PLAN-E, the European sister-organization to ePLAN, officially met with R.J. Smits, DG Research&Innovation, during the ESFRI Roadmap Update launch event!

Four workshops on the national ICT infrastructure have taken place at the eScience Center in Amsterdam, around the topics:

• Life Sciences&eHealth (19 January 2016)
• Physics and beyond (25 January 2016)
• Environment&Sustainability (28 January 2016)
• Humanities&Social Sciences (20 January 2016)

The results from these workshops can be found under Documents.

This year’s activities encompass:

• Writing a White paper on Software Sustainability (in conjunction with the Alliance for Software Sustainability)
• Exchanging information on national courses, workshops and schools on eScience and Data Research and finding white spots in education
• Exchanging information on software and tools to enricht the eScience Technology Platform
• Contribute to the annual national eScience Symposium 2016.