1. Panel session: Building sustainable institutions for the Mediterranean Leonardo Flores AñoverEuropean Commission, DG INFSO GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit EU-Med Event 3 Conference on e-Infrastructures across the Mediterranean Brussels, 30-31 March 2010 http://www.terena.org/activities/development-support/eumedevent3/ "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

2. The new EC financial support The new EC financial support ENPI 2007-2013 • European Neighbourhood & Partnership Instrument (ENPI) • €12bn • Plus increased EIB lending mandate: €12.4 bn • Bilateral + multi-country: 90% funds ( over 10bn) • Cross-border cooperation and other: 10%

3. Objective of EUMEDCONNECT3 from 2011? Maintain the research networking e-infrastructure in the Euro-Mediterranean region to further maximise synergies for research (FP7) projects (DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN EGYPT - Dániel WEISS)

4. ENPI Regional South Indicative Programme for 2011-13, probable conditions:* • connection costs should be lowered and a better topology should be set up with possible links to additional countries/regions • ASREN should be functional – taking over the management of the project from DANTE (at least partly) • * The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) Regional South Indicative Programme (RIP) for 2011-13 exercise is not expected to be approved before July 2010 4

5. In addition: • EUMEDCONNECT3 will be the final extension of the project and • the EC contribution will be decreased to 30-35% of the total costs of the project 5

6. EUMEDGRID: Grid e-Infrastructure in the Mediterranean; porting of new applications on the Grid EUMEDGrid Support: promotion and deployment of e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Area Ithanet: network of research centres conducting molecular and clinical research in thalassaemia and related haemoglobinopathies FP7 e-Infrastructures projects with MED partners (1/2) FP7 e-Infrastructures projects with MED partners

7. SEE-GRID support the participation of the SEE countries to the Pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives LinkSCEEM: establishing a coherent HPC community in the Eastern Mediterranean LinkSCEEM-2: (negotiations) FP7 e-Infrastructures projects with MED partners (2/2) FP7 e-Infrastructures projects with MED partners

8. INFRA-2010-3.3:Coordination actions supporting policy development and nternational cooperation, for e-Infrastructures … International cooperation: • further extension of e-Infrastructures to International Cooperation Partner countries (ICPC); • joint road mapping of activities with developed countries; • promotion of the interoperation between similar infrastructures on the global scale