Twelve leading national research and education networks (NRENs) representing the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, and including Jisc's Janet network, have announced the official launch of the second 'Enlighten Your Research Global (EYR-Global)' programme.
This programme, which helps accelerate international research collaborations by providing selected proposals with improved networking, data transfers, and/or engineering, is now accepting proposals.
The EYR-Global programme reflects two growing trends in research: it is increasingly international in scope, and increasingly reliant on high-speed networks to provide critical resources for managing, sharing and analysing the data driving that research.
Major experimental collaborations such as the Large Hadron Collider integrate advanced networking capabilities as components for managing and sharing data internationally. At the same time, network-intensive research techniques are rapidly emerging across disciplines from genomics to climate research, materials discovery, humanities and the social sciences.
The EYR-Global programme was patterned after SURFnet's successful national Enlighten Your Research competition in the Netherland. It represents an important step forward in helping researchers in all fields to incorporate advanced global research networks to significantly improve discoveries and collaboration processes.
In 2013, the first inaugural EYR-Global programme resulted in four research projects in climate research, life sciences, and computer science receiving awards in the form of network resources and/or engineering consultations to improve the research workflows in each project.
For 2015, EYR-Global is seeking to support even more projects. The two-step proposal process includes review by a panel of judges representing each of the sponsoring organisations. Final EYR-Global proposal projects may have access to high performance network infrastructures operated by participating NRENs and their partners; support and consultation with expert network engineers to devise the best end-to-end network connectivity plan to support the proposed research; and commitment from each participating NREN for an agreed level of network resource provisioning and ongoing support during the programme period.
The selected proposals will receive resources and/or support from some of the world's leading NRENs which are sponsoring EYR-Global.
