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e-ScienceTalk is a project co‐funded by the European Commission. Its primary aim is to communicate the application of e-Science to the wider community outside of the scientific world, as well as to showcase stories of success from the world of e-Science. e-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require distributed computing or storage. Types of distributed computing include grid computing, cloud computing, volunteer computing, and high performance computing (HPC).

Projects
e-ScienceTalk covers a number of online activities. Each contributes something different to the project’s main goal of communicating e-Science.

e-ScienceCity
e-ScienceCity is the main educational resource for the project. Its primary objective is to convey the many topics that fall under the broad umbrella of e-Science in a simple and easy to understand format and in an engaging fashion. The website covers grid computing, High performance computing/supercomputing, cloud computing and volunteer computing.

GridCafé
GridCafé was one of the first websites to be created. It was originally developed at CERN, the world's largest high-energy physics laboratory and is currently linked to the e-ScienceCity website. GridCafé provides an introduction to grid computing for the general public.

ISGTW
ISGTW (short for International Science Grid This Week) is an international weekly online publication that reports on distributed computing fields such as cloud technology and high performance computing (HPC, sometimes called “supercomputing”) as well as on the research that requires distributed computing technologies. The publication does not cover any stories about commercial only technology.

Grid Guide
Grid Guide gives a formal introduction to many of the global sites which rely on grid computing or storage power via an interactive map of the world.

A Youtube Channel
The Youtube Channel showcases interviews and research from international e-science conferences such as EGI, ISGC and Citizen Cyber Science. The Youtube channel also hosts educational videos about grid computing and other general forms of e-Science.

Real Time Monitor
The Real Time Monitor (RTM) was originally designed as a visualisation of the activity on the grid infrastructure. It was developed by Imperial College London in conjunction with the e-ScienceTalk project as well as another project known as GridPP. The RTM is used at conferences as a learning aid for showing what the grid infrastructure looks like.

Origins
The origins of e-ScienceTalk date back to 2006 when a group of scientists with connections to CERN decided to create a teaching resource about grid computing. The name of this project was GridCafé. In 2008 the project was extended. A blog, GridCast and an online publication, International Science Grid This Week, were launched as part of GridTalk. The GridTalk project was set up to bring the success stories of Europe’s grid computing to policy makers in government and business, to the scientific community and to the general public. The project was funded by the European Commission from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, GridTalk was extended into the current project known as e-ScienceTalk which aims to provide a clear consistent source of information aimed at non-experts on Europe's e-Infrastructures. This project will run until May 2013 and cover all aspects of e-science (grids, clouds, supercomputing networks and volunteer grids).

Social Media
The project currently has a Twitter feed (@e_scitalk) which contains useful links to e-Science related stories produced by other organisations.

Future Projects
e-ScienceTalk intends to extend the learning resource to GCSE and A level students in order to help young adults and future researchers understand the importance of e-Science.

Partners
This project has many partners. These include CERN, EGI, Queen Mary University of London, Imperial College London, and APO.