In EGEE many universities and organisations, currently active in European Grid projects like DataGrid, CrossGrid, and GridStart, are involved. About sixty companies have expressed interest, including potential Grid users as CGG and OpenPlast. To co-ordinate this, an EGEE Industry Forum has been established.

The EGEE main lines of action are Software re-engineering, production support and operations, validation and deployment. There will be several Grid operation centres, user support and training will be provided and Grid technology sites will be formed. Validation will be through two main applications: High Energy Physics and biology. But deployment is foreseen in many other academic fields and in the industrial world.

The operational infrastructure of the EGEE Grid wil consist of three layers. First there is the EGEE Operations Mangement centre at CERN in Geneva. There will be three Core Infrastructure Centres in the UK, France and Italy. In other European regions, there will be Regional Operations Centres.

EGEE will make use of the mechanism of Virtual Organisations to provide support for applications. Virtual Organisations have a well defined membership and a well defined set of resources associated with them. These resources can belong to the pool of the Virtual Organisation or be part of the general pool of EGEE resources.

According to Guy Wormser, the only success criterium of EGEE is how many satisfied users from many different domains there will be. After two years in 2005, the initial funding period, EGEE aims to have 3000 users from at least five different disciplines.

Guy Wormser also showed some results of the DataGrid project with software version EDG 1.4.3. The testbed included 1075 processors and 15 Tbyte of storage at 12 sites in 5 countries. There were 12 Virtual Organisations defined ranging from 3 to 106 users.