On July 20th the European Commission issued incentive calls to reinforce international, and especially US-Europe, cooperation through interoperable research infrastructures that could be implemented through a non-biding partnership with the National Science Foundation of USA.
Emphasis is put on developing common policies adressing the full life cycle of data, promoting interoperable e-infrastructures services for scientific data, and coordinating and supporting actions in e-infrastructures. This splinter meeting is intended to discuss possible answers to these calls which will be closed on November 23rd 2011.