Consortia and collaborations

CLARIN-PL is a Polish scientific consortium, part of the European Research Infrastructure CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure). It is made up of six research units that develop electronic language resources and tools for working with large collections of texts in Polish.

The Institute – the Freeway of Technology and Innovation (Instytut Autostrada Technologii i Innowacji – IATI) consortium was established in 2014 to integrate scientific and research work carried out by universities, independent research institutes and companies. The leaders of the consortium are the Stanislaw Staszic AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. The consortium consists of 49 institutions, including: 23 universities, 8 research institutes and 18 companies.

The PIONIER consortium is a formal agreement concluded on July 31, 2001 between the leading centers of Municipal Academic Networks and High-Performance Computing centers. WCSS is a member of this agreement.

The Platon consortium was established in 2008 in order to implement a project PLATON Science Services Platform, which was aimed at developing national technical infrastructure for science (the PIONIER network) with applications and services supporting scientific research and development works performed by Polish research teams.

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) is an initiative of European computing centers committed to developing grid infrastructure in Europe.

The Knowledge and Innovation Community for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cluster was established under an agreement concluded on June 5, 2007, in order to integrate the activities of universities, entrepreneurs and public institutions related to the ICT industry.

PL-Grid (Polish National Grid Initiative) is a grid computing infrastructure of national range. It was developed with the cooperation of five Polish High-Performance Computing centres.

Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing is a co-creator of the Polska Chmura (Polish Cloud) quality mark. The label, or rather a broad project, was created by the Polish Data Center Association to promote Polish cloud service providers whose data centers are located in the country.