Joint research activities may include:

• higher performance methodologies and protocols, higher performance instrumentation, including the testing of components, subsystems, materials, techniques and dedicated software;

• integration of installations and infrastructures into virtual facilities, innovative solutions for data collection, management, curation and annotation;

• innovative solutions for communication network;

• novel grid architecture frameworks and policies, innovative grid technologies, or new middleware solutions driving the emergence of high level interoperable services;

• advanced Service Level Agreements and innovative licensing schemes, fostering the adoption of e-Infrastructures by industry;

• innovative software solutions for making new user communities benefit from computing services.