The new EU-funded project D4Science-II ('Data infrastructure ecosystem for science') has held its kick-off meeting from 13 to 16 October in Pisa, Italy. It is set to establish 'virtual research environments' that will offer significantly enhanced services to scientists without high development and maintenance costs. [...]

The Rai Tre's Okkupati show dedicated its 3rd August emission to the ITECHSPAZIO program. Presenting this program from the BIC Lazio (Bussiness Innovation Centre of Lazio Region) and the European Space Agency (ESA), the broadcast shows the integrated pre-incubation and incubation actions that enable the transformation of advance research ideas and concepts into successful business ventures. Terradue was the first company selected and shown as a successful example of the ITECHSPAZIO program. [...]

During the 3rd through 5th of June, 2008, the BEinGRID project will be hosting its Industry Days in Barcelona, Spain, in a shared venue at the Barceló Hotel Sants with the 23rd Open Grid Forum Conference (OGF23). The event will highlight the best of BEinGRID, the European Union’s largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research through the sixth research Framework Programme (FP6), including selected demos of the current 18 Business Experiments, as well as key guest speakers from the software and services industry. [...]

The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate, but it must be easily accessible in order to apply it to the global needs relating to the state of the Earth. GENESI-DR (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories), an ESA-led, European Commission (EC)-funded two-year project, is taking the lead in providing reliable, easy, long-term access to Earth Science data via the Internet. [...]

The EC-GIS workshop is an annual workshop series held by the European Commission to bring together large-scale public providers of geodata across Europe. This was a special conference, held in Porto and being the first since the INSPIRE Directive establishing a Spatial Data Infrastructure in Europe became part of European law. [...]

BEinGRID, Business Experiments in GRID, is the European Union’s largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research, part of the EU. Terradue is involved in Business Experiment 7 dedicated to Earth Observation where gridify is also used. The objective of this experiment is the implementation of an example of a class of services which require large and near real time data access and complex processing. The products are global Earth coverage products that respond to emerging science and institutional environmental needs. The gridify creates a application environment where near real time operation can be controlled, monitored and accessed. [...]