Enlighten Your Research

About Enlighten Your Research

Explore benefits of network

SURFnet organizes various activities for both researchers and local ICT departments. One of these activities is the contest Enlighten Your Research (EYR). This competition gives researchers of all disciplines the opportunity to explore the benefits of the network for their research.

Past editions

In the past four years, three of these competitions have been delivered.

In EYR1 (2007) researchers were asked to submit a proposal for the application of one or more fixed lightpaths (national or international)
EYR2 (2009) aimed at promoting the use of dynamic lightpaths.
EYR3 (2011) focused not just on the use of SURFlightpaths, but on e-Infrastructure in general by collaborating with other infrastructure partners.

In 2012, we will start the preparations for a fourth competition.

Partners

Winners Enlighten Your Research 3

1st prize:
Next generation networking for next generation sequencing
Lead applicant: Jan Bot (TU Delft)
Partners: TU Delft, AMC, RUG, Erasmus MC, Hubrecht, LUMC, VU Amsterdam, WUR, BGI (Hong Kong) en Complete Genomics (USA)

2nd prize:
Implementation of a Centralized Image Processing Unit to facilitate Large-Scale Population Imaging Studies
Lead applicant: Henri Vrooman (Erasmus MC)
Partners: Erasmus MC, LUMC, TU Delft

Shared 3rd prize:
Stream in the Netherlands: an E-Infrastructure for Distributed Visual Analysis of Flooding Scenarios
Lead applicant: Gerwin de Haan (Delft University of Technology)
Partners: Delft University of Technology, Donald Smits Centre for Information Technology (Groningen University), Alterra

Shared 3rd prize:
CONCLUDE: Connecting climate model data for scientific users and decision-makers
Lead applicant: Wilco Hazeleger (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI)
Partners: KNMI, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)

Sustainability prize:
High-Performance Distributed Multi-Model / Multi-Kernel Simulations
Lead applicant: Frank Seinstra (VU University Amsterdam)
Partners: VU Amsterdam, Universiteit Leiden, Universiteit Utrecht