Impact

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Impacts of the Sci-GaIA project:

• Sci-GaIA has had a substantial impact on the scientific and technological collaboration between Europe and Africa in several domains and on important topics such as e-Infrastructure creation and operation and extension of the ERA beyond the southern border of Europe.
  • Means of verification:
    • The deliverable D2.4 - Energising Scientific Endeavour: Experiences of Supporting Communities of Practice with Science Gateways and eInfrastructures
    • Communities
    • “Champions”
    • “Champions” videos

• Sci-GaIA made African (as well as European) research and researchers more “visible” worldwide and contributed to the nowadays key topic of discoverability, reproducibility and extensibility of science products (also by the so-called “citizen scientist”).
  • Means of verification:
    • The deliverable D3.2 - Science Gateway and e Infrastructure Service Provision: Update and Sustainability

• Sci-GaIA promoted worldwide standards and widely accepted guidelines defined in Europe (such as those of EUDAT and OpenAIRE) on Open Access and Data Preservation, in order to achieve a better interoperation and interoperability of e-Infrastructures, including especially Open Data Infrastructures.
  • Means of verification:
    • The Sci-GaiA Open Science Platform
    • The deliberable D1.2 - Final e Infrastructure Success and Uptake Monitoring Report with recommendations
    • The deliverable D1.3 - e-Infrastructure Sentinel report
    • The deliverable D3.2 - Science Gateway and e Infrastructure Service Provision: Update and Sustainability

• Sci-GaIA significantly contributed to the creation of didactic materials that will be included in official curricula in Africa, Europe and beyond.
  • Means of verification:
    • Training and educational material repository
    • The deliverable D4.3 - Second Year Events Report

The above impact were measured by a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) whose target values and status at the end of the project can be inspected in this page.

KPI thresholds made Sci-GaIA a really challenging and ambitious - but also successful - project and the achievability of the objectives were constantly monitored during all its lifetime. In terms of the potential of Sci-GaIA meeting these objectives and creating a major breakthrough in the deployment of e-Infrastructures in Africa that are interoperable with those in Europe and the rest of the world, the following positive pre-conditions were key enablers:

• The progressive deployment of the AfricaConnect (and AfricaConnect2) infrastructure, that is already happening now and will continue in the next years;
• The very promising results already achieved by past projects, such as eI4Africa and CHAIN-REDS;
• The many CoPs already approached and the several promising ones already identified;
• The strong consortium;
• The commitment of both Sub-Saharan RRENs (the Ubuntunet Alliance and WACREN).

The impact map of the Sci-GaIA project can be browsed in this page.