EaPEC 2017 – 2nd Eastern Partnership E-infrastructure Conference

27-28 September, Minsk, Belarus

Policy makers, researchers, students and experts on networking and high performance computing for research and education from EaP countries and all over the world attended the 2nd Eastern Partnership E-infrastructure Conference, #EaPEC 2017: www.eapec.eu.

Organised by the EaPConnect project, EaPEC 2017 was hosted by UIIP NASB (BASNET) in Minsk, Belarus, on 27-28 September 2017, with updates via social media with: #EaPEC / #eapec:
Facebook Live sessions were recorded and are available via @EaPConnectProject
Twitter @EaPConnect_News
LinkedIn: EaPConnect

As part of the EaPConnect project’s goal to interconnect the research and education communities in the EU and Eastern Partnership regions, EaPEC 2017 supported community building and served as a platform for collaboration on policy and research, with a focus on e-infrastructures for Open Science.

EaPEC 2017 featured:

• a keynote speaker from the flagship Human Brain Project;
• presentations and discussions about research and e-infrastructures for open science;
• presentations of the second regional Enlighten Your Research awards.

Posters and lightning talks

Posters and lightning talks were new ways for EaPEC participants to share early results, get feedback on work in progress, find new collaborators from other institutions, and spark conference discussions.

Further information:

The full conference web pages and schedule are at www.eapec.eu.