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Overview

TFSIG-RED: Task Force Special Interest Group on Research Engagement Development

TFSIG-RED will formalize an existing collaboration of NRENs (and other research infrastructures) working together to develop methods for engaging researchers and collaborations nationally and internationally, through a set of reports, workshops, and best practices. The scope of the task force focuses on collaboration between the participating NRENs/research infrastructures, who then work within their own countries to engage their research support offices and collaborations. The TF aims to develop a framework for research engagement amongst the participating NREN community, and other research infrastructures. The results of the task force will yield documentation for other NRENs/research infrastructures to develop their own form of research engagement, which will benefit the various research domains across Europe (and beyond), and communicate and strengthen collaboration between/with other e-infrastructures/research infrastructures.

Aims

  • The
task force
  • special interest group aims to develop a framework for research engagement through a set of reports, workshops, and best practices to help participating NRENs support their research communities. This will result in: 
    1. Increasing our understanding of research workflows (beyond the “usual suspects” such as high-energy physics); 
    2. Gathering and sharing information, which can be used to improve network/research architecture and design; 
    3. Understanding what is important to researchers so that NRENs (and other infrastructures) can be more responsive to their needs; 
    4. Building a body of knowledge about research applications (for instance, as correlated to network
utilization
    1. utilisation), which can be cited in interactions with larger community and policy efforts.
  • The
task force
  • special interest group is open to anyone to participate and we will seek collaboration with other infrastructures (such as Elixir,
Clarin
  • CLARIN, EPOS, ELI, ESS, EUDAT, EGI, PRACE etc.), but also other projects (European Open Science Cloud) with respect to research engagement efforts as a framework is developed within the NREN community.
     
  • By-products of
TF
  • SIG-RED will include:

    •  Supporting research collaborations that want to collaborate internationally;

    •  Establishing a continuous and permanent information flow between RENs and Science and Research communities;

    •  Coordinating reliable, predictable network behaviour in support of end-user (research) applications;

    •  Improving performance of network-centric and data-centric workflows.

Tasks

Facts

This is the first year of operation for TF-RED, which was established on 24th February 2017.

TF-RED is lead by:

  • Sylvia Kuijpers (SURFnet)
  • Jakob Tendel (DFN) - co-chair
  • David Salmon (JISC) - co-chair
  • Kate Petersen (ESnet) - co-chair
  • Jim Bottum (Internet2) - co-chair
  • Edward Moynihan (Indiana University) - co-chair
  • Charlie van Genuchten (SURFnet) - secretary

Next Event

TF-RED will be having an all-hands VC on July 5th, 2017 from 16.00 to 18.00 CEST. Please REGISTER via: https://eventr.geant.org/events/2692

Agenda, July 5

SubjectPreparationRound RobbinDiscussion: who is our target audience?

Beforehand think about:

  • Who is your target audience right now?
  • What audiences would you want to target in the future?
Start with preparations for gathering network/organisation related data, with respect to research engagement and/or IT requirements of research.Find out if you want/can commit to work on this activity in your own country/organisation.

The proposed achievements and KPIs for the task force are summarised in the table below


Activity Classification

Work Items and Descriptions

Results or Deliverables

Report

StrategyDefine a strategy document for the Task forceValues, Vision and strategy document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4FIIkI8S-BsnlpYHRpjWzAeB5m-6g42W7a7-dY3wSY/edit?usp=sharing 

Status
colourGreen
titleAchieved

BrandingCreate a logo and branding guidelines for task forcelogo and branding guide can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13BA9SMEvqtwuc7cx9IxGwD0zeXWBykW0

Status
colourGreen
titleAchieved

Data GatheringPerform a survey to understand how NRENs and others are structured and perform research engagement.

Survey results and understanding of Research Engagement landscape.  Report is to be run once every two years.


EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities (EaPConnect)TF-RED NREN Research Engagement Survey 2020: EaP Region - https://geant.box.com/s/dvshet11dxgrx9973nlb1qtuuvfj4gcd

Status
colourYellow
titleongoing

Audience Definition and Scoping Phase

(Activity Leader: Sylvia)

Define audiences for NREN/ICT/local research support offices perspective.

Internal documentation and scoping for TF collaborators and NREN community.


Not- started


Define research areas or communities (i.e., life sciences, climate, humanities, etc.) for TF collaborators. Extract from these defined areas research champions/advocates.

Create research advisory council for the TF from participating NREN countries.


Not- started



Communicate TF-RED initiatives to influential funders and/or research officials.



Status
colourYellow
titleongoing

Training Programme

Create a training course for research engagement in collaboration with GLAD. 

Course (online or in person) which can be taken by TF-RED participants to improve their research engagement skills

Not- started



RED Blue-print documentCreate a blue print document covering the why, how and the what of research engagement.

A document endorsed by the majority of the community.


https://geant.box.com/s/kpw9m13dz4nj2wt4b1ir0qlt0lckcf05

Status
colourGreen
titleAchieved



Create contact list of other infrastructures with brief description and collaboration opportunities


List of contacts

Status
colourYellow
titleongoing

Landscape AnalysisCreate a landscape analysis document about how and where and by whom research data is generated, moved from and too, for large international research projects.

A document for use within the community.



Not- started

Analysis and Reporting Phase

(Activity Leader: Chris Atherton, Sylvia as back-up)

Work with SIG Marcomms to define mechanisms to publish the outcomes from TF-RED.

Public website presence.

Not-started

(Wiki serving as public face)




Community presentations to research domain peers and NREN community presentations to share outcomes.

Workshop(s) and planned conference sessions (at DI4R, ISC, SC, ICT Open) with e-infrastructure collaborators on materials and issues ultimately increasing the value and face of R&E to other infrastructure resources.

Status
colourGreen
titleAchieved








Facts

This is the first year of operation for TF-RED, which was established on 24th February 2017.

TF-RED is lead by:

  • Sylvia Kuijpers (SURF) - Chair
  • Meoli Kashorda (KENET)
  • Olga Popcova (RENAM)
  • Chris Atherton (GÉANT) - Chair
  • Juraj Bilic (CARNET) 

  • Eli Shmueli (IUCC) -  coordinator

Next Event

SIG-RED face to face and Nikhef visit November 2024

To be determined

Mailing List

The group's mailing list can be subscribed to here.

Documents

Previous Events


June 2024 - TNC, 10/6/24

Hybid Summer All Hands TNC22, 13th June 22

Autumn 2021 VC: TF-RED All Hands Autumn 2021

SIG-Marcomms online meeting, including TF-RED joint session, 29-30 March 2021

Autumn 2020 VC: Autumn 2020 VC: Wednesday 28th October 2020

Summer 2020 VC: Thursday 11th June 2020 - TF-RED all hands VC

Spring 2020 VC: TF-RED All hands VC Mar 2020

Session at TNC18: User Requirements Odyssey

Meeting at TNC18: Research Engagement Challenges and Solutions

All hands VC July 5th, notes of the meeting

SIG-Marcomms and SIG-MSP joint meeting, Poznan 2017

Internet2 Global Summit, Washington DC 2017: 

Meeting: http://meetings.internet2.edu/2017-global-summit/detail/10004609/

Session: http://meetings.internet2.edu/2017-global-summit/detail/10004527/

TNC 17, Linz 2017:

Meeting: https://tnc17.geant.org/core/event/8

Session: https://tnc17.geant.org/core/session/19

 

Steering Committee meeting minutes can be found here