Dissemination Workshop of the study 'Developing impact measures for e-Infrastructures'

The study, launched by the EC Directorate General Information Society and Media, was aimed at developing and testing a framework for assessing the development and impact of e-Infrastructures in Europe. This effort will help shaping the support for development of the European science and research landscape successfully towards e-Sciences for which e-Infrastructures are one of the most important key elements. For developing the framework we carried out a survey of the EC-funded e-Infrastructure projects as well as several case studies. The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss and validate the findings of the study and the resulting monitoring system as well as its policy implications. This will be done in three steps: first, study results, including methodology and results of the evaluation, will be presented and discussed. Secondly, invited experts and stakeholders will give their view on the results and possible conclusions. Finally all results of the day will be discussed in an open forum offering participants the possibility to comment on the results and to contribute to their further development. We would be pleased to welcome you at this event which will give you the opportunity to actively participate in the development of e-Infrastructures in Europe.

We would highly appreciate your participation in the workshop and kindly ask you for your confirmation by February 15th, 2012. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Brussels