Thank you, Erik Huizer!

For the past seven years, Erik Huizer has served as CEO of the GÉANT Association, steering the organization through a transformative period. He joined GÉANT at a time when the European collaboration of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) faced significant challenges. With a focus on trust-building and fostering a shared sense of purpose, Erik […]

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 […]

Sweden’s NREN offers a week of online inspiration

Sunet, the NREN of Sweden, invites its community for an all-online autumn 2024 version of its traditional gathering, “Sunetdagarna”. Participants can pick and choose from an extensive program covering the full week of November 4-8. The event kicks off with a keynote presentation on quantum technology, and its implications for computing, encryption, and Machine Learning. […]

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 […]

Joint Statement on Strengthening European Digital Gateways with Polar Connect

Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and NORDUnet today released a joint statement, stressing the importance of of the European Digital Gateways and their commitment to support the Polar Connect initiative aiming at safeguarding European digital sovereignty. The partners have signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to collaborate to achieve secure and resilient connectivity across […]

LHC networkers meet in Beijing

This week, experts in high-performance networking, research computing, storage infrastructure, and high-energy physics experiments met in Beijing, China, for the biannual LHCOPN-LHCONE meeting. The 53rd LHCOPN-LHCONE meeting was hosted by the the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. IHEP was recently designated a Tier-1 data center for the Worldwide […]

Presentation of EOSC EU NODE for the stakeholders

Today, was the first official launch of EOSC EU NODE, a reference node for EOSC provided by the European Commission The presentation was held for European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) and EOSC Association. The launch event was organised in a hybrid […]

EUMEDplus: Strengthening the NRENs of EU’s Southern Neighbourhood

This autumn NORDUnet will take part in launching “EUMEDplus”, a new project aimed at supporting NREN infrastructure and services in what is known as EU’s Southern Neighbourhood, viz. Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia. The project has three main objectives: Supporting Research and Education by strengthening the NRENs in the countries and […]

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 […]