EchoGRID delivered a final roadmap that identifies common areas of interest and opportunities for collaboration on Grid technologies between Europe and China. This roadmap provides a shared European and Chinese vision of future GRID research perspectives for both research and industrial communities for the next 3, 5 and 10 years. This vision establishes a clear Technological and Research Agenda on which both regions may collaborate.

EchoGRID is launching an open electronic endorsement on major challenges, research directions, and effective forms of European-Chinese collaboration in the addressed Thematic Areas.

The Grid community is warmly invited to actively participate in the EchoGRID roadmap electronic endorsement, and to contribute to shape the content and structure of future international R&D collaborations in the Grid area.

The following Thematic Areas are in focus in the context of this endorsement:

• New Programming Paradigms
• GRID Architectures - SoA
• GRID Management
• Virtual Organisation
• Component model
• Workflow / Business Process  

  Based on the final roadmap recently produced, we invite you to openly provide your comments and feedback.