e-Research South consortium gathers speed

The Oxford e-Research Centre was pleased today to host the kick-off meeting for e-Research South, a new consortium which brings together the STFC e-Science Group with Southampton, Reading and Oxford Universities.

The e-Research South Mission

e-Research South aims to create a sustainable research platform across participating organisations and their collaborators by applying innovative computing technology to interdisciplinary problems of increasing scale and complexity. 

e-Research South Activities 

The e-Research South Consortium aims to build a vibrant regional activity leveraging the individual consortium parts to create a significantly more valuable whole.

Driven by specific application areas and building on existing e-Infrastructure technologies and leveraging partner activities e-Research South will: 

• enhance ease of use, uptake and ‘accessibility’ 
• develop know-how and tools for dealing with research data 
• provide development of and access to advanced visualisation, 
• create a regional community, 
• provide opportunities for public engagement with science