Infoshare on Campus Network as a Service
Interested in European NREN efforts to offer campus networking as a managed service? Join the infoshare organised by the GN4-3 project to learn more. In the infoshare on 7 October 2020, 13:00 -14:30 CEST, you will be learn about this new service, called CNaaS, for automating campus infrastructure management and offering management of basic infrastructure to institutions connected to […]
NORDUnet Partner in NSF-funded NEA3R Project
NORDUnet has joined global partners in a project to expand and support international research between Europe, America, Africa, and the Arctic region. The NEA3R project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the US and led by Indiana University, co-led by NORDUnet, GÉANT, and the UbuntuNet Alliance, will further expand network resources between America, Europe and […]
Registration Open for the EOSC Symposium 2020
This year’s EOSC Symposium will be online, and takes place 19-22 October 2020. The EOSC Symposium is your chance to get updated on the evolution and direction of the European Open Science Cloud, two years into the program, and to discuss next steps with peers from all of Europe. The Symposium will feature updates on the […]
Save the Date
This year’s NORDUnet conference in Iceland was supposed to have been the launch pad for celebrating 40 years of Nordic collaboration and NORDUnet. As the conference has been postponed, we are now happy to announce a virtual event celebrating this anniversary Friday 27 November 2020 from 10:00am – 11:30am CET. Registration and agenda for this […]
EOSC-Nordic publish report on Barriers to Cross-border Data Sharing
The vision of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is that European researchers can share and reuse research data across Europe, boosting reseach productivity and impact. As part of its contribution to the understanding and eventual realisation of this vision, the EOSC-Nordic project has studied legal barries to data sharing. In a report co-authored by NORDUnet, the […]
Direct South Africa – South America connectivity
TENET (the NREN of South Africa) and RedCLARA (the regional network of South America, interconnecting the NRENs of the countries in South Amercia) have recently enabled direct R&E connectivity across the South Atlantic. The link utilises NREN connectivity secured on the SACS (South Atlantic Cable System) and WACS (West African Cable System) submarine cables. The link […]
Smooth connectivity for Nordic academics
Smooth connectivity for Nordic academics As video-conferencing has become highly popular, the value of fast and reliable connections is obvious. A smooth and easy way to secure this is to download the eduVPN app for when you’re not connected via the NREN network. Since eduVPN started as a project in 20115 at the Dutch research […]
Interview with NORDUnet CEO René Buch
The GÉANT Association CONNECT magazine has interviewed NORDUnet CEO René Buch. HIghlights of the interview includes discussion of NORDUnet’s role as a regional Research and Education Network and its role in supporting the highly collaborative Nordic NREN community, the role of NORDUnet in the global research & education community, and the strategy and plans for the next five years. The […]
Nordics receive honour and community awards
Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour NORDUnet Media Services Manager Erik Kikkenborg has been awarded the prestigious Vietsch Foundation Medal of Honour 2020 together with Bartek Idzikowski of PSNC. They have received the medal for their huge commitment to the R&E community through their dedicated efforts to safeguard broadcast and recording of talks from the TNC […]
NORDUnet Zoom Service and GDPR compliance
NORDUnet Zoom Service and GDPR compliance In line with the past weeks’ huge increase in demand for and use of video conferencing and teaching via Zoom we have seen a parallel increase in the number of questions regarding privacy issues connected with the Zoom service, such as storage of personal data, access to personal data, […]
