The goal of the European project EGEE III is to expand and optimise Europe's largest production Grid infrastructure, namely EGEE, by continuous operation of the infrastructure, support for more user communities, and addition of further computational and data resources. EGEE III will prepare the migration of the existing production European Grid from a project-based model to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National Grid Initiatives for multi-disciplinary use.

EDGeS, Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science, is a European project that aims to create an integrated grid infrastructure across Europe. It will build a two way bridge between Desktop Grids, as used by the SETI@home project, made up of hundreds of thousands of PCs, with service grids such as the computing cluster-based EGEE.

EDGeS will seek out applications that would benefit from running over Desktop Grids, looking to the areas of fusion, biomedicine, engineering, chemistry and industry. For EGEE, this means that EDGeS will open up new and interesting applications, freeing up cluster resources if jobs can run on the Desktop Grid instead. The Desktop Grid community will expand and also benefit from the high end cluster computing resources offered by the EGEE Grid, when they are available. By integrating existing national and international Service Grids and Desktop Grids, EDGeS will contribute to the vision of a sustainable Grid infrastructure in Europe.

At the EGEE08 in Istanbul the EDGeS booth and demonstration was awarded the second price in the category "Best infrastructure demo and best service demo".