News & Events

Sunet Days spring 2018 are approaching rapidly. University of Gävle will host this edition of the inspirational event during which  Swedish r&e network Sunet invites its customers and users to meet from 16-19 April. Delegates are presented with four days of presentations, meetings, and discussions.  Four parallel tracks offering subjects such as Identity, security, campus issues, and of course the very relevant GDPR issue, combined with plenary sessions for everyone. NORDUnet will livestream Tuesday's plenary session.

The Shibboleth Consortium has pubslihed a bref report of activities and results for 2017. 

NORDUnet is a Principal Member of the Shibboleth Consortium on behalf of the identity deferations of the Nordic NRENs, and is represented in the consortium board by Manne Miettinen of HAKA / CSC. 

The RENU Identity Federation (RIF) - the R&E trust & identity federation for Uganda, created and operated by the RENU, the Udanda NREN, has joined eduGAIN.  EduGAIN is the global inter-federation of trust and identity federation for the reserarch and education, allowing single-sign-on, trusted access to global research data and instruments, and simple, userfriendly access management for researchers and students across the worlds.

RIF is the 55th national federation to join eduGAIN, and the first in sub-Saharan Africa.

On November 24, the 12th General Assembly of the GÉANT Association elected new members.  The Terms of three members (Dorte Olesen, Raimundas Tuminauskas, and Marko Bonač) had expired.  In addition, Erik Huized had stepped down from the board to take on the role as interim CEO of the GÉANT Association.

The general assembly elected