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Dutch e-IRG semester Workshop

9 December 2025
SURF, Amsterdam
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

e-IRG Secretariat

Session

Paradigms of e-Infrastructures – Different Approaches and Better Coordination

9 Dec 2025, 13:30
SURF, Amsterdam

SURF, Amsterdam

SURF Science Park 140 1098 XG Amsterdam Telephone: +31 88 787 30 00

Description

National e-Infrastructures (e.g., NRENs, National Computing Centres, National Open Science Initiatives/national EOSC nodes and National Data Service centres) all share the overarching mission of providing a robust digital foundation for education, science, and innovation. Yet, their organisational models and portfolios are increasingly diverse. Some countries have adopted a more centralised approach (i.e. “full stack” approach), offering a comprehensive range of services from networking and computing to data and trust infrastructures. Others deliberately focus on specific components such as networking, computing or data/open science, leaving complementary elements to other organisations. Interactions among e-Infrastructure components are also vital for the end users, and how these connections play out at both, the national and pan-European levels.
This session will examine the different paradigms shaping national e-Infrastructures, the cooperation level at European level among the major European horizontal (i.e. generic or domain agnostic) e-Infrastructures (i.e., GÉANT, EGI, EUDAT, EOSC, EuroHPC, OpenAIRE and PRACE), as well as between thematic Research Infrastructures/e-Infrastructures and generic ones, and provide insights into how different organisational models impact service delivery, interoperability, and Europe’s collective ability to support world-class research and innovation.
Topics to be discussed include the following debates:
What are the strengths and weaknesses of centralised versus distributed/multi-actor models in national organisations? And how do national strategies influence the balance between centralisation and diversity? What lessons can be drawn from countries where multiple organisations coexist, each serving a part of the research and education landscape?
What is the level of coordination among the European horizontal e-Infrastructures? What is the e-Infrastructure Assembly progress and has it contributed to better overall coordination for the benefit of end users?
What is the level of coordination among the horizontal (domain-agnostic) EU e-Infrastructures and thematic (domain-specific) Research Infrastructures/e-Infrastructures?
The session will bring together perspectives from national and EU policymakers, horizontal and thematic infrastructure providers, and academia to reflect on how better coordination can be achieved for the benefit of the users.

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