“The success of RedCLARAs OAR initiative would also be a success for the international OA repository movement.”
Within the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA), Brook Schofield is responsible for a porfolio of middleware activities that includes his participation as secretary for the Task Force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration (EMC2); in the GN3plus (GÉANT) Project he is the task leader for the eduGAIN interfederation service and member of the operational team for eduroam, activity pretty similar at the one that he carries at the ELCIRA project. In this interview we benefited from Brook’s knowledge about eduroam in order to better understand why is this such a relevant service.
“The deployment of globally linked Regional Research and Education Networks provide researchers with access to instruments, massive data sets, vast computing and analytical resources and easy virtual access to collaborators anywhere, enabling disruptive enhancements to all areas of research”.
The activity will address practices in entrepreneurship and innovation in the region through the presentation of experts from Canada, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela.
