EELA-2 Workshop in Dublin (Ireland)

Welcome to the EELA-2 Workshop in Dublin. EELA-2 is the second phase of the EELA project; a success story born in Genuary 2006 thanks to the co-fundings of the the european commission in the context of the EGEE project. The aim of EELA project was to instanciate a scientific collaboration between Europe and Latin America thanks to the facilities offered by the Grid technology. EELA-2 will continue this effort trying to attract more user communities.

Event Scope / Purpose
The Aim of this workshop is to show impressive results obtained by scientific communities using not only EELA-2 but also other e-Infrastructures in Latin America and the rest of the world; - Discuss policies and plans for the long term sustainability of Regional e-Infrastructures, with special emphasis on the Latin American one. The EELA-2 Project will be then shown to the Irish scientific community expecting to assess the interest of the Irish Institutions to collaborate with EELA-2 for the development of e-Science in the country.

Dead Line(s) for registration
10 - Sep - 2008

Registration fees
Registration for this event is free of charge.

EELA-2 Support Request (ONLY FOR EELA-2 MEMBERS AFTER REGISTRATION)
If you need some support for travel or lodging or both, please fill out the EELA-2 Support Form

NOTICE:
- Only one (1) electronic reimbursement request should be sent per event AFTER its completion
- The Maximum number of EELA-2 supported people allowed for this event is 12

Support Modality (several options follow)

- Lodging and other expenses:

• Case 1: Your lodging expenses (Room and Breakfast) will be paid directly by the EELA-2 Project Office. Other incurred actual costs (meals, taxis, translates, registration fees and/or any other eligible expenses) will be reimbursed, provided that you will send an electronic reimbursement request, with scanned invoices/receipts attached, to hlp-eela2-finance@hlpdeveloppement.fr.
  The maximum amount that will be reimbursed will be the difference between 130 Euros and the actual cost of your hotel.
• Case 2: All incurred actual costs (room, breakfast, meals, taxis, translates, registration fees and/or any other eligible expenses) will be reimbursed, up to a maximum of 130 Euros per day, provided that you will send an electronic reimbursement request, with scanned invoices/receipts attached, to hlp-eela2-finance@hlpdeveloppement.fr.
  

• In any case, the maximum period during which you will be supported runs from 18/09/2008 to 20/09/2008. The irrevocable deadline to send your reimbursement request is 20/10/2008.


- Travel expenses:

Concerning your travel expenses, you can either ask HLP to provide your ticket (EELA-2 Support Form) or buy it by yourself and then be reimbursed by HLP. In the later case, you should send an electronic reimbursement request with scanned travel ticket invoice attached, to hlp-eela2-finance@hlpdeveloppement.fr. The maximum amounts allowed for ticket reimbursement are listed in following table:

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(Please inform HLP hlp-eela2-event@hlpdeveloppement.fr of the main AL and Europe city of departure to Dublin to prepare the flight cost table)

The irrevocable deadline to send your reimbursement request is 20/10/2008.

Invitation Letter
If you need an invitation letter, please complete the Invitation Letter Template. Such a letter is generally requested to get a visa.

Visas
Please check with the appropriate consulate / embassy whether or not a visa is necessary to get in the country of the event. HLP will only purchase your travel ticket upon presentation of the visa issued. Do not forget that, the latter you obtain your visa, the latter your ticket will be bought by HLP, risking its price to exceed the maximum allowed reimbursement for travel expense.

Vaccination
Please check carefully whether or not you need to be vaccinated to get in the country of the event.

Department of Computer Science,
O'Reilly Institute,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2,
Ireland
Dublin 2, Ireland