Overview

TF-RED: Task Force on Research Engagement Development

TF-RED proposes to formalize an existing collaboration of NRENs working together to develop methods for engaging researchers and collaborations nationally and internationally, through a set of reports, workshops, and best practices. The scope of the task force focuses on collaboration between the participating NRENs, who then work within their own countries to engage their research support offices and collaborations. The TF aims to develop a framework for research engagement amongst the participating NREN community, and other research infrastructures. The results of the task force will yield documentation for other NRENs to develop their own form of research engagement, which will benefit the various research domains across Europe, and communicate and strengthen collaboration with other e-infrastructures.

Aims

  • The task force aims to develop a framework for research engagement through a set of reports, workshops, and best practices to help participating NRENs support their research communities. This will result in: 
    1. Increasing our understanding of science workflows (beyond the “usual suspects” such as high-energy physics); 
    2. Gathering and sharing information, which can be used to improve network architecture and design; 
    3. Understanding what is important to users so that NRENs can be more responsive to user needs; 
    4. Building a body of knowledge about research applications as correlated to network utilization,which can be cited in interactions with larger community and policy efforts.
  • The task force is open to anyone to participate and we will seek collaboration with other infrastructures (such as Elixir, Clarin, EPOS, ELI, ESS, EUDAT, EGI, PRACE etc.), but also other projects (European Open Science Cloud) with respect to research engagement efforts as a framework is developed within the NREN community.

     
  • By-products of TF-RED will include:

    •  Supporting research collaborations that want to collaborate internationally;

    •  Establishing a continuous and permanent information flow between RENs and Science and Research communities;

    •  Coordinating reliable, predictable network behavior in support of end-user applications;

    •  Improving performance of network-centric and data-centric workflows.

Tasks

Facts

This is the first year of operation for TF-RED, which was established on 24th February 2017.

TF-RED is lead by:

  • Sylvia Kuijpers (SURFnet)
  • Jakob Tendel (DFN) - co-chair
  • David Salmon (JISC) - co-chair
  • Kate Petersen (ESnet) - co-chair
  • Jim Bottum (Internet2) - co-chair

Next Event

TF-RED will be meeting with SIG-MSP and SIG-Marcomms on 8th March 2017 in Poznan. 

Mailing List

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Documents