User:Aertspjc/PLAN-E

Aertspjc (talk) 10:34, 9 February 2015 (UTC)PLAN-E is a Platform of National e-Science/Data Research Centers in Europe, as established during the constituting meeting 29-30 October 2014 in Amsterdam, and which is based on agreed Terms of Reference.

eScience and Data Research are relatively new directions in the way science is conducted. Whether or not new paradigms or research disciplines per se, eScience provides new opportunities to do science at previously unknown levels of depth or complexity, by enhancing the traditional ways of conducting science. Data Research is a typical example of this new direction in science, by taking the abundant numbers of data, or their complexity or volatility as the starting point for discovery. Across Europe and elsewhere in the world institutes are being set up, or newly directed towards escience and many of them face similar issues: student education, the “status” of escience or data research academics, setting up courses, getting access to e-infrastructures and the directions thereof, sharing good practices and they also share similar adjacent developments regarding data stewardship and software sustainability. And in addition these new centres share the common interest of promoting enhanced science and data research as enablers for innovation and scientific discovery.

These shared interests led to the formation of PLAN-E, The Platform of National eScience/Data Research Centers in Europe. PLAN-E was constituted on 29-30 October 2014, by acclamation of the then present members, from fifteen European countries, in the presence of European, e-IRG, EGI and JISC representatives. PLAN-E members share a common set of Terms of Reference, defining the scope of eScience and that of the Platform. Organisationally, PLAN-E is governed by a Kernel Group of active members, while the community has agreed to meet twice annually. The activities of PLAN-E are described in Annual Plans with targets. More can be found on the (under development-it now redirects to esciencecenter.nl) PLAN-E Website, including member lists, the Terms of Reference and the Annual plan.