Models of Sustainability Workshop
Oxford eResearch Centre (OERC)
Monday, December 3rd and Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Summary
An agenda-setting Workshop organised by the JISC e-Research programme and in collaboration with Prof. Anne Trefethen (Executive Director of the OERC).
The main aims of the Workshop is to highlight and examine models of sustainability based on successes from the e-Science Core programme, and to inform funders and policy-makers of ways in which sustainable research communities can be built and extended, and to inform decision-making in relation to future investment in the UK e-Infrastructure.
Deliverables
A report on lessons learned and examples of sustainability models and key source material to inform funding Roadmaps
Audiences*
- eScience Core programme project representatives
- UK eResearch community members & stakeholders
- Research Council members
- Policy makers
- Funders
*Note: Participation is by invitation only due to limited workshop space
Project presentations
Speakers to address the following questions on sustainability:
- What did you expect to build?
- What did you end up building?
- Level of infrastructure achieved (e.g. in terms of maturity)
- Is your infrastructure being used by the project, beyond,etc?
- How is it being sustained?
- Lessons learnt about sustainability
Invited Speakers
Breakout Reports
AGENDA
DAY 1 Monday, December 3rd - OERC
Chair: Prof. Anne Trefethen
12.30 – 13:30 |
BUFFET LUNCH – OERC Atrium |
PROGRAMME START 13:30 |
13.30 |
Welcome by Chair |
13.45 |
Keynote presentation – Dr. Malcolm Read, JISC Executive |
14.15 |
eScience Core Programme project presentations: Integrative Biology (Dave Gavaghan) DAME (Jim Austin) IXICO (Thomas Hartkens) |
15.00 |
Coffee |
15.30 |
eScience Core Programme project presentations: BioSimGrid (Mark Sansom) Godiva (Keith Haines) Combechem (Jeremy Frey) |
16.15 |
Moderated Round table discussion |
17.00 |
Day 2 Agenda Setting |
PROGRAMME END 17:30 |
17.30 - 18.30 DRINKS RECEPTION – OERC Atrium 19.30 – 21.30 NETWORKING DINNER EVENT – Browns Restaurant |
DAY 2 - Tuesday, December 4th - OERC
Chair : Prof. Anne Trefethen
9.00 |
Coffee |
PROGRAMME START 9:30 |
9.30 |
Welcome by Chair |
9.45 |
Summary of Day 1 proceedings and introduction to day 2 |
10.00 |
Break-Out Groups |
11.30 |
Coffee |
12.00 |
Group Reporting Session |
12.30 |
Challenges and recommendations |
PROGRAMME END 13:00 |
13.00 – 14.00 BUFFET LUNCH - OERC Atrium |
END of WORKSHOP
Workshop Organiser: Dr. Ann Borda [a.borda@jisc.ac.uk], JISC e-Research Programme
