The EUChinaHealthCloud project towards open science in the twenty-first century

Abstract

The EUChinaHealthCloud proposal contributes to the aims of the Research Infrastructures part of the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) by promoting cloud computing between the European and the China. The project, with a total number of 16 partners coordinated by ISTIC, started on July 1st 2012. It will disseminate the knowledge about the health cloud infrastructure, organize specific training events and support applications both within the scientific communities with an already long experience in the Computing Clouds (Population and Health, Bioinformatics and Biometrics, Computational Chemistry) and in the most recent ones (Aged care, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Clinical Medicine). Ultimately the EUChinaHealthCloud project will pave the way towards a common e-Infrastructure with the European and the China Clouds. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.