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The NGI International Liaisons (NILs) have a key role in the EGI community. Working together with teams in EGI.eu and in other NGIs, the NILs links the strategic non-operational activities taking place in their own NGI with the rest of the EGI community. With the NIL acting as a spearhead, each country is able to connect its non-operational activities to the European landscape, and demonstrate their added value to new communities and to other NGIs.
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EGI forms and implements its [http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy Engagement Strategy] within the NGIs through the NILs, because NILs connect the following activities from the national level to the European level:
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* Outreach
* Marketing and communication
* Training
* Proactive outreach and support for new communities


== Introduction ==


== The NIL role and about their coordination within EGI ==
EGI members (NGIs and EIROs) as well as EGI partner states/regions delegate International Liaisons to EGI. These International Laisions (NILs) have a key networking role in the EGI community. NILs work together with the EGI Foundation and with each other to link non-operational activities from their own country/institute/region with the rest of the EGI community. One of the most important of these non-operational activities is Engagement with new communities. With the NIL acting as a spearhead, each country (or EIRO or region) is able to connect its non-operational activities to the European landscape, and receive information on how the European landscape evolves. NILs demonstrate the added value of the country to new communities and to other NGIs. NILs connect the following activities from the national level to the European level (NILs don't necessarily perform these activities, but are connected to the people who do within the local NGI):
* The up-to-date list and contact of the NILs are available on the EGI website: http://www.egi.eu/community/ngis/NILs.html
* The NILs are subscribed to the <ngi-international-liaisons@mailman.egi.eu> email list which is used for coordination and discussion of activities. List archive is available at https://mailman.egi.eu/mailman/private/ngi-international-liaisons/.
* The NILs are involved in the development and implementation of EGI's Engagement Strategy (http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy), ie. reaching out to new communities, collecting and analysing their requirements, setting up support for them.
** ''Abstract of the EGI Engagement Strategy document:'' EGI Engagement reaches out to scientific communities, to national initiatives, to the long tail of science as well as to SMEs and industry and supports them in tackling scientific challenges using reliable and innovative ICT services and solutions. The Engagement Strategy coordinates EGI members’ activities to accomplish this complex mission, ultimately contributing to the European effort of building a sustainable digital e-infrastructure ecosystem for research. The Engagement Strategy document describes the specific goals of the EGI engagement activity, details the various tasks that this activity involves, provides information about the human networks and online resources and tools that help the community implement this strategy, as well as provides an action plan for the upcoming months. 


* Regular teleconferences are organised for the NILs (typically once a month). These are titled 'Engagement meetings'. Future and past events are available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=36.
* Proactive outreach to new communities
* Face-to-face meetings are organised twice per year for the NILs. These meetings are co-located with the main EGI Forums/Conferences (one in the spring and one in the autumn).
* Promotion and communication of NGI services, EGI services
* NILs are participating in the creation and implementation of short, focussed projects, called Virtual Teams (Further information: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Virtual_teams).
* Training, workshops
* The NIL activity is coordinated by the Technical Outreach Manager of EGI.eu, Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).
* Support for new users/communities


EGI defines and implements its [http://go.egi.eu/engagementplan Engagement Plan] with the help of the NILs.


== Resources that are available for the NILs to be successful in reaching out and supporting new communities ==
== The NIL role and about their coordination within EGI  ==


* Repository of communication and marketing materials and templates: http://www.egi.eu/news-and-media/publications/  
*The NILs are subscribed to the &lt;ngi-international-liaisons@mailman.egi.eu&gt; email list which is used for coordination and discussion of activities. List archive is available at https://mailman.egi.eu/mailman/private/ngi-international-liaisons/.
* Registry of upcoming events that can be relevant for EGI members to attend and promote EGI (with planned contributions from EGI): http://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Research_Conferences
*The NILs are involved in the development and implementation of EGI's Engagement Strategy (http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy), ie. reaching out to new communities, collecting and analysing their requirements, setting up support for them.
* To see an up-to-date picture of the support cases that are currently in the Engagement workflow, please go to http://go.egi.eu/technicalsupportcases. (An RT queue with public access)
**''Abstract of the EGI Engagement Strategy document:'' EGI Engagement reaches out to scientific communities, to national initiatives, to the long tail of science as well as to SMEs and industry and supports them in tackling scientific challenges using reliable and innovative ICT services and solutions. The Engagement Strategy coordinates EGI members’ activities to accomplish this complex mission, ultimately contributing to the European effort of building a sustainable digital e-infrastructure ecosystem for research. The Engagement Strategy document describes the specific goals of the EGI engagement activity, details the various tasks that this activity involves, provides information about the human networks and online resources and tools that help the community implement this strategy, as well as provides an action plan for the upcoming months.
* How to capture details of a new engagement case that should be followed up in EGI:  
 
** Capture the case in the technical-support-cases RT queue, as described in this document: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2478 OR
*Regular teleconferences are organised for the NILs - Currently with a bi-monthly freqency. Future and past events are available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=36. The meetings provide an important forum to update each other about recent development and future plans concerning national and European-level community outreach and engagement activities. (A 5 min. slot is offered for every NIL to report at these meetings) 
** Report back during the regular (monthly) Engagement board teleconferences OR Send details in email to support@egi.eu  
*Face-to-face meetings are organised twice per year for the NILs. These meetings are co-located with the main EGI Forums/Conferences (one in the spring and one in the autumn).
* Email lists:
<!--*NILs are participating in the creation and implementation of short, focussed projects, called Virtual Teams (Further information: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Virtual_teams). -->
** NILs: ngi-international-liaisons@mailman.egi.eu  
* Newsletter emails are sent to the NILs' email list (~every 2/3 weeks) by Gergely Sipos to inform the NILs about the latest news from the EGI engagement and user support area.
** UCB: UCB-discuss@mailman.egi.eu
*The NIL activity is coordinated by the Customer and Technical Outreach Manager of EGI.eu, Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).
** Leaders of EGI-Engage Competence Centres: egi-engage-wp6@mailman.egi.eu  
 
* NIL table: http://www.egi.eu/community/ngis/NILs.html
== Resources for the NILs - To be successful in reaching out and supporting new communities  ==
* Requirements Tracking: The evolution of the European Grid Infrastructure is driven by the users. Therefore capturing and following up feedback from users reached during Engagement is a key goal for all the three phases of the Engagement activity.  
 
** Capture the support cases in tickets: http://go.egi.eu/technicalsupportcases. If no ticket exists for the case (i.e. community/project), then register it. For further information please refer to https://documents.egi.eu/document/2478.  
*EGI Engagement plan: http://go.egi.eu/engagementplan
** To gather requirements from EGI user communities in a systematic way, a standard template has been designed. The template and captured requirements are available at https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Communties_Requirements.
*EGI Service Catalogue: https://www.egi.eu/services/
* Templates for Virtual Team projects:
*Communication and dissemination materials: http://www.egi.eu/news-and-media/publications/  
** Description of Virtual Teams: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_teams
*Recent posters:
** Project initiation document template, and project final report template: https://documents.egi.eu/document/1991
** EGI Cloud (2017-Dec, DI4R): https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3455/contribution/31
** VT project wiki page template: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Template_Wiki_page
** EGI Marketplace (2017-Dec, DI4R): https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3455/contribution/97
* EGI presentations (reusable examples):
**Overview of EGI operational activities (presentation by Matthew Viljoen, April 2018): https://www.slideshare.net/TheEOSChubproject/overview-of-infrastructure-and-operations-plans-matthew-viljoen
**Overview of EGI community engagement and support activities (presentation by Gergely Sipos, April 2018): https://www.slideshare.net/TheEOSChubproject/egi-engagement-plan-gergely-sipos
** Overview of the EOSC-hub project and its services (2018-Mar, ISGC): http://indico4.twgrid.org/indico/event/4/session/8/contribution/177
** EGI overview for a new community (presentation that was delivered by Gergely Sipos in May 2017): https://documents.egi.eu/document/3119
** European Community Engagement within EGI (presentation delivered at NeIC2017 by Gergely Sipos): https://documents.egi.eu/document/3126
* Find relevant EGI-NGI presentations under the 'User engagement and support' topic in the EGI Document Database: https://documents.egi.eu/public/ListBy?topicid=65
*Forms and templates to capture requirements from users/communities: http://go.egi.eu/requirements
*Registry of upcoming EGI events: https://www.egi.eu/category/events/
*Community-curated list of external events that can be relevant for EGI members to attend and promote EGI to new user communities: https://wiki.eosc-hub.eu/display/EOSC/Events
<!--*Snapshot of the support cases that are currently in the Engagement workflow, please go to http://go.egi.eu/technicalsupportcases. (An RT queue with public access)
** Send an email to support@egi.eu to add/update items in the list
*How to capture details of a new engagement case that should be followed up in EGI:  
**Capture the case in the technical-support-cases RT queue, as described in this document: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2478 OR  
**Report back during the regular (monthly) Engagement board teleconferences OR Send details in email to support@egi.eu -->
*Email lists:  
**NILs: ngi-international-liaisons@mailman.egi.eu  
**User Community Board (representatives of largest VO communities): UCB-discuss@mailman.egi.eu  
<!--**Leaders of EGI-Engage Competence Centres: egi-engage-wp6@mailman.egi.eu -->
<!--*Templates for Virtual Team projects:
**Description of Virtual Teams: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_teams
**Project initiation document template, and project final report template: https://documents.egi.eu/document/1991
**VT project wiki page template: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Template_Wiki_page-->
 
== List of NILs ==
 
===International Liaisons from EGI members (NGIs and EIROs) ===
* CERN:
** Bob Jones
* Belgium:
** Stephane Gerard, VUB
** Olivier Devroede, VUB
* Bulgaria:
** Todor Gurov, IICT-BAS
** Aneta Karaivanova, IICT-BAS
* Croatia:
** Dobriša Dobrenić, SRCE
** Emir Imamagic, SRCE
* Czech Republic:
** Ivana Křenková, CESNET
** Luděk Matyska, CESNET
* Estonia
** Ivar Koppel, University of Tartu
* France
** Genevieve Romier, CNRS
* Republic of North Macedonia
** Anastas Mishev, UKIM
** Boro Jakimovski, UKIM
* Greece
** Kostas Koumantaros, GRNET
* Italy
** Luciano Gaido, INFN
** Laura Perini, INFN
** Davide Salomoni, INFN
* Macedonia
** Anastas Mishev, UKIM
* Poland
** Tomasz Piontek, ICBP
** Mariusz Sterzel, CYFRONET
* Portugal
** João António Tomásio Pina, LIP
* Romania
**  Mihnea Dulea, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
* Slovakia
** Ladislav Hluchý, IISAS
* Slovenia
** Jan Jona Javorsek, JSI
* Spain
** Isabel Campos Plasencia, CSIC
* Switzerland
** Alex Upton Switzerland ETHZ
** Dean Flanders, SwiNG
* Turkey
** Hakan Bayındır, TUBITAK
** Feyza Eryol, TUBITAK
** Onur Temizsoylu, TUBITAK
* United Kingdom
** Ian Collier, STFC
 
===EGI members without a NIL===
* Netherlands
* Sweden
 
===Liaison contact points in other countries and regions ===
* Armenia:
** Hrachya Astsatryan, IIAP NAS RA
* Belorus
** Serge A. Salamanka, UIIP NASB
* Cyprus
** Marios Dikaiakos, UCY
** Maria Poveda, UCY
* Estonia, ETAIS
** Ivar Koppel, University of Tartu
* Denmark, UCPH
** Martin Laimonis Veicherts, UCPH
** Anders Waananen,
* Georgia
** Nugzar Gamtsemlidze, GRENA
** Ramaz Kvatadze, GRENA
* Hungary
** Robert Lovas, MTA SZTAKI
* Israel
** Zivan Yoash, IUCC
* Latvia
** Dana Ludviga, IMCS-UL
** Leo Trukšāns, IMCS-UL
* Lithuania
** Jelena Tamuliene, VU
* Moldova
** Petru Bogatencov, RENAM
** Nicolai Iliuha, RENAM
* Republic of Serbia
** Antun Balaz, IPB
** Dusan Vudragovic, IPB
* Russia
** Ilyin Viacheslav, E-ARENA
** Korenkov Vladimir, JINR
* South Korea
** Soonwook Hwang, KISTI
** Jik-Soo Kim, KISTI
* Taiwan
** Vicky Huang, AS
** Simon C. Lin, AS
* Ukraine
** Andrii Golovynskyi, V. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS of Ukraine
* EMBL-EBI
** Steven Newhouse
 
== Confirmed contacts to handle EGI Service Orders ==
* France: NIL (see above)
* Turkey: grid-teknik@ulakbim.gov.tr (This includes also the NILs)
* Italy: Luciano Gaido, Davide Salomoni and Laura Perini (see above)
* Belgium: Stephane GERARD and Olivier Devroede (see above)
 
 
<!--* Slovakia: No manpower for this (June 2017)
* Spain: Only for biodiversity: Jesus Marco (June 2017)-->
 
== Meetings and Minutes ==
 
*23 July 2014: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2278/ Minutes]
*18 September 2014: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2183/ Minutes]
* 22 October 2014: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2184/ Minutes]
* 19 November 2014: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2185/ Minutes]
* 17 December 2014: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2186/ Minutes]
* 06 July 2015: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2589/ Minutes]
* 07 September 2015: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2645/ Minutes]
* 05 October 2015: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2648/ Minutes]
* 07 December 2015: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2650/ Minutes]
* 01 Februrary 2016: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/2792/ Minutes]
* 09 June 2017: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/3377/ Minutes]
* 04 October 2017: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/3503/ Minutes]
* 12 December 2017: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/3539/ Minutes]
* 16 February 2018: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/3618/ Minutes]
* 14 May 2018: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/3986/ Minutes]
* 02 October 2018: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/4262/ Minutes]
* 12 December 2018: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/4371/ Minutes]
* 25 May 2019: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/4657/ Minutes]
* 26 March 2020: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/5059/ Minutes]
* 24 July 2020: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/5186/ Minutes]
* 30 September 2020: [https://indico.egi.eu/event/5252/]
 
== News & Actions ==
* EGI Conference 2020: https://indico.egi.eu/event/5000
* Call for use cases for the "design your e-infrastructure" workshop is open (see dedicated section in the conference page)
* Call for joining the EGI network of trainers is open (email was sent to the mailing-list)
* Call for topics for the 2nd. part of the EGI webinars series is open: https://indico.egi.eu/event/5186/attachments/13058/15564/go

Latest revision as of 10:08, 7 December 2020


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Introduction

EGI members (NGIs and EIROs) as well as EGI partner states/regions delegate International Liaisons to EGI. These International Laisions (NILs) have a key networking role in the EGI community. NILs work together with the EGI Foundation and with each other to link non-operational activities from their own country/institute/region with the rest of the EGI community. One of the most important of these non-operational activities is Engagement with new communities. With the NIL acting as a spearhead, each country (or EIRO or region) is able to connect its non-operational activities to the European landscape, and receive information on how the European landscape evolves. NILs demonstrate the added value of the country to new communities and to other NGIs. NILs connect the following activities from the national level to the European level (NILs don't necessarily perform these activities, but are connected to the people who do within the local NGI):

  • Proactive outreach to new communities
  • Promotion and communication of NGI services, EGI services
  • Training, workshops
  • Support for new users/communities

EGI defines and implements its Engagement Plan with the help of the NILs.

The NIL role and about their coordination within EGI

  • The NILs are subscribed to the <ngi-international-liaisons@mailman.egi.eu> email list which is used for coordination and discussion of activities. List archive is available at https://mailman.egi.eu/mailman/private/ngi-international-liaisons/.
  • The NILs are involved in the development and implementation of EGI's Engagement Strategy (http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy), ie. reaching out to new communities, collecting and analysing their requirements, setting up support for them.
    • Abstract of the EGI Engagement Strategy document: EGI Engagement reaches out to scientific communities, to national initiatives, to the long tail of science as well as to SMEs and industry and supports them in tackling scientific challenges using reliable and innovative ICT services and solutions. The Engagement Strategy coordinates EGI members’ activities to accomplish this complex mission, ultimately contributing to the European effort of building a sustainable digital e-infrastructure ecosystem for research. The Engagement Strategy document describes the specific goals of the EGI engagement activity, details the various tasks that this activity involves, provides information about the human networks and online resources and tools that help the community implement this strategy, as well as provides an action plan for the upcoming months.
  • Regular teleconferences are organised for the NILs - Currently with a bi-monthly freqency. Future and past events are available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=36. The meetings provide an important forum to update each other about recent development and future plans concerning national and European-level community outreach and engagement activities. (A 5 min. slot is offered for every NIL to report at these meetings)
  • Face-to-face meetings are organised twice per year for the NILs. These meetings are co-located with the main EGI Forums/Conferences (one in the spring and one in the autumn).
  • Newsletter emails are sent to the NILs' email list (~every 2/3 weeks) by Gergely Sipos to inform the NILs about the latest news from the EGI engagement and user support area.
  • The NIL activity is coordinated by the Customer and Technical Outreach Manager of EGI.eu, Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).

Resources for the NILs - To be successful in reaching out and supporting new communities

List of NILs

International Liaisons from EGI members (NGIs and EIROs)

  • CERN:
    • Bob Jones
  • Belgium:
    • Stephane Gerard, VUB
    • Olivier Devroede, VUB
  • Bulgaria:
    • Todor Gurov, IICT-BAS
    • Aneta Karaivanova, IICT-BAS
  • Croatia:
    • Dobriša Dobrenić, SRCE
    • Emir Imamagic, SRCE
  • Czech Republic:
    • Ivana Křenková, CESNET
    • Luděk Matyska, CESNET
  • Estonia
    • Ivar Koppel, University of Tartu
  • France
    • Genevieve Romier, CNRS
  • Republic of North Macedonia
    • Anastas Mishev, UKIM
    • Boro Jakimovski, UKIM
  • Greece
    • Kostas Koumantaros, GRNET
  • Italy
    • Luciano Gaido, INFN
    • Laura Perini, INFN
    • Davide Salomoni, INFN
  • Macedonia
    • Anastas Mishev, UKIM
  • Poland
    • Tomasz Piontek, ICBP
    • Mariusz Sterzel, CYFRONET
  • Portugal
    • João António Tomásio Pina, LIP
  • Romania
    • Mihnea Dulea, Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • Slovakia
    • Ladislav Hluchý, IISAS
  • Slovenia
    • Jan Jona Javorsek, JSI
  • Spain
    • Isabel Campos Plasencia, CSIC
  • Switzerland
    • Alex Upton Switzerland ETHZ
    • Dean Flanders, SwiNG
  • Turkey
    • Hakan Bayındır, TUBITAK
    • Feyza Eryol, TUBITAK
    • Onur Temizsoylu, TUBITAK
  • United Kingdom
    • Ian Collier, STFC

EGI members without a NIL

  • Netherlands
  • Sweden

Liaison contact points in other countries and regions

  • Armenia:
    • Hrachya Astsatryan, IIAP NAS RA
  • Belorus
    • Serge A. Salamanka, UIIP NASB
  • Cyprus
    • Marios Dikaiakos, UCY
    • Maria Poveda, UCY
  • Estonia, ETAIS
    • Ivar Koppel, University of Tartu
  • Denmark, UCPH
    • Martin Laimonis Veicherts, UCPH
    • Anders Waananen,
  • Georgia
    • Nugzar Gamtsemlidze, GRENA
    • Ramaz Kvatadze, GRENA
  • Hungary
    • Robert Lovas, MTA SZTAKI
  • Israel
    • Zivan Yoash, IUCC
  • Latvia
    • Dana Ludviga, IMCS-UL
    • Leo Trukšāns, IMCS-UL
  • Lithuania
    • Jelena Tamuliene, VU
  • Moldova
    • Petru Bogatencov, RENAM
    • Nicolai Iliuha, RENAM
  • Republic of Serbia
    • Antun Balaz, IPB
    • Dusan Vudragovic, IPB
  • Russia
    • Ilyin Viacheslav, E-ARENA
    • Korenkov Vladimir, JINR
  • South Korea
    • Soonwook Hwang, KISTI
    • Jik-Soo Kim, KISTI
  • Taiwan
    • Vicky Huang, AS
    • Simon C. Lin, AS
  • Ukraine
    • Andrii Golovynskyi, V. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS of Ukraine
  • EMBL-EBI
    • Steven Newhouse

Confirmed contacts to handle EGI Service Orders

  • France: NIL (see above)
  • Turkey: grid-teknik@ulakbim.gov.tr (This includes also the NILs)
  • Italy: Luciano Gaido, Davide Salomoni and Laura Perini (see above)
  • Belgium: Stephane GERARD and Olivier Devroede (see above)


Meetings and Minutes

News & Actions

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