EUMEDCONNECT2 Applications

EUMEDCONNECT2 allows researchers, teaching staff and students across the Mediterranean to participate in world-class collaborative research projects and exciting e-learning activities.

Many of the applications supported by EUMEDCONNECT2 are of high societal impact and of particular relevance to the Mediterranean, bringing direct benefits to the general population.

Bandwidth-hungry applications include climate research and impact studies, e-health, e-learning and e-culture. Many of these applications require distributed (grid) computing resources and can draw on the powerful EUMEDGRID, which is enabled by the underlying network infrastructure.

Empowering e-science across the Mediterranean

EUMEDGRID is the first distributed (grid) computing infrastructure supporting researchers in the Mediterranean. It is one of many collaborative applications that rely on the high-capacity links provided by EUMEDCONNECT2 and its predecessor network.

Although the EC-funded project has now come to an end (running for just over two years from January 2006), the pilot infrastructure it deployed remains in place and use, and is being maintained on a best-effort basis by the Project Consortium, ensuring that Mediterranean countries are in a position to participate in world-class research in the years ahead.

As of March 2008, 25 sites across 13 countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Syria, benefited from the EUMEDGRID infrastructure.

More details on projects benefiting from EUMEDCONNECT2 are available from the links in the left-hand menu.