NGI International Liaison

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.

EGI forms and implements its Engagement Strategy within the NGIs through the NILs, because NILs connect the following activities from the national level to the European level:

• Outreach
• Marketing and communication
• Training
• Proactive outreach and support for new communities

Additional information about the NIL role and about their coordination within EGI:

• 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.
• 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).
• 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).
• The NIL activity is coordinated by the Technical Outreach Manager of EGI.eu, Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu).