Results from the first flexible funding call

We are excited to announce the projects that have been funded during our first Flexible Funding call. These projects will help create the roadmap towards a federated compute service, and we will introduce each project in detail in the months to come. For now, the titles of the projects and the organisations of the project members are:

• ACCoRD: A Community For Contract Regulation For Data — University College London
• Bridging the Gap: Aligning Project Administration with Access to Digital Research Infrastructure — The Rosalind Franklin Institute
• Enhancing HPC Adoption Through User-Centred Design: A Roadmap for Inclusive Innovation in Environment, Health, and the Built Environment — University of the West of England
• Exploring the governance requirements for enabling UK DRIs to adopt MyAccessID — University of Bristol, Cambridge University, Hartree Centre, University College London
• Exploring the requirements and technologies for a data centre API for federated data movement — University of Bristol, The Rosalind Franklin Institute
• Federated AI Application Container Platform/Registry Feasibility Study — Cambridge University, University of Bristol, University College London
• Federated data movement — Durham University, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Federated Edge–HPC Architectures for AI Workflows in Privacy-Sensitive and Real-Time Domains — Cardiff University, Newcastle University
• Federated IAM for existing infrastructures — University of Edinburgh
• Federation of Compute and Infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities — University of Brighton, King’s College London
• Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for National Federated Compute Services — University College London, UoE, Hartree Centre
• UKRI Research Data Landscape Survey — University of Edinburgh
• UNITED (User Needs Informed Technologies for Environmental Data): A Framework for Federated Computing Roadmaps — National Oceanography Centre, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Manchester, British Geological Survey