclear Research

CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. CERN is a laboratory where scientists unite to study the building blocks of matter and the forces that hold them together. CERN exists primarily to provide them with the necessary tools. These are accelerators, which accelerate particles to almost the speed of light and detectors to make the particles visible.

Founded in 1954, the laboratory was one of Europe's first joint ventures and includes now 20 Member States.

CERN is one of the largest users of Grid technology and is the leading the EGEE Project consortium.

CERN will support the Forum, services for teachers and students, Summer Schools and t-Infrastructure.

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) - Royal Institute of Technology

KTH is the lead institution for collaboration on grid research funded by the Swedish Research Council.

KTH is represented by PDC, the leading centre for high-performance computing for the Swedish academic community. PDC is a founder member of the Nordic Grid Consortium and the European Grid Support Centre, together with the UK e-Science programme and CERN). PDC collaborates with five other HPC centres in Sweden in the SweGrid project to establish a Swedish grid infrastructure.

Within the EGEE project, PDC leads the overall work on security. In the NextGRID project, PDC participates in the Architecture, Dynamics and Foundations work package, with a security remit.

KTH will lead the organisation of the Summer Schools.

Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Számítástechnikai És Automatizálási Kutató Intézet (SZTAKI) - Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

SZTAKI will be represented by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems which palys a leading role in grid technologies research in Hungary. LPDS lead the Grid Middleware work package of the European SEEGRID project. SZTAKi is also a partner in the EU CoreGrid and GridCoord projects and has led various Hungarian grid projects. SZTAKI is the Central European Regional Training Centre for EGEE and has organised several academic and industrial grid courses.

SZTAKI will organise the thirs Summer School of the ICEAGE Project, provide a t-Infrastructure node and contribute to the Forum and services to teachers and students.