VI-SEEM, a three-year project that will unify the existing e-Infrastructures in South-east Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (SEEM) in order to facilitate regional interdisciplinary collaboration among the scientific communities dealing with Life Sciences, Climatology and Digital Cultural Heritage, was launched this October. The project will create a Virtual Research Environment where scientists from these three fields will be able to carry out collaborative research by using adequate data storage, computing and visualization resources, as well as sharing data, software, and tools relevant for their work.