DPE: Competence Centres: National eScience Centre (NeSC)

National eScience Centre (NeSC), UK

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NeSC Mission Statement
- To stimulate and sustain the development of e-Science in the UK, to contribute significantly to its international development and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry.
- To identify and support e-Science projects within and between institutions in Scotland, and to provide the appropriate technical infrastructure and support in order to ensure rapid uptake of e-Science techniques by Scottish scientists.
- To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applications
- To develop advances in scientific data curation and analysis and to be a primary source of top quality systems and repositories that enable management, sharing and best use of research data.
eSI Mission Statement
- To stimulate the creation of new insights in e-Science and computing science by providing the "reactor vessel and catalysts" which bring together international experts and encourage them to successfully address significant and diverse challenges.

Areas of competence: - R&D - data curation - science centre


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