e-IRG Workshop under Swedish EU Presidency

e-IRG will celebrate its 20 years anniversary since the first e-IRG workshop in June 2003 in Athens with a dedicated session. The session will have a short overview on the historical evolution of e-IRG, its contribution and impact to the current e-infrastructure landscape in Europe and beyond, and then focus on the key issues that need to be dealt with in the years ahead. This will include all e-Infrastructure areas and their tight cooperation for the benefit of the end users, such as leading-edge hyperconnectivity via GEANT and the NRENs, EOSC with its underlying federated European and national e-Infrastructures including NGIs, and the needed steps for EOSC to become an indispensable tool for both the end users and providers, the cutting-edge EuroHPC supercomputing and quantum communications/computing infrastructure and services ecosystem, and finally the Common European Data Spaces and their federation via the SIMPL middleware. The vision of e-IRG on "facilitating integration in the area of European e-Infrastructures and connected services, within and between member states, at the European level and globally", not only continues to apply, but in fact is timelier than ever, requiring strong interplay among all e-Infrastructures stakeholders.