The European Commission's Directorate General for Information Society and Media has issued a call for tenders for a study on the role of e-infrastructures in the creation of global virtual research communities.

The aim of this study is to measure the contribution of e-infrastructures to the creation of global virtual research communities and to define the ways of sustaining it in the future, in particular:
- to identify the changes in the scientific process brought by e-infrastructures;
- to measure the impact of e-infrastructures in socio-economic terms, taking into account this changing paradigm of science;
- to identify the policy changes required to fully exploit the e-infrastructures (organisation; funding, etc.) and to ensure their sustainability.

For further information, please contact:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Information Society and Media
Directorate F - Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures
Attn: Mr Jean-Luc Dorel
Office BU25 4/72
Avenue du Bourget 1-3
B-1049 Brussels
Tel. +32 2 295 1240
Fax +32 2 299 3127
E-mail: Contact

Full details of call on TED

Please note: The deadline for requesting tender documents is 8 August 2008.
The deadline for submitting tender documents is 18 August 2008.

Before contacting the Commission, tenderers are strongly advised to consult the original call text in the Official Journal of the European Union at the reference below.

Source: Community R&D Information Service (CORDIS)