ORIENTplus · Linking European and Chinese Research Infrastructures and Communities

Between 2007 and 2010 the ORIENT project provided the first high capacity link between GEANT and China with FP6 funding support and successfully enabled many innovative EU-China research and application collaborations to flourish. ORIENTplus addresses Section 3.4 domain (f) of the call (International cooperation in Research and Education Networking addressing (i) the extension of the European infrastructure to China ") to maintain and further develop infrastructure between GEANT and China that is open for use by all European and Chinese researchers. ORIENTplus requires EC funding support to increase the capacity and offer point to point services on the link during the project term.<br/>In ORIENT China was formally represented by CERNET