E-Infrastructure Reflection Group

European intergovernmental advisory group The E-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) is a European inter-governmental advisory group dealing with policies on electronic infrastructures (e-Infrastructures) for research, i.e. research networks, computing, software and data infrastructures that mainly serve students, researchers and scientists. It advises and recommends actions towards the European Commission (DG CONNECT), the EU Member states governments (Research or Science Ministries), e-Infrastructure providers and users, as well as other bodies such as ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures). On 3 December 2009 EU Competitiveness Council Archived 2018-03-08 at the Wayback Machine in its conclusions "welcomed the work of the e-IRG to address policy related barriers for the shared use of e-Infrastructures". "A specific role for e-IRG and ESFRI in reinforcing European policy for research infrastructures" was also foreseen in the publication of the European Commission proposal for Horizon 2020 and that the e-IRG and ESFRI will be consulted during the H2020 implementation. Further roles for e-IRG are also included in the European Research Area (ERA) EC Communica