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09 January | 2020The GÉANT Community pays tribute to Professor Peter KirsteinThe research and education networking community lost a key figure yesterday when British computer scientist Professor Peter Kirstein sadly passed away.
08 January | 2020CAREN CC to carry on the work of the CAREN projectIn Central Asia, the CAREN Coordination Centre established in 2017 and located in Bishkek, coordinates the provision of advanced services for academia in the region.
18 December | 2019AfricaConnect3 project to extend pan-African high-speed internet connectivity and services for research and educationFollowing the success of predecessor projects ‘AfricaConnect’ and ‘AfricaConnect2’, Africa’s three regional Research and Education Networks in partnership with GÉANT, have signed a new €37.5m contract agreement with the European Union.
09 December | 2019The GÉANT Community pays tribute to Dr. Lajos Bálint The GÉANT Community is extremely saddened to hear today of the passing of Dr. Lajos Bálint.
26 November | 2019Partnership for the future of Research and Higher Education in Central Asiaesearchers, academics and students across Central Asia and Europe who depend upon the services of the Central Asia Research and Education Network, gather today at the 4th CAREN Regional Conference
21 November | 2019New and Re-Elected Board Members for GÉANT During today’s GÉANT General Assembly (GA) meeting held at GÉANT’s Amsterdam office, attendees voted for three open GÉANT Board positions.
30 October | 2019Enlighten Your Research Latin America2EuropeEnlighten Your Research Latin America-Europe: Boosting International Research Cooperation with RedCLARA & GÉANT
10 October | 2019TNC20 – Call for Proposals NOW OpenWe are delighted to announce that the Call for Proposals for TNC20 is now officially open.
27 September | 2019Klaas Wierenga included in the Internet Hall of FameKlaas Wierenga has today been inducted to the prestigious Internet Hall of Fame at a special ceremony held in Costa Rica, recognised for his invention of eduroam, the global Wi-Fi roaming service for academic and research communities in over 100 countries.
22 July | 2019Fast and stable Network Ring between Asia-Pacific and EuropeExtensive backup links ensure network resilience and boost connectivity between Asia and Europe for research and education
28 June | 2019GÉANT and NextGEOSS – enabling access to Earth Observation data through eduTEAMSThe GÉANT Association and NextGEOSS have established a collaboration in order to maximize their objectives for connecting NextGEOSS services with eduGAIN via eduTEAMS
19 June | 2019TNC19 the biggest yet TNC19’s extensive programme came to a wonderful end on Wednesday 19 June, in another record year for TNC. The Closing Plenary featured talks from GÉANT CEO Erik Huizer; and founder and former CEO of the UbuntuNet Alliance Tusu Tusubira
19 June | 2019TNC19 Best Lightning Talk Award goes to… TNC19 introduced a brand new Best Lightning Talk Award, bringing further attention to this popular part of the programme. With a great line up of Lightning Talks from a truly diverse group of speakers spread over two days, the bar was set high!
18 June | 2019OpenAIRE and GÉANT expand collaboration to support Europe’s researchersThe OpenAIRE Advance and GÉANT GN4-3 projects have today signed an agreement to expand their existing collaboration and ensure that synergies across the projects are optimised, ensuring the seamless delivery of services to Europe’s researchers.
18 June | 2019GÉANT and Maeen join forces in support of Saudi-European research & education collaborationsGÉANT and the Saudi Research and Innovation Network (Maeen) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) today at TNC19 in Tallinn, expressing their commitment to join forces in support of research and education (R&E) collaborations between Europe and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
18 June | 2019Faster connectivity between Asia and Europe for research and educationNew secure 100 Gbps link is set to boost research and education collaboration between Asia Pacific region and Europe with shorter, faster, cheaper connectivity.
17 June | 2019GÉANT Community Award 2019: Transforming the CommunityOne winner and one category triumphed at the 2019 GÉANT Community Award. This year’s award panel had no hesitation in selecting the successful nominee in the category ‘impactful contributors to the GÉANT project or wider community activities over a sustained period of time’.
17 June | 2019The Vietsch Foundation’s Award: Medal of HonourTNC19 hosts the award of the prestigious Medal of Honour by the Vietsch Foundation. In the Opening Plenary for TNC19, the The Trustees of the Vietsch Foundation announced the unanimous decision to award Claudio Allocchio
17 June | 2019TNC19 opens with a focus on how technology can help society Keynote speakers Siim Sikkut and Linnar Viik today opened TNC19, and in so doing kicked off the GÉANT community’s annual conference held this year in Tallinn, Estonia
17 June | 2019New look CONNECT magazine launched at TNC19 The latest issue of CONNECT is now available, with an updated look and layout – that we hope you like and find easier to navigate through the clearly marked sections.
17 June | 2019Mapping the global R&E communityGÉANT’s global map has become something of an icon over the years! It has illustrated very well not only how R&E data moves from one country to another, but how networking has evolved as the global community has grown.
05 March | 2019100Gbps ring connection around the globe supercharges EU-Japanese science collaborationsScientific communities across Europe and Japan are set to benefit from an interconnection upgrade to 100Gbps between the pan-European GÉANT network and the Japanese Science Information Network (SINET), operated by the National Institute of Informatics (NII).
05 February | 2019OCRE enables easy cloud usage through the European Open Science CloudThe Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE), aims to accelerate cloud adoption in the European research community, by bringing together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organisations and the research and education community, through ready-to-use service agreements and €9.5 million in adoption funding
04 February | 2019Scientific communities in Europe and China to benefit from additional high-speed intercontinental linkCollaborative scientific research between Europe and China is set to be further boosted by an additional 10G of inter-regional connectivity which has just entered service.
08 January | 2019BELLA: EllaLink cable gets go-aheadGÉANT and RedCLARA, on behalf of the BELLA (Building the Europe Link to Latin America) Consortium, are delighted to announce that EllaLink and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have finalised agreements for the construction of the EllaLink submarine fibre optic cable
03 January | 2019UbuntuNet Alliance appoints Eng. Dr Francis Tusubira as Acting CEOEng. Dr. Tusubira succeeds Dr. Pascal Hoba who has left the Alliance following the end of his four-year contract on 31st December 2018 having led the organisation since 2015.
05 December | 2018TNC19 Early bird registration now openWe are delighted to announce that the early bird registration for TNC19 is now officially open. TNC19 will be held in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital, between 16 and 20 June 2019 and hosted by EEnet of HItsa, the Estonian National Research and Education Network.

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