University Library and Erasmus Studio receive SURF grant
The innovative project of the University Library of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and Erasmus Studio Virtual Knowledge Studio Collaboratory – Linking Scholarly Networks and Disciplines has received a €30,000 euro grant as part of the SURFshare program.
The project aims to create a webbased collaboratory in which researchers at different locations can collaborate and share results and resources.
The project is an initiative of the University Library EUR and the Erasmus Studio, a research institute at the EUR which promotes and studies e-research in the economic and social sciences and humanities. Besides Erasmus Studio two other institutes participate in this collaboratory: the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Maastricht Studio of the Maastricht University. At present about one hundred researchers are involved. The collaboratory will be developed by the University Library EUR in collaboration with the Econometric Institute of the EUR.
Duration of the project: 6 months, until 1 May 2008
Leader of the project: drs. Gert Goris, goris@ubib.eur.nl, 010 - 408 12 07
See for more information:
Erasmus Studio: www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio
Publication date: Tuesday, 20 November 2007
