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Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration
Facilitating development and operation of high-quality e-Infrastructure solutions
of joint Nordic interest
2001 2002 201220062003
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Mission
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NeIC ‘Owners’
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NeIC Budget 2014 (k€)
NordForsk 1 289
Denmark 395
Finland 395
Norway 395
Sweden 395
Iceland 23
In kind from partners 1 263
NeIC Board
GENArea Coordinator
ADMArea Coordinator
NT1Area Coordinator
NeIC Director
BMSArea Coordinator
Project
User Forum Project
Project
Project
Provider Forum Project
Project
Project
User Forum Project
Operations
Operations
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Some Operational Principles
• Openness, on – Activity initiation process– Collaboration model
• Communication, by means of– A common project-based model– Systematic stakeholder engagement– e-tools that are being used (wikis, chat rooms, AC,
…)– Face-to-face
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NeIC All Hands 27-30 Jan. 2015, Lillehammer
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Two modes of project initiation
Top-down: by research councils or e-infra providers
Bottom-up: by research communities
NeIC
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Collaborator
NeIC XT
Stakeholder forum
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YES NO
Co-funding partners
YES NO
We have a project!
YES
Idea
Memo
Project directive
Rev. project directive
Collaboration agreement
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NeIC uses the Tieto PPS model
• Tieto: Major IT services company• PPS = Practical Project Management (“Styrning”) • Comprehensive model, customizable to any size project• Used by big international enterprises• Available across all Nordic countries
One common project-language and project-culture for NeIC
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Collaboration model
Service Agreements
Employer Institution:
Project Manager
Employer Institution:
Project Personnel
Employer Institution:
Project Personnel
PartnerPartner
NeIC
Partner
NeIC – on behalf of the partnership
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Project organization
Steering groupCo-funding partners, NeIC
Project manager
Project team
Reference group(stakeholders)Reference group
(stakeholders)Reference group(-s)Stakeholders
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Projects – bread and butter
• Project plan– Developed by project manager – pproved by project steering group
• Project wiki• Project chatroom – If-need-be
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Tryggve - A Nordic platform for sensitive BMS research data
Metadata: %males, contact info, tissue types,
Public
Shareable Anonymized, non-identifiable dataSigned terms of use
Non-shareableDirectly identifiable data:Gene sequences, face images,keys to real identities, …
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Beer-to-Share Nordic
In response to: national EUDAT partners
• “Four-click” European service (EUDAT)– Long-term
store&share – persistent identifiers– Metadata
• Customizing service for Nordic communities– BBMRI, EISCAT , ICOS,
INCF, INCF, CLSi (NO), NRM(SE)
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Letters of Interest 2014
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So, this Nordic thing is…
Not harmful
e-Infrastructure glue for five countries
Internationally open, also for excellent recruits
Continuously broadening its scope of collaboration
NeIC Conference 5-8 May 2015, Espoo