PIONIER-LAB

Basic Project Information

Project title: PIONIER-LAB – National Platform for Integration of Research Infrastructures with Innovation Ecosystems
Implementing institution: National Information Processing Institute (OPI)
Priority axis: 4. Increasing scientific research potential
Action: 4.2 Development of modern research infrastructure for the science sector
Project number: POIR.04.02.00-30-A005/16-00
Project value: 525,691,452.55 PLN
Website: https://pionier-lab.pionier.net.pl/

Project Objectives

The main goal of the PIONIER-LAB project is to provide ICT technology support for users conducting research beyond the ICT domain, thereby enabling interdisciplinary research in key areas within the PIONIER-LAB ecosystem. Additionally, the project aims to facilitate research in critical areas of new technologies related to social Internet, secure e-commerce, and next-generation networks. These goals will be achieved through the development of an integrated ecosystem of advanced research infrastructures, based on core backbone infrastructure and a range of specialized infrastructures, including those for security, transactional systems, and multimedia.

Gdańsk University of Technology's CI TASK will modernize or establish eight state-of-the-art laboratories:

• Metropolitan Area Network Laboratory (including renewal of the TASK network),
• Time and Frequency Standard Laboratory,
• Smart Campus Laboratory as part of Smart City – development of a technology demonstrator for use in a smart city, e.g. covering the entire campus with a “radio umbrella” enabling wireless data acquisition from sensors, video monitoring, thermal energy monitoring and control, traffic monitoring, lighting control,
• Regional Living Labs for ICT-inspired Innovations,
• Cloud Services Laboratory,
• Multiscale Simulation Laboratory,
• e-Training Laboratory and Services (focused on PIONIER-LAB and ICT-driven innovations),
• Pre-incubator services – virtual office and shared services (legal and accounting), group work, telementoring.

Project Timeline

Project phases:

• 01.01.2021 – Start date
• 31.12.2023 – End date

Consortium

• Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (consortium leader),
• Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of AGH University of Science and Technology,
• National Research Institute – Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK),
• Bialystok University of Technology,
• Gdańsk University of Technology – CI TASK (Academic Computer Center of the Tri-City Academic Network),
• Koszalin University of Technology,
• Lodz University of Technology,
• Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom,
• Rzeszów University of Technology,
• Kielce University of Technology,
• Wrocław University of Science and Technology,
• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin,
• Nicolaus Copernicus University,
• University of Opole,
• Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz,
• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
• University of Warsaw – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling,
• University of Zielona Góra,
• West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin