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The survey addressed ESiWACE's Partner and Supporting Institutions and aimed at a assessing the interest of the community in ESiWACE activities and collecting elements on how to inform it at best and at obtaining a state of the art sketch of the software the ESiWACE community uses, needs and might need within the project lifetime, ESiWACE has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 675191

ESiWACE answers to European Comission's questions on HPC involvement., ESiWACE has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 675191

Summary The current Plan summarises the beneficiaries’ strategy and concrete actions related to the protection, dissemination and exploitation of the project results. Horizon 2020 is a Research and Innovation programme aiming at fostering competitiveness and growth and increasing benefits to the European Union economy and citizens. Public investment in projects are to be converted into socio-economic benefits for the society, as clearly indicated in the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation, with a clear accent to the beneficiaries’ obligations to exploit and disseminate the outcomes of the funded activities. The Horizon 2020 work programme 2014-2015 explicitly specifies that project proposals shall include a draft Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results. This Plan is a strategic document indicating how the partnership establishes the basis for the intellectual property strategy, dissemination and exploitation activities, and summarises the beneficiaries’ strategy and concrete actions related to the protection, dissemination and exploitation of the project results. See Article 43 Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/legal_basis/rules_participation/h2020-rules-participation_en.pdf Other contributing authors Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKRZ), Joachim Biercamp, Kerstin Fieg, Jakob Luettgau, Nabeeh Jumah, Thomas Ludwig European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Daniel Thiemert, Peter Bauer, Peter Dueben Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (CNRS-IPSL), Francesca Guglielmo, Sylvie Joussaume Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (MPI-M), Reinhard Budich Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS), Sophie Valcke Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Kim Serradell Met Office (Met O), Mick Carter , David Matthews Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Bryan Lawrence The University of Reading (UREAD), Grenville Lister Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (SMHI), Uwe Fladrich National University of Ireland Galway - Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) , Alastair McKinstry Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Sandro Fiore, Giovanni Aloisio, Silvia Mocavero Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Florian Prill Seagate Systems UK Limited (SEAGATE), Malcom Muggeridge, John Forgan, Sai Narasimhamurthy, Giuseppe Congiu BULL SAS (BULL), Erwan Raffin , Xavier Vigouroux, Cyril Mazauric Allinea Software Limited (ALLINEA) Olly Perks, Patrick Wohlschlegel, Martin Hall, Laurent Lebeau

About this document Work package in charge: WP5 Management & Dissemination Actual delivery for this deliverable: 31 October 2015 Dissemination level: PU (for public use) Lead author: German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), Project office, Kerstin Fieg Other contributing partners: European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Hilda Carr CNRS‐ Institut Pierre‐Simon Laplace (CNRS‐IPSL) Francesca Guglielmo Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Isadora Jimenez Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI‐M), , Chiara Bearzotti Summary The Media and Communication Plan (MCP) describes the communication structures implemented to steer the communication between the project and all potential stakeholders and multiple audiences providing targeted information for each identified audience. The background for this document is to be found in the Art. 38.1 of the Grant Agreement Communication activities by beneficiaries: „The beneficiaries must promote the action and its results, by providing targeted information to multiple audiences (including the media and the public) in a strategic and effective manner“. The Media and Communication plan represents the project strategy for: Communicating the results of our research to a number of audiences we have identified in the document and with an adequate number and choice of communication tools Promoting the project and its results beyond the project‘s own community Promoting interaction with selected audiences The Plan also indicates 1) which audiences we target and 2) which communication measures are adopted to open a dialogue with these audiences. A special section of the MCP is also dedicated to communication tools adopted within the consortium to ensure internal information flow and exchange and thus foster a smooth and integrated implementation of the activities described in the Description of the Action.

International audience

International audience

IS-ENES is the distributed e-infrastructure of the European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES). A complex and heterogeneous infrastructure, IS-ENES encompasses models and tools development, documentation, deployment and sharing (including HPC aspects), data storage, processing and distribution as well as the interface with climate impact science and climate services, therefore serving climate science and the users of climate data. This direct impact has a path to many socio-economic sectors (energy, agriculture, transport, water management, health, safety…), as well as national and international policy makers. IS-ENES’ third phase (H2020-funded European project H2020 2019-2022) starts as the European climate modelling community faces the challenges of contributing to the next IPCC assessment report through the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). IS-ENES3 addresses these challenges by developing services to deal with unprecedented data volumes and model complexity. The infrastructure delivers the European part of the Earth System Grid Federation and a central point of entry to services providing access to new data, software, models and tools. IS-ENES3 will further stimulate collaboration, disseminate software and data, and integrate and expand Europe wide its user base. Moreover, it will find innovative ways of working with the Copernicus programme, already relying on IS-ENES ESGF services, and with other parts of the European data infrastructure, and with the high performance computing and data analytics industries. We propose to employ a blend of indicators to show the advancement of key aspects/activities toward the achievement of the project’s manifold short and long-term impacts. Besides relying on indicators used so far to measure software uptake and use and data processing and download, including the reliability of help and documentation services, we plan in IS-ENES3 to add ways to measure contributions to joint development activities (e.g. for new model modules), map applications for Trans National Access and the landscape of national and international science projects relying on the infrastructure. Targeting infrastructure openness and outreach toward adjacent communities, we deem important to map participation in interoperability initiatives, as well as involvement per community and career stage in IS-ENES outreach and training initiatives. We also aim at discussing ways on how to measure tangible outcomes resulting from engagement with Copernicus, EOSC, other European infrastructures, as well as with the industry. We offer a retrospective analysis of the methodology used in the previous phases of IS-ENES to measure impacts and an outlook of what IS-ENES3 proposes to increase and optimize them. In the crucial moment of preparing sustainability of a mature, heterogeneous, acknowledged yet expanding infrastructure, estimates of the extent of impacts (including financial ones when applicable) and return of target communities might ultimately feed back into infrastructure architecture decisions.

IS-ENES is the distributed e-infrastructure of the European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES). A complex and heterogeneous infrastructure, IS-ENES encompasses models and tools development, documentation, deployment and sharing (including HPC aspects), data storage, processing and distribution as well as the interface with climate impact science and climate services, therefore serving climate science and the users of climate data. This direct impact has a path to many socio-economic sectors (energy, agriculture, transport, water management, health, safety…), as well as national and international policy makers. IS-ENES’ third phase (H2020-fundedEuropean project H2020 2019-2022)starts as the European climate modelling community faces the challenges of contributing to the next IPCC assessment report through the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). IS-ENES3 addresses these challenges by developing services to deal with unprecedented data volumes and model complexity. The infrastructure delivers the European part of the Earth System Grid Federation and a central point of entry to services providing access to new data, software, models and tools. IS-ENES3 will further stimulate collaboration, disseminate software and data, and integrate and expand Europe wide its user base. Moreover, it will find innovative ways of working with the Copernicus programme, already relying on IS-ENES ESGF services, and with other parts of the European data infrastructure, and with the high performance computing and data analytics industries. We propose to employ a blend of indicators to show the advancement of key aspects/activities toward the achievement of the project’s manifold short and long-term impacts. Besides relying on indicators used so far to measure software uptake and use and data processing and download, including the reliability of help and documentation services, we plan in IS-ENES3 to add ways to measure contributions to joint development activities (e.g. for new model modules), map applications for Trans National Access and the landscape of national and international science projects relying on the infrastructure. Targeting infrastructure openness and outreach toward adjacent communities, we deem important to map participation in interoperability initiatives, as well as involvement per community and career stage in IS-ENES outreach and training initiatives. We also aim at discussing ways on how to measure tangible outcomes resulting from engagement with Copernicus, EOSC, other European infrastructures, as well as with the industry. We offer a retrospective analysis of the methodology used in the previous phases of IS-ENES to measure impacts and an outlook of what IS-ENES3 proposes to increase and optimize them. In the crucial moment of preparing sustainability of a mature, heterogeneous, acknowledged yet expanding infrastructure, estimates of the extent of impacts (including financial ones when applicable) and return of target communities might ultimately feed back into infrastructure architecture decisions.