The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC)

The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) contributes to Nordic research excellence by providing e-infrastructure solutions wherever and whenever the countries can achieve more together than by working on their own.

This will be accomplished through collaborations based in the national e-infrastructure providers, their national research communities and in conjunction with other international collaborations. NeIC takes on two major roles.

The first is the operational responsibility for the Nordic distributed Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (WLCG) Tier-1 facility, which provides computing and storage for CERN to be used by high energy physicists worldwide. This research activity is expected to continue through 2038.

The second role is to explore, evaluate, develop, and deploy innovative infrastructure services in response to common strategic priorities within the Nordic region.

NeIC will build towards the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Vision 2030 to increase research productivity, long term impacts and benefits.This application is for Sweden´s membership and participation in NeIC.

Sweden has since the inception of NeIC been represented in the NeIC Board by SNIC and will from 2023 be represented by NAISS.

Sweden is actively involved in all of the current NeIC activities and projects, which enables Swedish researchers’ to conduct scientifically prominent research.