Part b type of funding scheme

5.Gender Action Plan

The ROSCOE project and its participating institutes fully support the European initiative to eliminate gender inequalities and promote gender equality throughout the European Community in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of the EC Treaty (gender mainstreaming) as well as Article 141 (equality between women and men in matters of employment and occupation) and Article 13 (sex discrimination within and outside work place).

Despite the conclusion of the Commission report “Gender In Research” of the 5th Framework Programme (Environment and Sustainable Development sub-programme, Annex 1, Page 18), that “the natural science oriented climate of research turns out to be more or less gender neutral”, within the technical disciplines represented in ROSCOE (primarily large scale computer systems administration and software development) women are generally very much under-represented.

For this reason the “ROSCOE gender action plan” will have a role to play in ensuring that fairness and equality of opportunity exist within, and are promoted by, the ROSCOE project. This plan will be designed around the advice to FP7 partners on gender issues and incorporate actions designed to: increase women’s participation at all levels, to raise gender-issues awareness where appropriate, and highlight the responsibilities of the beneficiaries as to implementation of gender-mainstreaming policies. To ensure delivery, specific responsibility for oversight of gender issues, and implementation of the plan will be assigned to the NA1 Quality Coordinator in the role of gender / equal opportunities coordinator.

The Gender Action Plan will be incorporated in the Quality, Measurement, and Gender Action Plans milestone. The Gender Action Plan will describe the activities planned to raise gender awareness in the project. Report on the Gender Action Plan activities throughout the project will be included within the project’s Periodical Reports.

Whilst operating within the letter and spirit of the sex-equality / equal-opportunity legislation within in each nation, ROSCOE will address the current bias in specific areas:

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  From the outset the ROSCOE project will strongly discourage the use of inappropriate language or discussion with an implied stereotyping or gender-bias.
  
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  The selection of staff to be employed in ROSCOE posts is an area where equality of opportunity must be delivered. Most staff involved in the project will already be in post. Where recruitment of staff is required it will be undertaken by individual institutions under their normal national employment practices, but general advice on recruitment (e.g., wording of advertisements, composition of interview and selection panels, and the desirability of ensuring all staff involved in interview and selection processes receive equal opportunities training) will be provided by the ROSCOE project office.
  
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  The ROSCOE project office will undertake to collate the statistics on gender distribution of applications, short-lists and final appointments.
  
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  Where appropriate, and where it is compatible with delivery of science outputs within the time- constraints of the grant, the opportunity for flexible working hours, home-working, job-sharing will be offered to all staff.
  

6.Annex: References

7.Annex: Glossary

AAI	Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
AC	Autonomic Computing
ACL	Access Control List
AC-SIG	Autonomic Computing Special Interest Group
ADHO	Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
AFS	Andrew File System is a distributed networked file system
Alice	LHC physic experiment
AMGA	Metadata User interface
API	Application Programming Interface
ARC	Advanced Resource Connector - Middleware used in Nordugrid
ATLAS	LHC physics experiment
B	Billion
BBMRI	ESFRI project: Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure
BioinfoGRID	Life science project
BLAS	Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
CAC	Center for Autonomic Computing
CB	Collaboration Board
CCGRID	IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid
CCMST	Computational Chemistry & Materials Science Technology - VRC
CenterNet	Humanities Organization
CESSDA	ESFRI project: Council of European Social Science Data Archives
CIF	Data storage standard
CLARIN	ESFRI project: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
CLOC	Compact Linear Collider
CMS	LHC physics experiment
CO	COnfidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services).
COMPCHEM	Chemistry related Virtual Organization
COO	EGI.eu Chief/Central Operations Officer and head of the OU
COORD	Co-ordination
CoreGrid	European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies
COST	European Cooperation in Science and Technology
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CS	Complexity Science
CSE	Computer Science & Engineering
CTO	EGI.eu Chief/Central Technical Officer and head of the MU and the main entry point towards the MU
CUDA	Compute Unified Device Architecture
CUE	Creating Users of E-infrastructures
DARIAH	ESFRI project: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
DataGrid	European DataGrid project
dCache	Interface for exchanging data with backend (tertiary) Storage Systems as well as space management,
dcap/gsidcap IO	dCap is the native random access I/O protocol for files within dCache
DCI	Distributed Computing Infrastructures
DEISA	Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
Deliverable Nature	R = Report, P = Prototype, D = Demonstrator, O = Other
DFA	Deterministic Finite-state Automaton algorithm
DFT	Discrete Fourier Transform algorithm
DGAS	Distributed Grid Accounting System - EGEE
DH	Digital Humanities - VRC
DIANE	Master-worker workflow management layer above low-level grid services
DORII	Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure
EC	European Commission
EEIG	European Economic Interest Grouping
EELA	E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America
EGEE	Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGI	European Grid Infrastructure
EGI.eu	EGI management body
EIROforum	European Intergovernmental Research Organisations
EMBL	European Molecular Biology Laboratories
EMI	European Middleware Initiative
e-NMR	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Computational infrastructure project in system biology
EPOS	ESFRI project: European Plate Observing System
ERSF	European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap
ESA	European Space Agency
ESFRI	European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
ESRFup	ESFRI project: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility upgrade
ESS	ESFRI project: European Spallation Source
EU	European Union
EUAsiaGrid	Project aiming to promote the expansion of European Grid Infrastructures to countries in the Asia-Pacific region
EU-IndiaGrid	Joining European and Indian Grids for e-Science Network Community
European XFEL	ESFRI project: X-ray Free Electron Laser research infrastructure
EuroFEL	ESFRI project: Next generation Free Electron Laser research infrastructure
FAIR	Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
Ganga	Grid job management tool
GAUSSIAN	Chemistry related Virtual Organization
GGUS	Global Grid User Support
GILDA	Grid Infn Laboratory for Dissemination Activities
gLite	Lightweight Middleware for Grid - EGEE Middleware
GLUE	Grid Laboratory for a Uniform Environment
GMAC	Grids Meet Autonomic Computing
GO	Grid Observatory
GPL	GNU General Public License
GRID.IT	Old name for national grid initiative in Italy; replaced by IGI.
GridTalk-II	Project for disseminating information from communities to wider audience
GRISSOM	Grid portal: GRids for In Silico Systems BiOlogy and Medicine
GSI	Grid Security Infrastructure
gsidcap	Protocol is the dCap protocol with a GSI authentication
GWA	Grid Workflow Architecture
HDF5	Data storage standard format in photon sciences
HealthGrid	HealthGrid conference
HEP	High-Energy Physics
HEPiX	HEP Unix users
HERCULES	Photon Science school
HIPER	ESFRI project: European High Power laser Energy Research facility
HPC	High Performance Computing
HTC	High Throughput Computing
H	Humanities
H-VRC	Humanities VRC
Hydra	Encryption key server for encrypted data management on the grid
ICAC	IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
ICAS	ICAS - International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
ICCSA	International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications
ICQ	I SEEK YOU chats Protocol
ICT	Information and Communication Technology
IDG	Institut des Grilles (CNRS Grid Institute in France)
IGI	Italian Grid Initiative
ILC	International Linear Collider
EGI-InSPIRE	European project proposal related to EGI
INSTRUCT	ESFRI project: An Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure for Europe
IPR	Intellectual Property Rights
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
iSpyB	System for organizing and analyzing data
IWSGC	International Winter School of Grid Computing
jabber	Chat protocol
JRA	Joint Research Activity
JRA1	Work package: Data Management Evolution
JRA2	Work package: A Sustainable Operations Model
JRU	Joint Research Unit
LAPACK	Scientific linear algebra library
LCLS	Linac Coherent Light Source
LGPL	GNU Lesser General Public License
LHC	Large Hadron Collider
LHCb	LHC physics experiment
LifeWatch	ESFRI project: e-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories
LMS	Learning Management System
LoS	Letter of Support
LS	Life Sciences
LS VRC	Life Sciences VRC
Lustre	High performance parallel file system
MATLAB	MATLAB is a numerical computing environment commercialized by MathWorks
MB	VRC Management Board
MGT	Management of the consortium
MOTEUR	Grid-enabled data-intensive workflow manager
MPI	Message Passing Interface
MU	EGI.eu Middleware Unit.
Mx	Month x
MX	Multi-angle X-ray Photon Science experiment
myExperiment	Collaborative environment  for workflow exchange
NA1	Work package: Project Coordination
NA2	Work package: VRC Coordination
NA3	Work package: Dissemination & Training
Nagios	Open Source monitoring tool
NA	Networking Activity
NDGF	Nordic DataGrid Facility
NeXus	Data storage standard
NFS	Network File System
NGI	National Grid Initiative
NoE	Network of Excellence
NSF	National Science Foundation
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
OGF	Open Grid Forum
OpenCL	API for Open Computing Language
OpenID	Open, decentralized standard for authenticating users which can be used for access control, allowing users to log on to different services
OpenMP	Open Multi-processing - API for multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming
OU	EGI.eu Operations Unit
PanData	Pan-European Data Project
PB	Peta Bytes
PETRA III	Individual crystallographic and Small-Angle scattering experiments
P-GRADE	Parallel Grid Run-time and Application Development Environment
PI	Project Intelligence
PL-Grid	Polish National Grid Initiative
PM	Person Month
PMB	Project Management Board
PO	Project Office
PP	Restricted to other Programme Participants (including the Commission Services).
PRACE	ESFRI project: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe for HPC service
PS	Photon Science
PU	Public
QA	Quality Assurance
QC	Quantum Chemistry
QCD	Quantum Chromodynamics
QoS	Quality of Services
QoU	Quality of Users
R&D	Research & Development
RapidMind	Multi-core Development Platform
RE	REstricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services).
RESPECT	Recommended External Software for EGEE CommuniTies - EGEE tools repository
ROSCOE	Robust Scientific Communities for EGI
RTD	Research and technological development
SA1	Work package: User Support
SA2	Work package: Scientific Gateways
SA3	Work package: Targeted Application Porting
SAFE	SSCs for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Science, and Fusion
SAM	Service Availability Monitor
SAXS	Small-angle X-ray Scattering
SE	Storage Element
SGI	Scientific Gateway Initiative
Shibboleth	A standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries
S-LHC	ESFRI project: Super LHC
SLS	Service Level Status
SME	Small and Medium Enterprise
SOA	Service Oriented Architecture
SOMA2	Open Source Molecular Modelling Workflow Environment
SRM	Storage Resource Manager
SSC	Specialized Support Centre
STO	Support Team Operation
StratusLab	Project combining grid and cloud technologies
SVC	SerViCe activities
TAPAS	Project to Assist Porting Applications to e-Science infrastructures
Taverna	Tool for designing and executing workflows for grid
TeV	TeraelectronVolt
TGIR	Très Grands Instruments de Recherche
TMB	Technical Management Board
TURBOMOLE	Chemistry related Virtual Organization
UCO	EGI.eu User Coordination Officer and head of the User Community Services unit
UCS	EGI.eu User Community Services
UFSC	User Forum Steering Committee
UI	User Interface
UMD	Unified Middleware Distribution
UNICORE	Uniform Interface to Computing Resources - grid middleware used in DEISA
VBrowser	Virtual Resource Browser - frontend to the grid
VO	Virtual Organisation
VOCE	Generic VO used in Central Europe
VoIP	Voice over IP
VOMS	VO Management Service
VRC	Virtual Research Community
VUV-Laser FLASH	Vacuum UltraViolet laser Flash
WATOC	World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
WG	Working group
WISDOM	World-wide In Silico Docking On Malaria
WLCG	Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
WP	Work Package
XML	eXtensible Markup Language