Common use of European and International Collaborations Clause in Contracts

European and International Collaborations. The EMI project vision and mission are part of a more general context of European and international collaborations. The interaction of relevant initiatives and the cross-fertilization of ideas are essential to achieve the proposed objectives. EMI has therefore already started discussions and exchanges of ideas and joint collaborations with a number of existing and proposed projects in various fields. Most notably the following collaborations have been discussed: EMI in terms of what services must be supported. A letter of support from NDGF is provided in Appendix X. In addition, a number of projects have expressed a strong interest in making use of the software certification process that EMI will establish in support of its own engineering process. EMI is in favour of providing its tools, procedures and expertise to third-party projects with the two-fold goal of enforcing the correct integration of applications and tools with the EMI middleware and strengthening the reliability of the certification procedure through external contribution and review of functional and compliance test suites. Access to the EMI certification process will be granted on the base of Memorandums of Understanding as part of the ‗Works with EMI‘ collaboration program. EMI is committed to establish a functional Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI) ecosystem where all the relevant projects and activities can provide specific expertise and results. To this effect work has been started with EGI, VENUS-C, Xxxxxxxxxx, EDGI and IGE with the collaboration of the SIENA project to understand the relationships among the projects and any opportunity for collaboration within the larger scope of a coherent European Roadmap to be coordinated by the European Commission. The initial collaboration has two specific goals: 1) To provide a preliminary definition of the roadmap and position each project in it by assessing its specific areas of expertise and its objectives. 2) To establish bi-lateral or multi-lateral channels between the individual projects, so that more detailed common work plans can be defined within the context of the common roadmap Specific effort is allocated to this activity in the EMI project. The preliminary work will be carried out very early in the project lifetime in order to establish as early as possible a practical work plan for the duration of the project. The common objectives and roadmap and the identified opportunities for collaborations will therefore be described in an early project deliverable to be released in October 2010. The outcomes of the various collaborations and the actual realization of the common roadmap will be periodically reported to the EC either directly by EMI or as part of common events or initiatives together with the other DCI projects.