SLICES-PP receives funding from the European Commission

Shutterstock R. Sayfullin - Scientific Large-Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies-preparation project (SLICES-PP) is a project with 25 partners and a budget of €3 million for 4 years. The UvA will receive €303.000 and it will be led by Yuri Demchenko of the Informatics Institute. Demchenko, from the CCI (Complex Cyber Infrastructure) group, will coordinate two topics in SLICES-PP, first Research Data Management in the SLICES infrastructure, and secondly SLICES capacity building and career management. As a part of the activities in SLICES-PP, the UvA will also facilitate creating a SLICES-NL community involving Dutch research organizations and universities. The goal is to define the research agenda for SLICES-NL and coordinate efforts to obtain national funding. Fundamental contribution. SLICES as a European Research Infrastructure aims to make a fundamental contribution to research and innovation in digital sciences and infrastructures, future Internet technologies, future smart networks and services by providing high quality experimentation services with emerging technologies around the area of digital sciences.