NA2 Dissemination John DYER Activity Leader

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NA2 Dissemination John DYERActivity Leader
Cork Conference, 22nd April 2004
www.eu-egee.org
EGEE is a project funded by the European Union
under contract IST-2003-508833
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NA2 Mission

• Proactively raise awareness of EGEE
• Academic and Research Community
• Business
• Government
• PR - Dissemination of Information
• Targeting new users/groups
• Induction through training (NA3)
• TERENA, Project Office in CERN and
  Federations/Partners working as a team

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NA2 Meetings Cork

• Successful initial meeting with NA2
• Joint NA2/NA3 meeting
• The following federations attended the NA2
  meeting
• 1. CERN
• 2. Northern Europe
• 3. Russia
• 4. Central Europe
• 5. Germany and Switzerland
• 6. Ireland and United Kingdom
• 7. South-East Europe
• 8. NRENS
• Vital that each federation appoints an NA2
  contact

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Actions and deliverables

• Execution Plan ready in one week
• Dissemination strategy preliminary draft ready
  for next NA2 conference call (May 12)
• Final dissemination strategy ready for Month 3
  (June 04)
• New website presented at NA2 meeting
• Feedback already being received by NA2
• Website subject to internal formal review

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New Public Website
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Actions and deliverables

• Corporate style, branding, end of May
• Media Relations developing database
• Publicity Material
• First news release issued
• Information sheets prepared
• Will be available via external website
• Government Relations and lobbying (CERN)
• Filming, photography, articles etc
• Conferences
• Evaluation and feedback

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Conclusions

• Dissemination is not a stand-alone activity
• Take EGEE information to any related event
• Get to know your federation NA2 representative
• Keep the channel of communication open
• Let them know about developments that could be
  turned into newsworthy material
• Let your NA2 representative know any contacts

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Sponsors Contributors

• Cork City Council
• Enterprise Ireland
• DELL (Ireland)
• Science Foundation Ireland
• DIAS
• Trinity College Dublin
• University College Cork

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SPECIAL THANK YOU

• Brian Coghlan
• John Morrison
• Luke Drury
• Niamh Power
• John Walsh and Technical teams
• HEANET
• Sinead, Nicola and Nicky Conference Partners
• Project Office colleagues
• PRESENTERS and DELEGATES

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Next EGEE conference

• THE NETHERLANDS
• 22-26 NOVEMBER 2004
• EGEE Portal www.eu-egee.org
• External website public.eu-egee.org
• DONT forget to complete a CORK evaluation sheet
  !