"ICT for open access to scientific information" was the motto was held on 28 May in Brussels headquarters of the Promotion of Science Polish Academy of Sciences meeting with experts of the European Commission. The event, part of the project "Poland Meetings”, also attended by representatives of Polish research teams, including the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

The EU FP7 DORII project coordinated by PSNC was awarded for the best technical demo during 5th EGEE User Forum in Uppsala.

The International Supercomputing Conference also known as ISC for the first time gathers the environment of manufacturers, software and system developers and high performance computer users. It is the largest European HPC event, taking place from 23 to 26 of June 2009 in Hamburg. It is already the third time that the PIONIER Consortium represents the Polish science at the accompanying exhibition among 120 other exhibitors from 45 countries.