European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics – ERCIM
ERCIM, founded in 1988, is an EEIG which provides simple and effective management for joint
projects between its members. ERCIM has its central office located in France and acts as a frontend to access the scientific expertise of its members. ERCIM members are all research
organisations, or national consortia of research organisations and universities, with strong activity
in I.T. research, namely: AARIT (Austria), CCLRC (UK), CRCIM (Czech Republic), CWI (The
Netherlands), CNR (Italy), FNR (Luxembourg), FNRS/FWO (Belgium), FORTH (Greece), FhG
(Germany), INRIA (France), NTNU (Norway), SARIT (Switzerland), SICS (Sweden),
SPARCIM (Spain), SRCIM (Slovakia), SZTAKI (Hungary), TCD (Ireland), VTT (Finland),
PLERCIM (Poland), PEG (Portugal). ERCIM also became the European host for the W3C on
January 1, 2003.
The central ERCIM Office in Sophia Antipolis, France will coordinate the project. Since 1990,
the ERCIM Office team has developed a proven expertise in managing research projects and
large networks, and has been involved in over 30 projects funded by various European
Community programmes. Community-funded projects under the Seventh Framework Programme
include the D4Science project and Coordination and Support Actions Digital World Forum and
MobiWeb2.0. Sixth Framework Programme projects funded by the EC and managed by ERCIM
Office include the Networks of Excellence DELOS, MUSCLE and CoreGRID, Specific Support
Action GRID@ASIA, Coordination Action EchoGRID, STREP GridCOMP and Net-WMS, and
Integrated Projects DILIGENT, ACGT and VITALAS. The ERCIM Office has also a very
valuable competence in results dissemination, as part of its assets rest with customized web
design, set-up and assistance, and the edition of the ERCIM News magazine (over 10000 copies
distributed worldwide). This, combined with the nineteen research organizations disseminated
across Europe makes ERCIM a key player in European IT research and development, and a
reliable foothold for international co-operation.
Patricia Ho-Hune graduated from the University of Paris XI and obtained her
PhD in chemistry at Loughborough University (UK) in 2002. She worked as a
research chemist for a pharmaceutical company where she was involved in a
FP5 European project. In 2005 she joined the European Polysaccharide
Network of Excellence (EPNoE) and was in charge of the administrative
project management as well as the organisation of research activities. She
joined ERCIM in October 2006 and has been managing several successful
projects such as the MUSCLE NoE, the GridCOMP STREP, the EchoGRID
SSA and the Interlink CA.
Jérôme Chailloux worked at INRIA as a researcher from 1980 to 1987 and
became research director, whilst occupying several teaching positions (École
Polytechnique, CERICS). He worked in the areas of automatic VLSI circuit
design, software engineering and knowledge based systems, and is the main
inventor and developer Le-Lisp. From 1987 to 1995, Jérôme Chailloux cofounded ILOG, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director.
From 1995 to 2001, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics
company GENSET and led one of the largest European team of
bioinformaticians. Since May 2005, he is Manager of ERCIM.
ERCIM will be in charge of the Administrative and Financial management of the project.