During a Council session of the European Grid Initiative (EGI) in Amsterdam, six new members of the EGI Executive Board were appointed - among them Professor Michał Turała from the AGH-UST Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET, a representative of PL-Grid in the EGI Board. Members of the Executive Board (EB) are individuals who determine the areas of development and co-ordinate the activities of EGI. An important area of the EB activity will also be the development of new EGI projects intended for funding from the European Union.

The mission of EGI is ensuring the long-standing maintenance of the European e-infrastructure and the co-ordination of integration and collaboration between National Grid Initiatives (NGI) in order to sustain the grid production infrastructure for scientists and researchers representing various disciplines of science. EGI is composed of NGIs from all over Europe. Poland is represented in EGI by AGH-UST CYFRONET, being the initiator and co-ordinator of the PL-Grid programme (Polish NGI), whose aim is the development of the Polish cluster metacomputer.