People that are considering studying at White Rose Grid e-Science Centre will find it to be ideally suited to study grid technologies and services. The main mission of White Rose Grid e-Science Centre is for it to become a leader in providing as well as delivering grid technologies and services in an international area. Furthermore, the White Rose Grid e-Science Centre has some objectives that include e-Science research, foster scientific communities, have a wider reach, assessing markets for grid technologies, and forming of a network of grid communities.

At the White Rose Grid e-Science Centre it is possible for a number of researchers coming from all over Yorkshire that are already partaking in e-Science studies to come together so that it leads to better Grid technologies being developed. There are a number of activities that the White Rose Grid e-Science Centre is engaged in including EPRSRC project, CARMEN, COLAB, Grid-FIT, as well as MoSeS or Modeling and Simulation for e-social Science. Among its notable achievements is DAME or Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment that was undertaken under the charge of Prof. Austin and which was a three and a half million pound e-Science project that led to the development of generic test-bed to distribute diagnostics and its major use was for providing distributed maintenance environment for Rolls Royce along with Data Systems and Solutions that dealt with the information requirements for Rolls Royce.

The White Rose Consortium is made up of York, Leeds and Sheffield Universities and they have a combined income as well as capacity to research that far exceed any other UK university. In fact, the White Rose Grid e-Science Centre of Excellence is managing many different collaborative projects within some of the regional universities along with their industrial partners and the aim is to build as well as expand and exploit the newer IT infrastructure as also the grid that itself consists of certain elements that are conducive to collaboration in the realm of research computing within this region. In fact, as far as the grid is concerned, it is a project in which three White Rose universities are collaborating on including those of Sheffield, Leeds and also York along with their associated Information Technology partners of which Sun Microsystems and Esteem Systems form a part as does Streamline Computing.

In order to sustain most of the e-Research programmes that are being conducted that involves scientific as well as global collaborations (thanks to the Internet), the White Rose Grid recently made an announcement that it would further fund this work for another couple of years. The White Rose Grid e-Science Centre of Excellence is the culmination of much effort made by the White Rose Grid, when in 2003 the former evolved out of the latter and it is now involved in pioneering to establish multi-campus regional grid as well as to develop technologies related to grid as also e-Sciences.