News & Events

Organised by ASREN, with the support Sigma Orionis and all project partners, the CHAIN-REDS workshop was successfully held on December 11, 2013 in Tunis, Tunisia. The event was organised under the aegis of the European Commission, in association with EUMEDCONNECT3 and in co-location with the e-AGE 2013 conference "Connect, Access, Innovate"

The last issue of the CHAIN-REDS e-Newsletter is now online!Click here to read it

A programmable use of the CHAIN-REDS Semantic Search Engine is now possible thanks to a simple RESTful API which has been developed on purpose by INFN. The API allows to get and reuse the millions of open access resources contained  in the CHAIN-REDS Knowledge Base and stored in a Virtuoso RDF-compliant database.

Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, has placed great emphasis on the catalytic role of ICT in education and development. It was therefore a great opportunity for the participants to the Joint eI4Africa / CHAIN-REDS workshop to gather in Kigali, share their experiences and learn from each other and the local hosts.

The eI4Africa and CHAIN-REDS EU/FP7 projects have a common interest in promoting the adoption of consolidated standards, both in the e-Infrastructure and certification authorities and Federated Identity services domains, with the ultimate aim of widening the number of potential users of e-Infrastructures in Africa.

The event is aimed at presenting the outcomes of the two projects and providing a forum to discuss recent developments and perspectives in the field of e-Infrastructures.

The deadline of the Call for Contributions for the CHAIN-REDS workshop e-Infrastructures for e-Science 2013
has been extended to August 20, 2013 to provide full papers (max 5 pages) !

The CHAIN-REDS Project is organising a workshop on "e-Infrastructures for e-Sciences" focusing on Cloud Computing and Data Repositories under the aegis of the European Commission and in co-location with the International Conference on e-Science (IEEE) 2013 that will be held in Beijing, P.R. of China on October 17-22, 2013.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU), a document describing a bilateral agreement, was signed between CHAIN-REDS project and iMENTORS on June 2013 indicating an intended common line of action. The two projects have a common interest in a close co-operation in order to achieve their respective objectives. This MoU specifies the way in which such cooperation will be undertaken.