EU Grants Funding for Polar Connect Step 1
The next subproject of Polar Connect begins, bringing together five Nordic stakeholders to secure the future of global digital infrastructure. Polar Connect is an initiative to establish a sustainable and reliable fibre connection between Europe and Asia, along a new route via the Arctic Ocean. The European Commission is granting 4 million Euro in funding […]
New Baltic Sea route bolsters resilience
NORDUnet introduces a direct submarine fiber connection from Sweden to Berlin via Bornholm. For the first time, NORDUnet has opened a route from Sweden via the island of Bornholm directly to the German capital Berlin. This supplies much needed additional resilience to the Northern European research and education network system. “Historically, new connections involving Denmark […]
Welcome, Lise Fuhr
Lise Fuhr is the new CEO of GÉANT Association At the recent General Assembly of the GÉANT Association, the pan-European research and education network, Erik Huizer officially handed over leadership to Lise Fuhr, the new Chief Executive Officer of GÉANT. “As a long-standing and highly active member in the European NREN collaboration, NORDUnet welcomes Lise […]
Licia Florio Elected to the EOSC Association Board of Directors
Licia Florio, Senior Strategy and Policy Officer at NORDUnet, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association, for a one-year term. Licia has played a pivotal role in driving NORDUnet and the Nordic National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in their contributions to the development and deployment […]
Elections at GÉANT Association
Today, the GÉANT Association general assembly elected a new chair of the GÉANT Community Committee and re-elected two members of the Association’s Board of Directors. Charlie van Genuchten, Senior Product Manager Security at Dutch NREN SURF was elected chair of the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) to lead the GÉANT community programme for the next three […]
DeiC 2024 Conference
On this beautiful autumn day, the Danish NREN DeiC conference opens in Kolding, Denmark, welcoming participants under the theme, “Collaborating to Build the Research Infrastructure for the Future.” Running from 29-30 October, the conference gathers Danish and international stakeholders for two days of insightful presentations, engaging debates, and valuable networking opportunities. The conference will feature […]
Milestone for European open science
NORDUnet celebrates the launch of the EOSC EU Node The EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) EU Node was officially launched today during the EOSC Symposium 2024 in Berlin, Germany, following the technical presentation in Brussels on October 10th. This is a major milestone for the advancement towards the implementation of a global interoperable platform to […]
Polar Connect: Reaching out to East Asia
NORDUnet invited to present an update on the preparations for an Arctic connection at leading international conference on submarine cable connectivity held in Singapore. Looking at our planet from space, a route through the Arctic region is clearly the shortest one between Northern Europe and East Asia. This fact is part of the basis for […]
Goodbye from Bergen!
It’s time to say goodbye from Bergen, Norway. The NORDUnet 2024 conference week came and went so fast. Thanks to the many, many people – speakers, sponsors, engineers, planners, logistics people, and more who helped make this a successful event, and to the even more people who joined us in Bergen or online. Closing Keynote […]
Silent revolution in conference networks
At the recent TNC24 conference in Rennes (hosted by RENATER, ed.), a dedicated team from NORDUnet used Artificial Intelligence to improve the quality of Wi-Fi and the network in general. Setting up a network for a conference is like being a referee at a sports event. If nobody talks about your performance, you have done […]
