HDN.eu project startup meeting why are we here

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HDN.eu project start-up meeting why are we here?

• HDN.eu meeting 9th January 2007
• Copenhagen Airport Hilton
• Martin Bech, Deputy Director, UNIC
• martin.bech_at_uni-c.dk

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NRENs- National Research and Education Networks

• Provide the national network backbone for
  universities and research institutions
• Some of them also provide internet for schools

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TERENA - TransEuropean Research and Education
Network Association
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GEANT2 European Network of NRENs

• The acronym stands for Gigabit European Academic
  NeTwork 2

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Networks dedicated to health care and health
research

• Some countries have national or regional
  organizations creating health data networks
• These organizations usually originate from the
  health authorities or from standardization
  efforts

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You are here
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Two projects

• The big one HDN.eu - that will give you the
  connection agreement system- maybe a health data
  network if you you dont have one already-
  implemented your way- at home- if you decide
  you need it- subsidized by the EC
• The small one EARNEST- a brief study into what
  NRENs can do for the health sector- containing
  an overview of the current status- existing
  project that is the responibility of TERENA-
  overlap with HDN.eu- pays for your lunch

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EARNEST- Education and Research Networking
Evolution Study

• A foresight study that TERENA is making as part
  of the GEANT2 project
• A small section (regarding what NRENs may
  possibly do for health care and health research)
  of this study is entrusted to UNIC and MedCom
• A chapter will contain the current status of
  health care networks in Europe and for this we
  input from you
• We will send a draft to you for comments in
  February
• TERENA will publish the whole study by May

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HDN.eu

• Health Data Networks (.eu)
• Registered the domain name hdn.eu
• Long title Proliferating Health Data Networks
  across Europe
• Project To take a particular piece of technology
  (the connection agreement system) that looks
  promising and adapt it to your needs, implement
  it in a useful way and test it in a real
  application scenario.
• At each project stage, you may decide to drop out.

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Material from this meeting regarding HDN.eu

• Will be made publicly available on www.hdn.eu
• No non-disclosure agreements
• What takes place today can be discussed with
  anyone
• This applies both to
• The fact that we are preparing an EU application
• The proposed content of the project
• - unless, of course, the group should decide
  otherwise

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Financing

• FP7
• DG INFSO
• Unit F3
• GEANT eInfrastructures
• 1-1.5M