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NGI International Liaison

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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

Name, Country, Institute, Email:

  • Hrachya Astsatryan Armenia IIAP NAS RA hrach@sci.am
  • Antun Balaz Republic of Serbia IPB antun@ipb.ac.rs
  • Petru Bogatencov Moldova RENAM bogatenc@asm.md
  • Peter Bogatencov Moldova RENAM bogatencov@renam.md
  • Isabel Campos Plasencia Spain CSIC isabel@campos-it.es
  • Ian Collier UK STFC ian.collier@stfc.ac.uk
  • Marios Dikaiakos Cyprus UCY mdd@cs.ucy.ac.cy
  • Dobriša Dobrenić Croatia SRCE dobrisa@srce.hr
  • Hakan Bayındır Turkey TUBITAK hakan.bayindir@tubitak.gov.tr
  • Feyza Eryol Turkey TUBITAK feyza.eryol@tubitak.gov.tr
  • Dean Flanders Switzerland SwiNG dean.flanders@fmi.ch
  • Luciano Gaido Italy INFN gaido@to.infn.it
  • Nugzar Gamtsemlidze Georgia GRENA ngamtsemlidze@grena.ge
  • Andrii Golovynskyi Ukraine V. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS of Ukraine golovinsky.andriy@gmail.com
  • Todor Gurov Bulgaria IICT-BAS gurov@bas.bg
  • Ladislav Hluchý Slovakia IISAS hluchy.ui@savba.sk
  • Vicky Huang Taiwan AS vic@twgrid.org
  • Soonwook Hwang South Korea KISTI hwang@kisti.re.kr
  • Nicolai Moldova RENAM nicolai.iliuha@renam.md
  • Nicolai ILIUHA Moldova RENAM nick@renam.md
  • Emir Imamagic Croatia SRCE eimamagi@srce.hr
  • Boro Jakimovski Macedonia UKIM boro.jakimovski@finki.ukim.mk
  • Jan Jona Javorsek Slovenia JSI jona.javorsek@ijs.si
  • Bob Jones (CERN) CERN robert.jones@cern.ch
  • Jik-Soo Kim South Korea KISTI jiksoo.kim@kisti.re.kr
  • Aneta Karaivanova Bulgaria IICT-BAS anet@parallel.bas.bg
  • Kostas Koumantaros Greece GRNET kkoum@grnet.gr
  • Ivana Křenková Czech Republic CESNET krenkova@ics.muni.cz
  • Ramaz Kvatadze Georgia GRENA ramaz@grena.ge
  • Simon C. Lin Taiwan AS simon.lin@twgrid.org
  • Robert Lovas Hungary MTA SZTAKI robert.lovas@sztaki.mta.hu
  • Dana Ludviga Latvia IMCS-UL dana.ludviga@sigmanet.lv
  • Luděk Matyska Czech Republic CESNET ludek@ics.muni.cz
  • Steven Newhouse (EMBL-EBI) EMBL steven.newhouse@ebi.ac.uk
  • Mihnea Dulea Romania Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering <request contact from ucst@egi.eu>
  • Laura Perini Italy INFN laura.perini@mi.infn.it
  • João António Tomásio Pina Portugal LIP jpina@lip.pt
  • Tomasz Piontek Poland ICBP piontek@man.poznan.pl
  • Maria Poveda Cyprus UCY mpoveda@cs.ucy.ac.cy
  • Genevieve Romier France CNRS genevieve.romier@cc.in2p3.fr
  • Serge A. Salamanka Belorus UIIP NASB salamanka@newman.bas-net.by
  • Davide Salomoni Italy INFN davide.salomoni@cnaf.infn.it
  • Mariusz Sterzel Poland CYFRONET m.sterzel@cyfronet.pl
  • Jelena Tamuliene Lithuania VU jelena.tamuliene@tfai.vu.lt
  • Onur Temizsoylu Turkey TUBITAK onur.temizsoylu@tubitak.gov.tr
  • Leo Trukšāns Latvia IMCS-UL leot@linux.edu.lv
  • Stephane GERARD Belgium VUB stephane.gerard@vub.be
  • Olivier Devroede Belgium VUB olivier.devroede@vub.be
  • Alex Upton Switzerland ETHZ alex@ethz.ch
  • Martin Laimonis Veicherts Denmark UCPH mave@nbi.ku.dk
  • Ilyin Viacheslav Russia E-ARENA ilyin@e-arena.ru
  • Ilyin Viacheslav Russia SINP MSU ilyin@sinp.msu.ru
  • Korenkov Vladimir Russia JINR korenkov@cv.jinr.ru
  • Dusan Vudragovic Republic of Serbia IPB dusan@ipb.ac.rs
  • Anders Waananen Denmark UCPH waananen@nbi.dk
  • Zivan Yoash Israel IUCC zivany@mail.iucc.ac.il

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)