ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading European research institutes are members of ERCIM
The ERCIM community is supported by a Consortium of two bodies:
- ERCIM AISBL an international non for profit association under Belgian law, carrying on the activities of ERCIM concerning collaborative research, networking, and support.
- ERCIM EEIG, the European Economic Interest Grouping, the European Economic Interest Grouping, responsible for managing the ERCIM Office and hosting the W3C European Host.
Cooperation and Partnerships
- ERCIM considers it a high priority to develop cooperation with scientists all over the world.
- ERCIM hosts the European branch of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the unique international standardization body which sets the Web standards and protocols (HTML, HTTP, XML, etc.) since 1994.
- ERCIM has also established cooperation with ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and with the European Mathematical Society.
- ERCIM is a member of the European Forum for ICST (EFICST). Its objective is to have a stronger, unified voice for ICST professionals in Europe.
- ERCIM and Ideal-ist have established a cooperation to disseminate ICT partner searches with the objective to increase the participation of ERCIM member organisation in the European Unition's ICT Programme.
Current members:
- CNR (Italy)
- CRCIM (Czech Republic)
- CWI (Netherlands)
- FNR (Luxembourg)
- FORTH-ICS (Greece)
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)
- FNRS/FWO (Belgium)
- INESC (Portugal)
- Inria (France)
- ISI (Greece)
- NTNU (Norway)
- SBA (Austria)
- SICS (Sweden)
- SOTON (UK)
- SpaRCIM (Spain)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- SZTAKI (Hungary)
- UCY (Cyprus)
- UNIGE (Switzerland)
- UWAW (Poland)
- UWRO (Poland)
- VTT (Finland)
