The initiative brings together 19 partners from 10 countries in the South-East European region and will set the framework for the adoption of a common regional agenda for eInfrastructure. SEERA-EI receives EC support through FP7 under the "Research Infrastructures" action.

Planned Project Activities

Specifically, the project will gather and exchange information regarding current e- Infrastructure programmes, and a state-of-the-art analysis will be carried out. Through the analysis, a set of best practices and guidelines for national eInfrastructure programmes will be produced, and areas for joint regional activities will be identified, ranging from short-term soft actions, mid-term policylevel actions, to preparatory activities for long-term actions.

Communication Platform for eInfrastructure Programme Managers in SEE

One of the project's first activities was the establishment of a platform for information exchange on eInfrastructure initiatives in order to enhance communication among national-level programme managers in South East Europe.
The platform consists of two core means of communication: digital and face-to-face. The digital communication tools include project mailing lists, project private and public website, and specifically the dynamic communication tools including wiki, online forum, and survey tool, allowing easy and dynamic access and editing of information.

The face-to-face programme managers’ networking meetings are held collocated with project steering committee meetings, and are supported by the tools including calendar and agenda tools. SEERA-EI has successfully carried out three faceto- face networking meetings in Athens, Bucharest and Belgrade, that will be followed by seven more
meetings, hosted in each country of the SEERA-EI consortium.

Find out more about SEERA-EI on http://www.seera-ei.eu/.

Read the first project newsletter on http://www.seera-ei.eu/images/stories/pr/SEERAEI-Newsletter1-April%202010.pdf or the project brochure.

Source: http://seera-ei.eu, as accessed on May 5, 2010.