Mission Statement
General facts about eSSENCE
eSSENCE is an e-Science collaboration formed by the universities in Uppsala, Lund and Umeå.
See also Contact or Organization
The eSSENCE consortium is part of a long-term Government effort on Strategic Research Areas (Strategiska forskningsområden, SFO in Swedish) initiated in the research bill from 2008, most lately described in the bill from 2016 (Knowledge in collaboration – for society’s challenges and strengthened competitiveness, Proposition 2016/17: 50).
Mission
eSSENCE provides an internationally top-level research environment in that it integrates e-Science research in all areas of science, as well as in education and in collaboration with society.
Strategy
The eSSENCE research
- increases the quality and progress of digital research by providing new and more efficient models, methods, algorithms and software in computational and data-intensive application areas,
- launches new and more effective methods for utilizing e-Infrastructure,
- creates a national hub for collaboration between partner universities, between different research areas and disciplines, and between society, business and academia, and
- strengthens the e-Science aspects in education at different levels.