Publications

e-Science in Scandinavia

From the December 2018 release of Informatik Spektrum (v. 41 pp. 398–404):

e-Science in Scandinavia: The Case of the Swedish e-Science Research Center

Olivia Eriksson, Erwin Laure, Erik Lindahl, Dan Henningson & Anders Ynnerman

The Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC) is based on a collaboration between four Swedish universities: The KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm University (SU), Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Linköping University (LiU). SeRC’s mission statement is to develop state-of-the-art eScience tools and provide e-infrastructure support to existing and emerging e-Science research communities to help bring about scientific breakthroughs in Sweden. SeRC was founded in 2010 as the result of the Strategic Research Area (SRA) initiative launched by the Swedish Government Bill on Research Policy in 2008, where a total of 24 different strategic research areas were defined – one of which was e-Science. Initially SeRC was granted funding for 5 years. During those first 5 years, SeRC built up an organization for e-Science research, which has been highly successful. This was reflected in the excellent grades that SeRC received when the SRAs in Sweden were evaluated in 2015, and the fact that after this, SeRC received funding for at least 5 more years. This new phase of SeRC partly focuses on activities relating to emerging technologies (such as exascale systems and data-driven science) while also consolidating SeRC’s ongoing efforts in working towards a long-lasting e-Science environment in Sweden.

Read the full publication here.