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This document provides a source of information and support for decision-making regarding the potential governance model for the Helix Nebula Initiative. It shows how the European Science Cloud could be managed and supported, once the business models are chosen and implemented.

During May and September 2014 the Flagship Application Deployment activity was undertaken as part of the Helix Nebula initiative and was coordinated as part of the FP7 project activity.

During the deployments, the Flagship applications of CERN, ESA and EMBL were deployed on to the two Blue Box platforms created for the purposes of the initiative, one was open source solution (SlipStream) and the other a commercial solution (EnStratius).

The purpose of this document is to report on the outcomes and impact of the Helix Nebula Communication and Dissemination Strategy of the project.

The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in e-infrastructure and related activity in a number of research communities as a result of funding by the European Commission in the 7th (and earlier) Framework Programmes and by corresponding national investments. Consequent to this investment in capacity, research communities are presented with several individually excellent, but independent – cross-layer initiatives which present researchers with sometimes inconsistent technical approaches and disjointed managerial structures to achieving a production quality infrastructure.