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Welcome

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Welcome Addresses

Kostas Glinos

European Commission, Head of Unit F3 'GÉANT & e-Infrastructure', DG INFSO,

European Commission

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Welcome Addresses

Pierre Deusy

European Commission, Economic aspect of EUROMED

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Welcome Addresses

H.E. Mashhour Abudaka

Minister of Telecom and Information Technology

Palestinian National Authority

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Welcome Addresses

Talal Abu Ghazaleh

Chair UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development

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Roundtable discussion: Regional support for e-Infrastructures

Session chair: Kostas Glinos, European Commission, Head of Unit F3 'GÉANT & e-Infrastructure', DG INFSO, European Commission

Panellists: • Mashhour Abudaka, Minister of Telecom and Information

Technology, Palestinian National Authority• Hesham El Deeb, Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of

Communications and Information Technology, Egypt • Maher Suleiman, Director of the National Agency for Network

Services, Ministry for Telecommunications, Syria• Yousef Torman, Executive Director Jordanian Universities

Network

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Session 2: Euro-Mediterranean collaborative projects enabled by e-Infrastructures

Session Chair:

Federico Ruggieri - Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Coordinator of EUMEDGRID-Support project

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International collaboration on epilepsy surgery in Tunisia - a model for the future

Amel Mrabet, Department of Neurology, EPS Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis

Session 2: Euro-Mediterranean collaborative projects enabled by e-Infrastructures

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High-performance networking in the context of the ATLAS particle physics experiment

Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli, University Mohammed V-Agdal, Academie Hassan II

des Sciences et Techniques, Morocco

Session 2: Euro-Mediterranean collaborative projects enabled by e-Infrastructures

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European E-science and Research Infrastructure initiatives in earthquake seismology and

earthquake hazard; opportunities for cooperation across the Mediterranean

Torild van Eck, Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS)

Session 2: Euro-Mediterranean collaborative projects enabled by e-Infrastructures

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Coordination of agricultural research in the Mediterranean: e-Infrastructure tools

Annamaria Marzetti, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, Italy -

ARIMNET

Session 2: Euro-Mediterranean collaborative projects enabled by e-Infrastructures

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ICT education in the globalized world of today: new challenges

Salem Al-Agtash, Yarmouk University, Jordan

Session 2: Euro-Mediterranean collaborative projects enabled by e-Infrastructures

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Learning from the Past, Looking at the Present, Moving into the Future

Cosimo Notarstefano, Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI)

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Mohamed Swehli

Libyan Board of Medical Specialties

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Session 3: Medium-term perspective of research networking development

NREN sustainability

Valentino Cavalli, TERENA

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Telecommunications infrastructure in the Mediterranean: trends and opportunities

Spiros Livieratos, GRNET

(Greek Research and Education network)

Session 3: Medium-term perspective of research networking development

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Panel session: Building sustainable institutions for the Mediterranean

Co-operating with Europe and the Mediterranean - the view from the Gulf

Steven Winstanley, ANKABUT, UAE

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Panel session: Building sustainable institutions for the Mediterranean

Session chair: Dany Vandromme, RENATER (French Research and Education network)

Panellists: • Dai Davies, General Manager, DANTE • Leonardo Flores Añover, European Commission, Information

Society and Media • Yousef Altorman, Executive Director Jordanian Universities

Network • Johnathon Chapman, Georgetown University, School of

Foreign Service in Qatar • Saleh Hashem Mustafa Abdel-Razeq, Secretary General,

Association of Arab Universities

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Conclusions

David West, DANTE

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Thank you!