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The Central Europe region are represented by nine organisations in EGEE NA3 (CESNET, FESB, ICM UW, IISAS, IRB, JKU, JSI, MTA SZTAKI, PSNC, UIBK, Srce)
that consist of a number of academic and research centres, which possess noticeable experience in Grid technology, owing to participation in the Framework 5 CrossGrid, DataGrid, Eurogrid, GridLab, GRIP and GRIDSTART projects. In the past years the partners have been organising events oriented towards dissemination of Grid technologies, including Grid tutorials, Grid open days, regular seminars on Grid technology and several promoted Grid topics in lecturing and in student theses.
The following NA3 activities will be carried out by the Central Europe region:
The following NA3 activities will be carried out by the Central Europe region:
- include Grid technology in academic lectures and MSc/PhD theses at the technical universities of Cracow, Brno, Budapest, Innsbruck, Linz, Poznan and others;
- organise dedicated Grid seminars for researchers at every participating institution;
- prepare tutorials on layered software oriented towards interactive applications and organise dedicated training workshops for students and potential users;
- develop one or more dedicated training centre(s) in one or two partner countries, serving the whole community;
- prepare dissemination brochures on applications which are relevant to the Federation (e.g. "Grids for flood crisis response");
- organise in every country of the Federation "Grid open days" (including demonstrations), oriented to attract and induct new users;
- develop and support dedicated web pages.
