Research communities and Research Infrastructures push the frontiers of science, with instrumentations, massive data and computational requirements. They have an international nature, decades-long life time, and strong need for shared e-infrastructures. We provide both services and expertise for community-specific solutions that help them serve their user base. The EGI Foundation acts as the main contact point with the head organisations, while the EGI Participants engage via their local contacts. Since 2010, we have supported tens of Research Infrastructures and international research communities, most of them included in the ESFRI roadmap

They are typically represented by EC-funded projects at the European scale. While such projects have limited lifetime they cover many niche domains and regions. To this target group EGI is offering IT services and technical support to run proof-of-concept and pilot setups to tackle the scientific communities’ challenges, or as Infrastructure provider to provision and operate the communities’ e-Infrastructures needs which can be used to analyse big data analytics and support advanced research.