It’s time for lightning talks for the NORDUnet Community Workshop
NORDUnet would like to invite proposals for lightning talks for the NORDUnet Community Workshop (NCW23). The community workshop will take place in Copenhagen, 12-14 September 2023. We have two lightning talk sessions in the community workshop program this year – Tuesday 12 September in the morning and Thursday 14 September in the afternoon. Both are […]
Cinia and NORDUnet collaboration on Arctic Connectivity
Inter-continental connectivity between Europe and Asia is set to be significantly strengthened through two complementing submarine cable systems – Far North Fiber and Polar Connect. The two submarine cable systems currently in development will greatly increase diversity and resilience for connectivity between Europe and Asia, while also increasing capacity and reducing latency. For today’s digital […]
Thank you, Tirana!
TNC23 is done, the near 800 participants are back home, but the memories live on. As always, TNC was a great experience for the NORDUnet and Nordic NREN team. We would like to thanks everyone who came to visit us at the Nordic booth, saw presentations by Nordic speakers, and joined discussions. It was good […]
Strong momentum for Polar connectivity
NORDUnet CEO Valter Nordh has been invited to present the two Arctic sub-sea Europe-Asia cable projects under preparation to key audiences in Europe and USA. Under the headline Polar Connect, NORDUnet and the Nordic NRENs aim to exploit recent progress in cable laying technology which has opened the field for connections through the Arctic Ocean. […]
Springtime for Sunet
The brand “Sunetdagarna” was well-known pre-COVID in the Nordic research and education community as a buffet of seminars organized by Swedish NREN Sunet each spring. Following a few years online, the event is back in its original physical format. In line with tradition the main target group is employees of the institutions connected to Sunet […]
High-speed connectivity for Iceland’s R&E
A new subsea circuit to Ireland and upgrade of existing connections safeguard digital sovereignty of Icelandic research and education collaborations. Significantly more detailed weather forecasts for Iceland will be one of the first everyday products of a new fiber connection established by Iceland’s national research and education network RHnet, NORDUnet, and partners. Through the lease […]
Jan Meijer elected for the GÉANT Programme Planning Committee
At the March 2023 General Assembly of the GÉANT Association, the European research and education network collaboration, elected new members to the GÉANT Programme Planning Committee (GPPC). The committee guides the preparation of project proposals on behalf of the association and its members. The GPPC takes responsibility for the major evolution and service delivery projects under the […]
NORDUnet receives “Facilitator for Emerging NRENs 2021” award at APAN55
On 15 March 2023, in Kathmandu, Nepal, the session “NRENs’ activities during the pandemic and attained resilience” at the APAN55 meeting saw Mohammad Tawrit, CEO of Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN), on behalf of the Steering Committee of the Asi@Connect Project, present Valter Nordh, CEO of NORDUnet, with the Facilitator for Emerging NRENs 2021 […]
Expansion of Asian-European collaboration (AER)
14 March 2023, Katmandu, Nepal. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) joins NORDUnet and nine other partners in the Asia-Pacific-Europe Ring.The inclusion of KISTI in the network collaboration was confirmed today in a signing ceremony during the opening plenary of the APAN 55 conference. The Asia-Pacific-Europe Ring (AER) is a collaboration between […]
Erik Kikkenborg joins WACREN panel on Scalable platforms for Digital Education
Digital education has seen a steady increase over the past couple of years and the technologies that facilitate it intensified during the pandemic, resulting in an unprecedented boom in usage. NORDUnet Chief Collaboration Officer Erik Kikkenborg has been a driver in meeting the growing demands in the Nordics, however, has also joined collaborations to help […]
