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 researchers.
Core values
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
The vision for NeIC is to be a global role model for cross-border distributed and sustainable e-infrastructure collaborations. NeIC activities will center on digital infrastructure for Nordic research excellence.
There are four strategic objectives in the NeIC 2020-2025 strategy:
- Beneficial collaborations are the principal way that NeIC brings together the needs, interests and resources to create e-infrastructure to support research excellence in the Nordic region.
- Nordic Influence is the effect that NeIC has in improving and advancing e-infrastructure for researchers and for society.
- Motivated People are essential in the collaborations and to bring the results into the research domains and society.
- Effective processes bind NeIC into an organization that is able to realize the benefits and influences that come from the collaborations.
These components of the strategy connect to three ranked priorities that justify the activities and projects that NeIC works on. The ranked priorities are:
- Deep Nordic interactions and collaborations
- Society, Ethics and Sustainability for research and societal value and sustainability through e-infrastructure collaborations
- Wide international interactions, collaborations and new roles.
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.
Society, Ethics and Sustainability
For the strategic period 2020–2025 the NeIC Board decided to put emphasis on Society, Ethics and Sustainability as a mechanism to define and clarify NeIC’s role especially in the Nordic region. NeIC developed a policy that outlines the concept of Society, Ethics and Sustainability in the NeIC context and initiates a discussion on how to consider and act on this priority.
The policy document contains actions for NeIC to address each of the aspects of society, ethics and sustainability. We have also included criteria regarding society, ethics and sustainability in the NeIC policy for project selection.
The policy document is available here.
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 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.
Activities
This page lists current NeIC activities. If an activity that you expected to find here is missing, please contact us Contact so we can fix it. In the meantime, you might still find it on the project category page.
Name | Countries | Start | End | Description |
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CodeRefinery3 | DK FI NO SE | 220301 | 250228 | Increasing Competence in Research Software development |
EOSC-Nordic | DK EE FI IS LV LT NO SE (24 partners) | 190901 | 220831 | Nordic contribution to EOSC, externally funded project |
NICEST2 | (DK) (EE) FI NO SE | 200601 | 230531 | Nordic Collaboration on e-Infrastructures for Earth System Modeling |
Puhuri | DK EE FI IS NO SE | 200601 | 220531 | Seamless access to Lumi world-class supercomputing |
Nordic Digital Humanities Laboratory (NDHL) | DK FI NO SE | 201001 | 211231 | Creating convergence in Nordic humanities and arts e-Infrastructures. |
Nordic WLCG Tier-1 facility (NT-1) | DK FI NO SE | 060101 | NDGF Tier1 is one of 14 regional computing centres of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. | |
FAIR data management | DK EE FI IS NO SE | [TBA] | [TBA] | |
NeIC 2022 conference | DK EE FI IS NO SE | 220531 | 220601 | The biennial NeIC conference for Nordic e-infrastructure collaboration |
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Collaboration
Collaboration is at the core of most or even all activities in NeIC. The ways to interact with NeIC are described on the page on Collaboration.
Collaboration with NeIC is usually proposed through an annual open call.
List of current NeIC Projects.
Public Documents
Highlights: This page lists or links to various public documents produced by NeIC.
Highlights
- NeIC Annual Report 2021
- Nordic Added Value for NeIC Collaborations
- Knowledge Creation through Cross-Border Sharing of eInfrastructure: Report on NeIC’s Implementation of the Nordic e-Science Action Plan 2.0
Governance and strategy documents
NeIC board governance documents:
NeIC strategy:
Long-term funding:
- A joint vision of a permanent and sustainable e-Infrastructure collaboration - A ten-year MoU between national research councils and NordForsk, April 2013
- Discussion on the future strategy for NeIC - Minutes from a meeting of national research councils, November 19, 2014
Annual reports
- NeIC Annual Report 2017
- NeIC Annual Report 2018
- NeIC Annual Report 2019
- NeIC Annual Report 2020
- NeIC Annual Report 2021
Evaluations and policy support
Evaluations and reports produced by NeIC on commission from stakeholders, such as the Nordic e-infrastructure providers or research funding bodies.
- Nordic use of PRACE Evaluation: Final report and board presentation.
- NHPC Evaluation: Final report and board presentation.
Reports
Reports from NeIC projects and events.
- Impact of Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration
- Nordic FAIR Data Collaboration Opportunities
- The State of Open Science in the Nordics: Printer friendly version and Spreads
- B2Share Nordic: Final report.
- NeIC All Hands 2015: Evaluation report.
- NeIC Achievements 2016
Workshop reports
Reports and minutes from workshops arranged by NeIC.
- E-Infrastructures for massively parallel sequencing workshop 2015 (eInfraMPS2015).
- Nordic accounting workshop 2014
- NeIC related discussions at the Application Expert meeting in Uppsala on 14-10-16
- NeIC at the EGI Community Forum 2014
- NeGI NCoE eClimate Kickoff 2014
- EGI Nordic coordination meeting 140226
- Nordic meeting on national strategies for data management.
- BMS project proposal workshop: Report.
Promotional materials
- Flyer: What is NeIC
- Flyer: Quick facts on the Tryggve project
Various documents
- NeIC 2016-2020 co-funding proposal
- National e-Infrastructure Providers' vision document, 4. June, 2014
- Contract process for new projects
- NeIC Culturebook: Induction to NeIC
Past publications
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- List of Public documents
Past Events
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Links
- NeIC official homepage.