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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