Aims

• The task force aims to develop a framework for research engagement through a set of reports, workshops, and best practices to help participating NRENs support their research communities. This will result in: 

1. 1. Increasing our understanding of research workflows (beyond the “usual suspects” such as high-energy physics); 
   2. Gathering and sharing information, which can be used to improve network/research architecture and design; 
   3. Understanding what is important to researchers so that NRENs (and other infrastructures) can be more responsive to their needs; 
   4. Building a body of knowledge about research applications (for instance, as correlated to network utilization), which can be cited in interactions with larger community and policy efforts.

• The task force is open to anyone to participate and we will seek collaboration with other infrastructures (such as Elixir, Clarin, EPOS, ELI, ESS, EUDAT, EGI, PRACE etc.), but also other projects (European Open Science Cloud) with respect to research engagement efforts as a framework is developed within the NREN community.
   
• By-products of TF-RED will include:
  
  

  •  Supporting research collaborations that want to collaborate internationally;

  •  Establishing a continuous and permanent information flow between RENs and Science and Research communities;

  •  Coordinating reliable, predictable network behaviour in support of end-user (research) applications;

  •  Improving performance of network-centric and data-centric workflows.