The event held on 1^st July 2009 had over 30 sites connected sites connected from 25 countries and supported by among others “The Global Project  “ and “e-Infrastructures

The FP7 is open to a wide category of participants including researchers where funding of scientific research projects for research groups, individuals and cooperative research projects  is provided.

The Research Infrastructures part of the FP7 Capacities Programme supports a very innovative way of conducting scientific research (e-Science) by the creation of a new environment for academic and industrial research in which virtual communities share, federate and exploit the collective power of European scientific facilities.

Thus e-Infrastructure refers to this new research environment in which all researchers - whether working in the context of their home institutions or in national or multinational scientific initiatives - have shared access to unique or distributed scientific facilities (including data, instruments, computing and communications), regardless of their type and location in the world.

The main goal of GLOBAL is be to allow and help research projects to disseminate their results and training events to a wider audience located in multiple geographical locations through the organization of virtual conferences. GLOBAL provides a user-centric interface for planning, creation, announcement, coordination, content management and realisation of virtual conferences with open and wide participation. Through these virtual conferences the participating users are be able to exchange information on e-infrastructure development in their region, identify partners for future collaboration and exchange and discuss synergies between their running initiatives.

Slides, recording/streaming and everything related to the event can be found in: http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/GLOBAL_e Infrastructure_Networking_Event_II#Program