The 2nd Biosupercomputing Symposium
VPH Concertation Day Report - Published
Now available the report of the Concertation Meeting which gave the representatives from EC-projects - funded within the Seventh Framework (FP7) VPH Initiative, and VPH-related projects funded during Framework Six (FP6) - the first opportunity to gather and discuss about future multidisciplinary collaboration between the ICT and life sciences research communities.
Brussels, October 22nd, 2008. Held in conjunction with the ICTBIO 2008 meeting, jointly organised by the EC and VPH NoE project, the VPH Concertation Meeting sought to facilitate networking between projects/experts working in related VPH research areas, provide better visibility for project activities, and identify synergies and common area of interests within the VPH Initiative that may be tackled collectively by groups of projects.
The Report of the VPH Concertation Day includes:
- General Meeting Summary
- Review of Workshop 1: Clinical and Industrial Applications of the VPH
- Review of Workshop 2: A Perspective on Data and the VPH Initiative
- Review of Workshop 3: Development of a Common EU training framework
- Plenary session minutes
Follow-up actions, resulting from Workshops 1-3, will be pursued by VPH NoE representatives together with representatives of VPH-I and VPH-related projects. These are described in full in the document, and include:
- Preparation of dissemination material on the VPH-I, targeting the clinical community
- Establishment of a VPH Standards Working Group
- Organisation of a pilot Industrial Concertation Event, for VPH research
- Establishment of a VPH Data Working Group
- Preparation of a White Paper on Sharing and Reuse of Clinical Data
- Establishment of a VPH-I Working Group
- Publication of a VPH-I newsletter
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