Workshop
EOSC in progress
With participation from…
September 20, 2018
What is ePLAN?
1. Advocate optimal application of digital technologies in academic research,
2. Promote use of outcomes from computer and data science and methodologies
from computational science,
3. Support optimal deployment of and feedback to digital infrastructures and
4. Visible contact point for government, industry and society
National platform for data-intensive and
compute-intensive research in the Netherlands
Activities by ePLAN
✓ Identify, share and publicize challenges, new developments and best practices in
the area of data-intensive and compute-intensive research
✓ Organize informational events and interactive workshops for researchers and
policy makers to share relevant academic and technological trends and developments
✓ Represent the Dutch data-intensive and compute-intensive research community
nationally and internationally
✓ Coordinate actions towards improved provisioning of digital infrastructure for
research
Who is ePLAN?
• ePLAN community: research organisations and infrastructures that
support the aims of ePLAN
• ePLAN kernel group: diverse representation of ePLAN community:
✓ Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Humanities)
✓ Peter Doorn (DANS)
✓ Dick Epema (IPN)
✓ Erik Fledderus (SURF)
✓ Wilco Hazeleger (eScience Center, chair)
✓ Jaap Heringa (VU, Life Sciences)
✓ Bettina Speckmann (DSPN)
✓ Edwin Valentijn (RUG, Astronomy)
✓ Luuk Visscher (VU, Physics and
Computational Research)
✓ Vacancy (Social Sciences)
Netherlands eScience Center
National expertise center for research software and digital methodologies
We fund collaborative
research projects
We collaborate in
externally funded projects
We bring people together
as coordinator, trainer etc.
Academic researchers
Collaborative
projects
How can you work with us?
Research
software &
Methods
Our team
FAIR software:
• Finding software
• Making software accessible
• Quickly judge relevance and quality
• Indicating return on investment
www.research-software.nl
Research Software
Directory