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Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Centrum Badawcze Polskiego Internetu Optycznego / Polish Optical Internet Research Center Street Jana Pawła II 10 61-139 Poznan 1) How to reach PSNC: - https://www.psnc.pl/how-to-reach-us/cbpio/ 2) List of recommended hotels: https://www.psnc.pl/how-to-reach-us/base-of-hotels/ )

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Centrum Badawcze Polskiego Internetu Optycznego / Polish Optical Internet Research Center Street Jana Pawła II 10 61-139 Poznan 1) How to reach PSNC: - https://www.psnc.pl/how-to-reach-us/cbpio/ 2) List of recommended hotels: https://www.psnc.pl/how-to-reach-us/base-of-hotels/
Norbert Meyer (PSNC), Stefan Hanslik (BMBWF)
Description

Note: The venue location and detailed logistics are at the bottom of this page! Registration is now open. 

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) organises two open workshops every year, each under the auspices of the corresponding presidency of the EU Council. The Polish EU Presidency e-IRG Workshop is organised as a hybrid event hosted by PSNC, and will bring together e-Infrastructure stakeholders in Poznan, Poland, as well as online and worldwide. 

The event's overarching theme is "e-Infrastructure activities in the new European Research Area (ERA)", with its opportunities and challenges including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybersecurity. It is reminded that Research Infrastructures, including e-Infrastructures (referred to also as eRIs or digital infrastructures), as well as EOSC, are considered as "ERA structural policies", i.e. long-term policies that are well integrated with national and EU policies.   

A set of sub-topics was developed by the Programme Committee, composed of e-IRG delegations and e-Infrastructure Assembly members, namely: 

  1. Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science, in particular, the role of e-Infrastructures in AI, including the recently awarded AI factories by EuroHPC. 
    • The EU and the Member States/Associated Countries are heavily investing in national and European e-Infrastructures, including High-Performance Computing and AI-facilities. These investments support cutting-edge research and science, reinforcing Europe’s role in global Research Infrastructures. Maintaining the financial, operational, and environmental sustainability of such Research Infrastructures is crucial. This includes investments in energy-efficient infrastructures, ongoing modernisation of systems, and ensuring long-term viability. A new key initiative in this area is the EU Competitiveness Compass, and a set of related Acts and initiatives, which will be presented and discussed.
    • Under this topic developments at EU and national levels will be reviewed, both success stories (e.g. good practices) and also challenges faced, and how these were overcome or not.
  2. Cybersecurity for society and in particular for Research and Science including Research Infrastructures.
    • Security, in all its dimensions, including Information, i.e. Cybersecurity, is one of the Polish EU Presidency's priorities. Horizon Europe is divided into pillars, one of which is Excellent Science, where Research Infrastructures are funded, and another one is Global Challenges, where Civil Security for Society is one of the clusters. Cybersecurity measures are encompassed in this area, and funding for cybersecurity research is run by the EC European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). Furthermore, the NIS-2 directive establishes a unified legal framework to increase cybersecurity in critical sectors across the EU. "It calls on Member States to define national cybersecurity strategies and collaborate with the EU for cross-border reaction and enforcement". The updates on Cybersecurity and NIS-2 will be discussed during the workshop.
    • Under this topic developments at EU and national levels will be reviewed, both success stories (e.g. good practices) and also challenges faced, and how these were overcome or not.
       
  3. EU Data Spaces and EOSC: Preparation for a broader interoperable data ecosystem.
    • Common European Data Spaces will make more data across different thematic fields available for access and reuse in a trustworthy, interoperable and secure environment, building the single market for data, for the benefit not only of researchers, but mainly of EU businesses and citizens. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which is the Data Space for Research and Science, is progressing, enrolling a set of nodes, starting from the EU node, to build up the EOSC federation. The session will discuss the developments of the EU Data Spaces, and in particular the work towards an interoperable data ecosystem. News from the recent EU Data Spaces Symposium will also be reported. 
      Under this topic developments at the EU level across several EU Data Spaces will be reported, focusing on interoperability and the link with EOSC and Open Science, which is another structural policy of the next ERA Policy Agenda (2025-2027) besides Research Infrastructures.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 14:00-18:00

Session 1:  Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science

Session 2 : Cybersecurity for society and in particular for Research and Science

Note: A site visit to PSNC HPC and EOSC data centres will follow

Wednesday 25 June 2024, 09:00-13:30

Session 2: cont'd

Session 3: EU Data Spaces and EOSC: Preparation for a broader interoperable data ecosystem.

 

Looking forward to a fruitful workshop!

Stefan Hanslik, e-IRG Chair

Nortber Meyer, e-IRG co-Chair

Fotis Karayannis, Michael Maragakis, Bernd Saurugger, Jan Wiebelitz, e-IRG Support Project

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2025-03-11 Poznan e-IRG logistics.pdf
Registration
e-IRG Workshop under Polish EU Presidency
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Participants
  • Aleksandra Nowak
  • Alexander van den Hil
  • Andreas Rauber
  • Annabel Grant
  • Bernd Saurugger
  • Bertil Beck
  • Daniel Howard
  • Eoin Kenny
  • Fotis Karayannis
  • Fotis Karayannis
  • Jan Wiebelitz
  • Joseph Van Wezel
  • JYSOO LEE
  • János Mohácsi
  • Maggie Hellström
  • Marcin Plociennik
  • Mario Gomez Geisler
  • Nicole Wyss
  • Panos Argyrakis
  • ROBERT JONES
  • Slaven Mihaljević
  • Sverker Holmgren
  • Tamas Maray
  • tommaso boccali
  • Volker Beckmann
  • Yevhenii Preobrazhenskyi
e-IRG Secretariat
  • Tuesday, June 24
    • Session 1 - Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science: Introduction and Generic (horizontal) aspects - Infrastructures and Policies

      Session 1 - Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science, in particular, the role of e-Infrastructures in AI, including the recently awarded AI factories by EuroHPC.
      The EU and the Member States/Associated Countries are heavily investing in national and European e-Infrastructures, including High-Performance Computing and AI-facilities. These investments support cutting-edge research and science, reinforcing Europe’s role in global Research Infrastructures. Maintaining the financial, operational, and environmental sustainability of such research infrastructures is crucial. This includes investments in energy-efficient infrastructures, ongoing modernisation of systems, and ensuring long-term viability. A new key initiative in this area is the EU Competitiveness Compass, and a set of related Acts and initiatives, which will be presented and discussed.
      Under this topic developments at EU and national levels will be reviewed, both success stories (e.g. good practices) and also challenges faced, and how these were overcome or not in specific countries/regions

      • 1
        Welcome and Introduction
        Speaker: Stefan Hanslik (BMWBF)
      • 2
        Towards a European Strategy for AI in science
        Speaker: Mario GOMEZ GEISLER (EC/DG-RTD E4)
      • 3
        EuroHPC activities on AI infrastructures for Research and Innovation (tbc)
        Speaker: TBC TBC (EuroHPC JU)
      • 4
        Artificial Intelligence in Cambridge - The ai@cam initiative
        Speaker: Jessica Montgomery (University of Cambridge)
      • 5
        Artificial Intelligence and environmental sustainability: The GreenDIGIT perspective
        Speaker: Yuri Demchenko (University of Amsterdam)
    • 3:30 PM
      Coffee break
    • Session 1 - Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science: Thematic (vertical) AI needs and views

      Session 1 - Artificial Intelligence in Research and Science, in particular, the role of e-Infrastructures in AI, including the recently awarded AI factories by EuroHPC.
      The EU and the Member States/Associated Countries are heavily investing in national and European e-Infrastructures, including High-Performance Computing and AI-facilities. These investments support cutting-edge research and science, reinforcing Europe’s role in global Research Infrastructures. Maintaining the financial, operational, and environmental sustainability of such research infrastructures is crucial. This includes investments in energy-efficient infrastructures, ongoing modernisation of systems, and ensuring long-term viability. A new key initiative in this area is the EU Competitiveness Compass, and a set of related Acts and initiatives, which will be presented and discussed.
      Under this topic developments at EU and national levels will be reviewed, both success stories (e.g. good practices) and also challenges faced, and how these were overcome or not in specific countries/regions

      • 6
        International vision on AI from the Humanities/Cultural heritage perspective
        Speaker: Ines Vodopivec (Artificial Intelligence in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (AI4LAM))
      • 7
        European Multilingualism, the use of AI and Large Language Models across Europe; the OpenEuroLLM perspective
        Speaker: Jan Hajic (Charles University)
      • 8
        AI Needs in Compute/Data Intensive Research from High-Energy Physics and Radio Astronomy: The SPECTRUM Project perspective
        Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu)
      • 9
        Panel Discussion
    • 5:05 PM
      Short break between sessions
    • Session 2 - Cybersecurity for society and in particular for Research and Science, including Research Infrastructures: Cybersecurity Day 1

      Session 2 - Cybersecurity for society and in particular for Research and Science, including Research Infrastructures.
      Security, in all its dimensions, including Information, i.e. Cybersecurity is one of the Polish EU Presidency priorities. Horizon Europe is divided into pillars, one of which is Excellent Science (where RIs are funded) and another one being Global Challenges, where Civil Security for Society is one of the clusters. Cybersecurity measures are encompassed in this area, and funding for cybersecurity research is run by the EC European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). Furthermore, the NIS-2 directive establishes a unified legal framework to increase cybersecurity in critical sectors across the EU. "It calls on Member States to define national cybersecurity strategies and collaborate with the EU for cross-border reaction and enforcement". The updates on Cybersecurity and NIS-2 will be discussed during the workshop.
      Under this topic developments at EU and national levels will be reviewed, both success stories (e.g. good practices) and also challenges faced, and how these were overcome or not in specific countries/regions.

      • 10
        Welcome and Introduction
        Speaker: Norbert Meyer (PSNC)
      • 11
        The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)
        Speaker: Luca Tagliaretti (ECCC)
      • 12
        Updates on the NIS-2 directive - EU level
        • a) EU level - The GÉANT paradigm
          Speaker: Alf Moens (GÉANT)
    • 6:15 PM
      Preparation for PSNC site visit
    • 6:30 PM
      Site visit to PSNC HPC systems
    • 8:00 PM
      Dinner (timing to be confirmed) TBC

      TBC
  • Wednesday, June 25
    • Session 2 - Cybersecurity for society and in particular for Research and Science, including Research Infrastructures: Cybersecurity day 2

      Session 2 - Cybersecurity for society and in particular for Research and Science, including Research Infrastructures.
      Security, in all its dimensions, including Information, i.e. Cybersecurity is one of the Polish EU Presidency priorities. Horizon Europe is divided into pillars, one of which is Excellent Science (where RIs are funded) and another one being Global Challenges, where Civil Security for Society is one of the clusters. Cybersecurity measures are encompassed in this area, and funding for cybersecurity research is run by the EC European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). Furthermore, the NIS-2 directive establishes a unified legal framework to increase cybersecurity in critical sectors across the EU. "It calls on Member States to define national cybersecurity strategies and collaborate with the EU for cross-border reaction and enforcement". The updates on Cybersecurity and NIS-2 will be discussed during the workshop.
      Under this topic developments at EU and national levels will be reviewed, both success stories (e.g. good practices) and also challenges faced, and how these were overcome or not in specific countries/regions.

      • 13
        Updates on the NIS-2 directive - National level
        • a) National level - The PSNC paradigm (Poland)
          Speaker: Maciej Milostan (PSNC)
        • b) National level: The CESNET paradigm (Czechia)
          Speaker: Jan Kolouch (tbc) (CESNET)
      • 14
        The CyberSec Digital Hub
        Speaker: Gerard Frankowski (PSNC)
      • 15
        Panel Discussion
    • 10:30 AM
      Coffee break
    • Session 3 - EU Data Spaces and EOSC: Preparation for a broader interoperable data ecosystem: Sub-session 1 - General (horizontal) talks

      Session 3 - EU Data Spaces and EOSC: Preparation for a broader interoperable data ecosystem
      Common European Data Spaces will make more data across different fields available for access and reuse in a trustworthy, interoperable and secure environment building the single market for data, for the benefit not only of researchers, but mainly of EU businesses and citizens. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which is the Data Space for Research and Science, is progressing enrolling a set of nodes, starting from the EU node, to build up the EOSC federation. The session will discuss the developments of the EU Data Spaces, and in particular the work towards an interoperable data ecosystem. News from the recent EU Data Spaces Symposium will also be reported.
      Under this topic, developments at the EU level across several EU Data Spaces will be reported, focusing on interoperability and the link with EOSC and Open Science, which is another structural policy.

      • 16
        Welcome and Introduction
        Speaker: Chris De Loof (BELSPO, BELNET)
      • 17
        Data Spaces and SIMPL
        Speaker: Olivier Rouchon (CNRS)
      • 18
        The Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) and its intersections with the European research community
        Speaker: Savvas Rogotis (BDVA and DSSC)
      • 19
        EOSC and the Data Spaces - The EOSC-A view
        Speaker: Ignacio Blanquer (UPV and EOSC-A)
    • 11:55 AM
      Short break
    • Session 3 - EU Data Spaces and EOSC: Preparation for a broader interoperable data ecosystem: Sub-session 2 - Thematic (vertical) talks and panel

      Session 3 - EU Data Spaces and EOSC: Preparation for a broader interoperable data ecosystem
      Common European Data Spaces will make more data across different fields available for access and reuse in a trustworthy, interoperable and secure environment building the single market for data, for the benefit not only of researchers, but mainly of EU businesses and citizens. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which is the Data Space for Research and Science, is progressing enrolling a set of nodes, starting from the EU node, to build up the EOSC federation. The session will discuss the developments of the EU Data Spaces, and in particular the work towards an interoperable data ecosystem. News from the recent EU Data Spaces Symposium will also be reported.
      Under this topic, developments at the EU level across several EU Data Spaces will be reported, focusing on interoperability and the link with EOSC and Open Science, which is another structural policy.

      • 12:00 PM
        Short break
      • 21
        Europeana and Cultural Heritage initiatives
        Speaker: Ines Vodopivec
      • 22
        ALT EDIC or ECHOES (tbc)
      • 23
        Panel Discussion
    • 1:30 PM
      Lunch break
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