National Grid Initiatives

EGI Policy Board Chairman

Prof. Gaspar Barreira
LIP, Portugal
pb-chair(at)eu-egi.eu

EGI Policy Board Vice-Chairman

Prof. Michal Turala
PL-Grid, Poland
pb-vicechair(at)eu-egi.eu

Dr. Fotis Karayannis
Independent consultant, Greece
pb-vicechair(at)eu-egi.eu

EGI Policy Board

No. Country Institution PB member(s) Date1
1 Albania ALBGRID Jorgaq Kacani February 4, 2009
2 Armenia National Academy of Sciences, Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems Hrachya Astsatryan February 24, 2009
3 Austria GUP, Joh. Kepler University Jens Volkert April 24, 2007
    Federal Ministry of Science and Research Stefan Hanslik  
4 Belarus Research Division of Belarusian National Technical University Ihar A. Miklashevich August 15, 2007
5 Belgium BELNET Rosette Vandenbroucke April 16, 2007
6 Bulgaria Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Kiril Boyanov March 6, 2007
7 Croatia SRCE, University computing centre, University of Zagreb Ivan Maric April 13, 2007
8 Cyprus University of Cyprus, Dept. of Computer Science Marios Dikaiakos February 24, 2007
9 Czech Republic CESNET z.s.p.o. Jan Gruntorad June 5, 2009
      Ludek Matyska (alternate)  
10 Denmark DCSC - Danish Center for Scientific Computing Rene Belso April 27, 2007
11 Estonia NICPB - National Institute for Chemical Physics and Biophysics Hardi Teder April 26, 2007
12 Finland CSC - Scientific Computing Ltd. Leif Laaksonen March 5, 2007
13 France CNRS - Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Michel Spiro April 9, 2009
14 Georgia GRENA Ramaz Kvatadze February 24, 2009
15 Germany DFN-Verein - Deutsches Forschungsnetz (on behalf of D-Grid) Klaus Ullmann April 10, 2007
16 Greece GRNET S.A. - Greek Research & Technology Network Panos Louridas January 15, 2009
      Tryfon Chiotis  
17 Hungary NIIF - National Information Infrastructure Development Institute Tam�s M�ray April 27, 2007
18 Ireland Grid-Ireland Brian Coghlan March 28, 2007
19 Israel School of Physics, Tel Aviv University David Horn April 23, 2007
20 Italy INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Mirco Mazzucato April 26, 2007
21 Kazakhstan Kazakh-British Technical University Iskander Beisembetov September 16, 2008
22 Latvia University of Latvia, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Inara Opmane April 18, 2007
23 Lithuana Faculty of Mathematics & Informatics, Vilnius University Algimantas Juozapavicius April 25, 2007
24 Luxembourg Fondation RESTENA - R�seau T�l�informatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche Antoine Barthel March 16, 2007
25 Malta University of Malta Kevin Vella May 8, 2007
26 Moldova Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova Veaceslav Sidorenco November 1, 2007
27 Montenegro University of Montenegro Bozo Krstajic August 21, 2007
28 Norway NorGrid, UNINETT Sigma AS Jacko Koster April 25, 2007
29 Poland PL-Grid, ACK CYFRONET AGH Michal Turala April 16, 2007
      Kazimierz Wiatr  
30 Portugal LIP - Laborat�rio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas Jorge Gomes January 14, 2009
    Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) Luis T. Magalhaes April 9, 2007
31 Romania Ministry of Education and Research, National Authority for Scientific Research Ion-Sorin Zgura March 29, 2007
32 Russia RDIG - Russian Data Intensive Grid, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics Viacheslav Ilyin May 2, 2007
33 Serbia AEGIS - Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia Aleksandar Belic April 24, 2007
34 Slovakia IISAS - Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences Ladislav Hluchy March 21, 2007
35 Slovenia ARNES Marko Bonac May 9, 2007
36 Spain Spanish e-Science Network, Universitat Polit�cnica de Val�ncia Vicente Hern�ndez April 18, 2007
    IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria , CSIC Jesus Marco  
37 Sweden SNIC - Swedish National Infrastructure of Computing, Uppsala University Sverker Holmgren April 30, 2007
38 Switzerland CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Marie-Christine Sawley April 12, 2007
    SWITCH - The Swiss Education & Research Network Fiorenzo Scaroni  
39 The Netherlands Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation Patrick Aerts April 30, 2007
      Rossend Llurba  
40 Turkey TUBITAK-ULAKBIM Cem Sarac March 21, 2007
41 Ukraine NAS - National Academy of Sciences Gennady Zinovjev May 9, 2007
      Anatoly Shpak  
42 UK UK e-Science Institute Malcolm Atkinson April 11, 2007
    STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council Neil Geddes  

Policy Board Associated Members

Institution PB Associated Member Date
CERN David Foster January 20, 2009

Policy Board Observers

Institution PB Observer Date
EGEE Bob Jones September 22, 2008
NDGF Michael Gronager January 20, 2009
1 The Column "Date" contains the date of the nomination of the NGI representatives.

Countries which have expressed their support to EGI


Europe map
The NGIs from the countries coloured in green have sent corresponding letters of support to EGI and the EGI_DS proposal.