In SPECTRUM, EGI Foundation contributes as provider of federated services of Cloud, HTC, HPC computing systems. Also, as a main interface to the EOSC.
The EGI Foundation (also known as Stichting EGI and abbreviated as EGI.eu) is a not-for-profit foundation established in Netherlands to coordinate the EGI Federation, an international collaboration that federates key digital capabilities, resources and expertise of national and international research communities in Europe and worldwide. The main goal is to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate and to carry out data- and compute-intensive science and innovation. The EGI Foundation manages an innovative service portfolio covering various distributed technologies, e.g., federated Cloud, federated HTC, federated data.
The EGI Foundation has a consolidated multi-stakeholder governance with participants from 22 different countries and an established process to define a long term strategy for the EGI Federation. With a solid Strategy and Innovation Team, it has contributed to strategy development in many European initiatives (e.g., see EC grants H-Cloud, GREAT, UNLOCK). With a mature project office, it has a strong experience in managing EC grants of different sizes (e.g., EOSC-hub, EGI-ACE, interTwin, iMagine AI). With a senior communications team, it has the capabilities to support the communications activities in various projects and communities (e.g., see projects EUhubs4Data, EGI-ACE).
