1. CORENA - Consolidating Research and Education Networking in Africa

Description

CORENA is a project aimed at integrating African universities and research institutions into the global research and education community through the provision of intra-African connectivity as well as access to sufficient and affordable international bandwidth. CORENA has three objectives, which are 1) Making a well-researched case for increasing investment for research and education networking. This is aimed especially at national governments in the region. 2) Enabling the implementation of sustainable approaches to capacity building for RENs.  This is an attendant objective: the delivery of bandwidth at low cost is not sufficient. So, there must be assured availability and the necessary support, which requires competent skills to operate and maintain the networks and 3) Documenting and disseminating best practices in the implementation of effective research and education networking, especially in a developing context.

More information about the project can be found on:

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-130802-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

2.GLOBAL - Global Linkage Over BroadbAnd Links

Programme

EUFP 7, Theme Capacities, Research Infrastructures

Description

GLOBAL provides a virtual conference centre using advanced communication technologies and concepts to support the promotion of e-Infrastructure topics in Europe and around the world.

The goal of GLOBAL is to allow and help research projects to disseminate their results and training events to a wider audience located in multiple geographical locations through the organisation of virtual conferences. GLOBAL provides a user-centric interface for planing, creation, announcement, coordination, content management and the realisation of virtuak conferences with open and wide participation. Through these virtual conferences, the participating users will be able to exchange information on e-Infrastructure development in their region, identify partners for future collaboration and exchange and discuss synergies between their running initiatives.

More information about the project can be found on:

www.global-project.eu

3. ERINA4Africa - Exploiting Research INfrastructures potentiAL for boosting Research and Innovation in Africa

Programme

EUFP 7, Coordination actions, Research Infrastructures

Description

ERINA4Africa is an initiative aimed at fostering cooperation between EU and Africa with a win-win perspective 1) Africa may benefit from the development of Research Infrastructure policies based on EU experiences and best practices, and 2) The EU will have the chance to demonstrate on-the-field benefits of exploiting Research Infrastructure in key ICT areas where public funding would be relevant, namely e-Government, e-Health and e-Learning.

ERINA4Africa has a green core. It is managed to monitor and reduce as much as possible any paper usage, travelling alongside the world and energy comsumption in general. This collateral exercise would demonstrate the possibility to have efficient while green research. Through the website, such metrics are continuously monitored,
provide concrete suggestions to reduce the impact of research projects on the environment.

More information can be found on:

http://www.erina4africa.eu/