Connecting Infrastructure, Connecting Research

NGS Collaboration Board

The NGS Collaboration Board provides a mechanism by which resource exchanging (partner or affiliate) NGS member institutions can guide and influence the NGS and the services it provides to UK academia. The Collaboration board will have representation from all resource providing member institutions of the NGS and a direct line of communication to the NGS Project Board established via a set of regional representatives.

Membership Process

Each NGS member institution nominates a representative who will be required to attend meetings of the board (at most 4 per year). The individual members of the Collaboration Board should have an institutional view of the national e-infrastructure required by their institution and as such are able to guide the NGS to provide suitable underpinning services.

To ensure that organisations and the NGS have flexibility in representation to the Collaboration Board the following applies:

• New nominations may be made at any time during the period and will supersede previous nominations.

• Should there be an extended period of non-attendance then the NGS may ask for re-nomination to occur.

The nomination template should be used (available below) and returned to the NGS on institutional headed paper signed by a senior member of institutional management. For example, in the case of a HEI, the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research.