EchoGRID and EUChinaGRID , two projects funded by the European Commission, jointly organise the 1st international conference on EU and Chinese grid experiences . This event took place on 24-25 April in Beijing at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science.

As part of this international conference, INRIA provided a free course on 26-27 April on ProActive, the Open Source GRID middleware, at the Super Computing Center, CAS, in Beijing.