by Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT)

The ERCIM blockchain Working Group [L1] organised a workshop in Amsterdam on 8-9 June in conjunction with the ERCIM spring meetings. The purpose of this workshop was to look at what the general excitement about blockchain technologies means for computer science research and to identify the major research challenges in this area.

VRE4EIC, an H2020 European research project managed by ERCIM, has released a series of video tutorials. Short online videos are explaining how to build a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) or to enhance an existing VRE. VRE4EIC has developed a reference architecture and software components for building VREs.