VI-SEEM opens its first Call for Proposals for projects accessing the VI-SEEM services and the supporting e-Infrastructure. The call is addressed to scientists and researchers that work in academic and research institutions in the region of Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, in particular Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, FYR of Macedonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. The project proposals should address open research topics in specific fields of Life Sciences, Climate research, and Digital Cultural Heritage.
VI-SEEM offers a broad set of generic as well as application-specific services in the region of South-eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, with special focus on the scientific communities of Life Sciences, Climatology and Digital Cultural Heritage. Services are in the areas of: Compute resource (HPC, Grid and Cloud); Storage and Data services; Datasets; Software and Scientific Workflows; Application-specific services.
Access to underlying computational resources will be awarded for a maximum period of 12 months, while access to underlying storage resources may be provided for up to 2 years, beginning January 2017.
The list of services and resources offered by the VI-SEEM VRE can be found at: https://services.vi-seem.eu and in the VI-SEEM VRE at: https://vre.vi-seem.eu
These services create a unique Virtual Research Environment (VRE), thus improving research productivity and competitiveness on the pan-European level. Via this call VI-SEEM opens possibilities for regional scientists from the selected scientific fields to have access to the advanced resources and services that the VRE offers.