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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> news@eudat.eu [mailto:news@eudat.eu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 29, 2017 11:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lazarus Matizirofa <lazarus.matizirofa@nrf.ac.za><br>
<b>Subject:</b> EUDAT conference "Putting the EOSC into practice", 23-25 January 2018: registration & call for posters/demos are open!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1031" src="http://newsletter.eudat.eu/Repository/images/EUDAT-logo_PuttingEOSC_300.png"></span></i></b><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Join
 the EUDAT conference 2018</span></b></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br>
After the success of the previous EUDAT conference in Amsterdam which brought together more than 300 participants, we are ready to kick-off 2018 with the EUDAT conference
<em><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">"<a href="https://eudat.eu/events/conferences/save-the-date-eudat-conference-putting-the-eosc-vision-into-practice">Putting the EOSC vision into practice</a>".
</span></b></em>The conference takes place in the stunning location of Porto, Portugal from the 23rd to the 25th of January 2018.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Why join?</span></strong><br>
The conference will:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Discuss the progress of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the European Data Infrastructure (EDI)</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> and
 the contribution of EUDAT as well as other infrastructures to these two initiatives;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Showcase the latest trends in data infrastructure and data management solutions for research;</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Demo the solutions developed by EUDAT
</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">to address researchers and research communities’ data management needs, through concrete pilots;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Inform about the concrete opportunities offered by the newly established EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
 to the service providers and research communities.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Additionally, it will give you the opportunity to showcase your work to an audience of community decision-makers and data managers, scientists and research communities,
 policy-makers, e-Infrastructure projects, research infrastructures and ESFRI projects during a
<a href="https://eudat.eu/eudat-conference-2018-call-for-posters-demos"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">poster & demo session (Submissions open until 30 November 2017).</span></strong></a><br>
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Finally, it will host a <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">set of co-located workshops</span></strong> covering different topics and disciplines to complement the main programme. The co-located workshops will be announced soon!<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Curious about the programme?</span></strong>
<a href="https://eudat.eu/eudat-conference-2018-programme"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A sneak preview is available here</span></strong></a>. More information will be available in the upcoming weeks.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">What you can do now? </span>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Enjoy our newsletter, mark the dates in your agenda and start
<a href="https://eudat.eu/eudat-conference-2018-venue-accommodation">planning your trip to Porto</a>. Registration</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">is open: make sure you register by 17 November 2017 to benefit from the early-bird rate (€ 80)!
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://eudat.eu/news/eudat-launches-the-generic-execution-framework">Move the tools not the data to avoid costly data transfers: EUDAT</a><a href="https://eudat.eu/news/eudat-launches-the-generic-execution-framework">
 launches the Generic Execution Framework</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The EUDAT team is pleased to announce the release of the beta version of the Generic Execution Framework (GEF). The trend towards larger data volumes exacerbates the problem
 of costly and time consuming data transfers to off-site data processing locations. The EUDAT GEF enables you to deploy your containerised scientific tools to computational resources in close proximity to the input data in order to minimise overall data transfer
 costs for your research community. The EUDAT GEF enables execution of containerized software tools on data stored in the EUDAT...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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