SHARE Participants

SHARE Consortium:

  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
  • HealthGrid (International)
  • Universidad Politechnica de Valencia (Spain)
  • University of the West of England (United Kingdom)
  • Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Belgium)
  • European Health Management Association (International)
  • Empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH, (Bonn, Germany)

Third Countries partners

  • Argonne National Laboratory / University Of Chicago (USA)
  • Academia Sinica Computing Center (Taïwan)
  • Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (International)



Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

The research group Computing Platform for Life Science at LPC (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire) studies the interface between high-energy physics and life sciences. Its approach is to apply the computing methods and tools developed in high-energy physics for biomedical applications with a specific focus on Grid technology. The team has today acquired a recognised expertise thanks to its involvement in different scientific projects of research like DataGrid (FP5) or EGEE (FP6) European projects for example.

HealthGrid

HealthGrid has been participating since 2003 to the development of Grids in biomedical and healthcare sectors. The association was created to bring a long term continuity, to reinforce and to promote awareness of the possibilities and advantages linked to the deployment of Grid technologies in health at the planet level. The association is also participating to substantial European Projects, where the use of Grid appears fundamental for a definitive evolution of healthcare.

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPVLC)

The group of the UPVLC participating in the proposal is the High Performance Networking and Computing Group. The experience of this group in R&D and technology transfer, especially in health, is very relevant, with a total participation of 23 European R&D projects, with an important experience in technology dissemination in health, proven by the participation in several European dissemination and technology transfer projects (HPCN-TTN Network, EGEE) and the coordination of the cluster of medical projects (EUTIST-M) and the TT@MED. UPVLC will lead the applications Workpackage. The group has experience on technology transfer in the area and since 2001 it is involved in the application of Grid technologies, especially in health. The participation of UPVLC in the project is mainly focused on the health Grid applications, where it has the larger experience and can provide a wide analysis covering all the actors.

University of the West of England (UWE)

The University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) has an established reputation for its teaching and its innovative research. It is one of the UK's largest universities with eight faculties offering some 300 degree programmes across the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities to over 23, 000 students. Among the university, the Centre for Complex Co-operative Systems (C³S) based its researches on computing and engineering and has expertise in distributed databases and meta-databases, in cellular telephony, in Grid computing and in medical imaging applications.

Research Centre for Computer Law (CRID)-University of Namur (FUNDP)

The Research Centre for Computer Law, from the University of Namur (FUNDP) was created in 1979 at the occasion of a conference on "databases companies and privacy". Since then, it aims to create a debate on legal, economical and technical issues relative to Information Society Technologies. The CRID takes part with public and privative partners to IST projects that raise crucial questions for citizens and for the Society. The CRID also takes an active part in the writing of legislative texts in Belgium including transposition of European regulations, as well as in the redaction of recommendations for the European Commission. In this project, the CRID will be involved in the Legal, Ethical, and Social & Economic WP.

European Health Management Association (EHMA)

EHMA was founded in 1980 and is a European membership organisation with other 240 institutional members in 36 countries. EHMA is committed to improving healthcare in Europe by raising standards of managerial performance trough fostering activities between health service organisations and institutions in the fields of healthcare management education and training. It fulfils this mission by fostering networks between countries, academia, managers, policy makers and health professionals and by enabling the sharing of knowledge between experts and health organisations so as to influence policy in Europe. EHMA will rely on its 25 years experience to lead, and focus its activities on WP4 ?Health Policy, Legal, Ethical, Social, and Economic Aspects?, which explores the questions (legal, ethical, organisational, social and economic) surrounding the integration of the technologies to health systems.

Third Countries partners

Argonne National Laboratory / University of Chicago (ANL)

The mission of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL-MCS) is to increase scientific productivity in the 21st century by providing intellectual and technical leadership in the computing sciences: computer science, applied computational mathematics and computational science. Argonne National Laboratory is operated by the University of Chicago.

Key research areas at ANL-MCS include:

  • Collaborative and Virtual Environments
  • Computational Science Applications -Distributed Systems

ANL-MCS will play a role in this effort in the areas of Liaison and Dissemination, Health, Policy, Legal, Ethical, Social, Economic aspects and Roadmap synthesis and validation.

Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC)

ASGC is one of leading high performance computing and communicating centres in Taïwan, which provides advanced services for Grid Computing. With more than 100 sites joining in the LCG/EGEE project, Taiwan plays a leading role in Asia. ASGC provides the Grid-related technology and infrastructure support for the LHC experiments (ATLAS and CMS) in Taiwan. The ASGC has been actively participating in the LCG/EGEE project through various activities ranging from strategic planning to infrastructure deployment and services.

In this project, the ASGC will:

  • Coordinate the promotion and dissemination for the deliverables of Grid techniques to the Asian Communities;
  • Work jointly with participating partners on advancement of related standards based on our past experiences on Grid Infrastructure and Application development;
  • Be a partner for developing technology and security roadmap;
  • Cooperate for collecting and analysing requirements from Asia communities and feedback to project;
  • Participate in Application enablement and database establishment for health Grid system;
  • Set up a dedicated server to host a mirror of HealthGrid web server and services which will ease dissemination of information as well as results of the project and of the initiative within the whole Asian-Pacific region.