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  • Effectiveness — Extent to which the goals and expectations connected are met
  • Efficiency — Degree of ability to meet goals and expectations with minimum consumption of resources
  • EGI Associated Participant — NGIs, EIROs, ERICs and such other legal entities, in their own capacity or as representative of a consortium, that contribute to the objective of the foundation. They do not have voting rights in the EGI Council and cannot bid to deliver internal services of the EGI Foundation.
  • EGI Community — The EGI Federation plus the served research communities, the technology providers or any other organisation linked via an agreement with the EGI Foundation and contributing to the mission of the EGI Federation
  • EGI Core — Federation and management platform for the EGI Federation necessary for the coordinated provisioning of the EGI infrastructure. The EGI Core enables service providers to harmonise interfaces and integrate into a unified hub, while simultaneously engaging with research communities to comprehend their needs, facilitate easier access, and promote innovation. The EGI Core supports the objectives of the EGI Federation strategy and of the EGI Service Strategy. Service components are grouped in the EGI
  • EGI Council — Supervisory authority consisting of one representative for each Participant and Associated Participant of the EGI Foundation
  • EGI Federation — EGI Foundation, EGI Foundation Participants and Associated Participants, their linked organisations (e.g. service and resource providers) represented within EGI Foundation that contribute to the objectives of the foundation
  • EGI Federation Core — EGI Core components delivered by EGI Participants or by their represented organisations.
  • EGI Foundation — The legal entity whose objective is to coordinate and develop, in collaboration with its Participants, the EGI infrastructure that provides long-term distributed compute and storage resources for performing research and innovation activities.
  • EGI Foundation Core — EGI Core components delivered by staff of the EGI Foundation.
  • EGI Infrastructure — The digital infrastructure resulting from the federation of EGI Participants' facilities providing advanced computing services for research and innovation.
  • EGI Participant — NGIs, EIROs, ERICs and such other legal entities, in their own capacity or as a representative of a consortium, that contributes to the objective of the foundation. Among the various benefits, they have voting rights in the EGI Council and they can bid to deliver internal services of the EGI Foundation. 
  • e-Infrastructure — Combination of digital technology, computational resources, and communications to support collaborative work and research
  • Escalation — Change of responsibility for a case (such as an incident, service request, problem or change) or activity to another individual or group
  • EUGridPMA — The EUGridPMA (European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication) is the international organisation to coordinate the trust fabric for e-Science grid authentication in Europe. It collaborates with the regional peers APGridPMA for the Asia-Pacific and The Americas Grid PMA in the International Grid Trust Federation https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/IGTF.
  • European Intergovernmental Research Organisation — A legal organisation and member of the EIROforum that has extensive expertise in the areas of basic research and the management of large, international infrastructures, facilities and research programmes.
  • European Open Science Cloud — Initiative to offer researchers a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.
  • European Research Area — A unified research area open to the world based on the Internal Market, in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely and through which the Union and its Member States strengthen their scientific and technological bases, their competitiveness and their capacity to collectively address grand challenges.

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