NeIC Community Wiki

The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration, NeIC, facilitates the development and operation of advanced IT tools and services in areas of importance to Nordic and Estonian researchers.

Organisation

Day-to-day management of NeIC is handled by the executive team (XT), chaired by the Director.

Functions of the XT include strategy implementation, project ownership, project portfolio management, committee facilitation, NeIC office management, facilitating the work of the NeIC Strategic Committee (our board), and communications. Project ownership includes steering group representation. Project portfolio management includes supporting project managers and stimulating mutual learning and improvement.

Functions of the project managers: project management (team leadership), facilitation of project steering group meetings, engaging with project's stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Public Documents

See our list of Public documents, including governance and strategy documents, policies, annual reports, scientific reports and other.

Activities

This page lists current NeIC activities. If an activity that you expected to find here is missing, please contact us at Contact so we can fix it.

Name	Countries	Start	End	Description
CodeRefinery4	DK FI IS NO SE	250515	280514	Increasing competence in FAIR research software practices and development
NMD2	DK FI NO SE	241201	261031	Facilitating access and use of Nordic microdata
NordIQuEst2	DK EE FI NO SE	251001	280831	Nordic-Estonian quantum computing e-infrastructure quest
Puhuri3	DK EE FI NO	250601	280531	Seamless access to supercomputing resources

See also:

• Past activities

Strategy and values

Values

Open, reliable and continuously striving to improve in our work, we are motivated by adding value to research. The core values governing all of NeIC's activities are:

• NeIC services and development are motivated by providing added value to Nordic research.
• NeIC shares knowledge and develops competence on advanced e-infrastructure solutions.
• NeIC works in open and transparent ways to be a trustworthy partner.
• NeIC strives to improve continuously in what we do.

Strategy and Focus

NeIC Strategy 2025 onward

There are three strategic objectives in the NeIC 2025+ strategy:

1. Beneficial collaborations are the principal way that NeIC brings together the needs, interests, and resources to create e-infrastructure to support research excellence.
2. Connecting competencies ties back to the foundational values of NeIC: to enable the sharing of information, knowledge, and capabilities across country and organisational borders. It is also what makes NeIC so impactful, and essential in supporting the competitiveness of our region.
3. Tangible results are the detectable outcomes of NeIC projects, managed with the help of the practical project steering framework. The Affiliate programme supports transferring the results to ensure their sustainability.

Previous strategies are found here.

Nordic Added Value

NeIC has developed a description of Nordic Added Value (NAV) as it relates to NeIC and the stakeholders in NeIC projects and included an explanation for choosing the elements derived from a search of relevant literature on added value, including beyond the Nordic region. The goal was to provide a realistic and realizable framework for evaluating and communicating the added value provided to the Nordic region by NeIC projects.

The major elements of Nordic added value for NeIC activities is:

• Enable excellence in research
  • Increase the competitiveness of Nordic researchers in EU research activities or other international research cooperation
  • Increase the ability of the region to attract talent and investments, and enhance its appeal as a partner in cooperation
• Add value to the Nordics beyond national capabilities in e-infrastructure
  • Enhance sustainability and integration by sharing infrastructure or data or harmonising systems for utilising data and other resources in the Nordic region
  • Develop platforms for international cooperation
• Increase competence and competitiveness in e-infrastructure
  • Help to build critical mass and/or expertise at the Nordic level in important disciplines or research areas
  • Lead to networking among the Nordic countries
• Act as a global role model for e-infrastructure collaborations
  • Create the profile of a knowledge-based region
  • Create a model for Europe in transnational research co-operation.

The full description is accessible here.