On Wednesday 10 July 2019 the DARE project, along with projects DEEP and XDC, hosted a very successful project clustering event at the campus of  NCSR Demokritos in Athens, Greece in the frame of the 7th Hellenic Forum 2019.

The full day clustering event (the Agenda is available here) entitled Creating platform-driven e-Infrastructure innovation on EOSC brought together for the first time all H2020 EINFRA-21 projects the workshop where other related EC-funded projects and initiatives were represented. Of central importance was also the representation of EOSC hub partners, EC officials and other stakeholders.

With the action EINFRA-21, platform-driven innovation is encouraged in order to address hard technical questions of high scientific and societal value, as part of a wider e-infrastructures strategy. The goal of this workshop was to allow participants to inform the wider community on progress, objectives and their vision, increasing the potential for cross-pollination, reducing overlap and spawn new synergies. In addition, as the progress and sustainability of platform-innovation projects crucially depends on EOSC this event helped towards ensuring that innovative platform-driven work is exploited in line with EC strategy.

Georgios Nounesis, Director & Chairman of the Board of NCSR Demokritos and Vangelis Karkaletsis, Director of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR Demokritos, Scientific Advisor and coordinator of the DARE project, initiated the workshop presenting National Research Infrastructures that are active at NCSR Demokritos, as well as the organisation’s actions towards building e-Infrastructure driven innovation.

The morning after, on July, 11, for the first time  EINFRA-21 projects, engaged in important technical discussions which led to know-how exchange and further synergies to be developed.