MAGIC (H2020)

Project Executive authority: 

RENAM

Project domain: 

  • European Research Infrastructures, including e-Infrastructures

Project website: 

http://magic-project.eu/

Person responsible: 

Romeo FAGUREL

E-mail: 

romeo.fagurel@h2020.md

Phone: 

+37379686095

Project objectives: 

General Objective

To establish a set of agreements for participating world regions to consolidate/complete middleware for a marketplace of services and real-time applications to benefit global science communities.

Specific Objectives:

  • To enable mobility and seamless access to services by:

        promoting the establishment of identity federations connected to eduGAIN,

        creating awareness of privacy and security issues, and

        increasing uptake of eduroam.

  • To enable the provision of collaboration tools and services among NRENs based on NREN-run applications made available via a worldwide application market.
  • To seek consensus on interoperability of real-time applications and work towards the adoption of standards such as those proposed by the Global CEO Forum
  • To foster the collaborative work of Global Science Communities by actively promoting the participation researchers in European Commission Calls, etc

MAGIC: Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities

Project evaluated and approved for a Grant by the EC in Horizon 2020
EU contribution € 1,388,972
Start: 1st  May 2015
End: 30th  April 2017

Building on the success of the ELCIRA project, RedCLARA -with partners from Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia-Pacific is leading MAGIC, a cooperation project which aims to significantly improve the ability of researchers and academics around the world to collaborate together.