Presented at eChallenges e-2009 Conference , Istanbul, Turkey, 21st October 2009.

1. Challenges Faced in Building a Virtual Organization for Seismology in South Eastern Europe Can Özturan Bilal Bektaş, Mehmet Yılmazer Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and Cevat Şener Middle East Tech. University, Ankara Turkey

2. Motivation for a Seismology Virtual Org. Investments worth billions of euro s Interested Organizations Many Users Software Costs Realistic Models Grid e-Infrastructures Massive Seismology Data and Computational Power Decision Support Systems Software Knowledge workers Engineers, Researchers Insurance companies, Municipalities , Governmental Institutes , Civil engineering, Seismology / Earthquake Departments in Universities Construction of highways, bridges, dams and factories, Insurance premiums, Renovation of risky structures, Construction standards Emergency response after earthquakes

5. Research Objectives Collaborating Organization s Country Polytechnic University of Tirana Albania National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Armenia Seismological Department, in Geophysical Institute of BAS Bulgaria Department of Geophysics in Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University Hungary Seismological Observatory of Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius FYR of Macedonia Institute of Geology and Seismology of ASM Moldova Seismological Survey of Serbia Serbia Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute , Dept. of Computer Eng ineering , Boğaziçi University Turkey Middle East Technical University Turkey

7. Research A pproach and M ethodology SEE Country 1 Applications Programming tool ( Data Iterators) SEE Country 2 SEE Country n ... Distributed storage and indexing of data on grid using AMGA All European Countries Earthquake and seismic waveform data Earthquake and seismic waveform data Earthquake and seismic waveform data NERIES / ORFEUS Datacanter

10. Major O utcomes and Results

11. Major O utcomes and Results