Welcome to this packed edition of our CONNECT magazine, the largest yet! As promised, we have also printed this TNC25 edition and plan to do so for every TNC edition in future. So, if you’re attending TNC25 in Brighton this week, we hope you collected your own printed copy from the GÉANT booth. If not, we have of course reproduced all the articles for online reading as well, which you can find further down this page and which you can filter by topic.
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Contents
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- Magazine Feature
- Community Highlight
- Security Highlight
- Network Highlight
- Project Highlight
- Services Highlight
- Partner Highlight
CONNECT Interview: Lise Fuhr, GÉANT CEO
In November 2024, Lise Fuhr took on the role of Chief Executive Officer at GÉANT. Now, six months into her new role, she reflects on her first impres...
Meet the GÉANT Executive team
Tryfon Chiotis, Chief Programmes Officer Tryfon took on the role of Chief Programmes Officer on an interim basis in July 2024 and was subsequently con...
Connect. Access. Transform.
From 6-9 June 2024, the citizens of European Member States voted for a new European Parliament. While there was pre-election concern about “Europe l...
Shaping a brighter future together at TNC25!
This week, GÉANT and the TNC25 host, Jisc, are delighted to welcome over 800 people from all corners of the world in the colourful city of Brighton, ...
Invisible architectures: the power and politics of internet infrastructure
Interview with Professor Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town I was privileged to interview Jess Auerbach Jah...
GÉANT Community Award 2025 acknowledges the outstanding contributions of Ronan Byrne and Nicole Harris
This year the GÉANT Community Award has been awarded to two winners: Ronan Byrne and Nicole Harris. Ronan Byrne, CEO of HEAnet “I’m honoured to r...
Shaping tomorrow: empowering the next generation with FTP25
The GÉANT Learning and Development Team (GLAD) are helping shape young talent again by providing students and young professionals with a valuable opp...
The Vietsch Foundation awards the 2025 Medal of Honour to Cathrin Stöver
The recipient of the 2025 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is Cathrin Stöver, Chief Communications Officer of GÉANT. The medal was presente...
Turning ideas into innovation with the 2024 GÉANT Innovation Programme
In 2024, the GÉANT Innovation Programme awarded funding of up to €50k to six projects. Within this edition, we saw a broader geographic spread of a...
Between investment and regulation – Europe’s bid to become an AI continent
Much has changed in the last 16 months. On 9 December 2023, the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the AI Act, the wor...
GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) Chair Charlie van Genuchten sparks change for gender equality and diversity within the community
Charlie van Genuchten was elected as the GCC Chair on 20 November 2024. Senior Product Manager for Security at the Dutch NREN SURF, Charlie will lead ...
Empowering NRENs with AI: SIG-AI’s role in knowledge sharing and community building
The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and NRENs often brings to mind AI-powered educational tools and services offered by NRENs to their us...
SIG-TFN leading the way in Time & Frequency network development
In 2024, a new Special Interest Group for the Time & Frequency Network (SIG-TFN), was established to provide a forum for the community working aro...
Emerging NREN Programme: empowerment and impact
We spoke with Elisantila Gaci, Head of the Services and Development Department at RASH—Albania’s National Research and Education Network – a...
A new chapter for the Compendium Report
The GÉANT Compendium of NRENs Report has been renewed and revitalised for 2024, with a new underlying concept dedicated to shining a spotlight on the...
Behind the scenes with GÉANT Digital Services: people, platforms and purpose
What role does the Digital Services (DS) department at GÉANT really play? The answer: more than you might think, even if most of it happens behind th...
Trust in cybersecurity: a balancing act
At this year’s Security Days, held on 8-10 April, participants were treated to a powerful keynote by Dr Karen Renaud from the University of Strathcl...
GÉANT and EXA Infrastructure announce IRU agreement for terabit expansion of transatlantic R&E connectivity between Europe and North America
GÉANT and digital infrastructure provider EXA Infrastructure are excited to announce the signature of an historical long-term agreement to deliver a ...
Inside Medusa’s submarine cable project: a bridge between Africa and Europe
In the summer of 2024, GÉANT and Medusa Submarine Cable System signed a contract that will deliver high-capacity connectivity to interconnect the mem...
RENAM supports the advancement of cervical cancer care through technology in Moldova’s National Colposcopy Network
Moldova is making significant strides in the fight against cervical cancer, with the help of innovative technology and strong leadership from Dr. Dian...
Bridging borders through music: Georgia’s first international LoLa presentation concert
In a landmark event for digital innovation and cultural collaboration in Georgia, the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire hosted Georgia’s...
Driving digital innovation: BELLA II’s experimental platforms
Imagine a digital laboratory that tests the boldest ideas before they transform the real world. Today, that laboratory exists in Latin America and the...
Building the future of sustainable Open Science through integrated Data Centre services
Arnes has begun the construction of the first-ever purpose-built Slovenian data centre in Maribor. The structure represents a fundamental milestone an...
The challenges and solutions to connecting Brazil
At Barão de Rio Branco State School in Amapá, in northern Brazil, headteacher Maria de Nazaré Barbosa faced a paradox: although the institution, fo...
Building a strategic security alliance for the future of NREN security
In a significant move to bolster the security of the UK’s tertiary education and research sectors, Jisc, who provides the UK NREN affectionately...
The story of Phishingator: how a Bachelor’s thesis became a tool for safer emails
Despite ever‑more sophisticated e‑mail filters and state‑of‑the‑art security appliances, phishing remains the most successful and common way...
Advancing credential interoperability across Europe
Enabling lifelong learning and cross-border student mobility requires digital credentials that are widely recognised and easily exchanged across syste...
Royal honor for Erik-Jan Bos
For life-long services to the Dutch and international network communities, Erik-Jan Bos, longtime employee of SURF and NORDUnet, receives one of the m...
In The Field turns 10: a decade of showcasing the global impact of NRENs
This year marks the 10th anniversary of In The Field, a storytelling project that has grown into a rich and widely valued resource for the global Nati...
PCSS embarks on the road towards next generation research infrastructures
Words: Bartosz Belter, PSNC Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe (PCSS) is leading the development of a new generation of research infrastr...
EGI: powering Open Science through federated digital infrastructure
As science grows more data-driven and interdisciplinary, researchers across Europe need reliable, scalable, and collaborative digital tools to transla...
OpenAIRE: supporting the future of scholarly communication, one e-infrastructure at a time
Established in 2018 as a legal entity, OpenAIRE is one of the primary Open Science (OS) e-infrastructure providers in Europe; a non-profit partnership...
(Digital) brick by brick: NRENs within EUDAT infrastructure building up the EOSC Federation
The road to Oz involved the famous yellow brick road. The road to an open and interoperable Europe involves the build-up of the European Open Science ...
Bridging ambition and research impact: how SoftwareOne and Google Cloud empower innovation
Words: Joe Morley, SoftwareOne and Hariprasad Radhakrishnan, Google Cloud The OCRE framework helps universities and research institutions across Eur...
Artificial intelligence and the cloud: an essential synergy to revolutionize healthcare
Words: Angela Cutrera, Sparkle One of the sectors most impacted by the adoption of IT technologies is healthcare, where we are witnessing an unprece...
Network digital twins and the future for smart education and research
Dr. Kireeti Kompella, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer WAN BU, Juniper Networks A digital twin, a virtual clone of a physical process or objec...
Are research universities ready for the data demands of a new generation of students, staff and scientists?
Words by: Nokia Universities face two key problems when it comes to networking: intensifying demand for IT and data center services and an IT staffing...
Education in the AI era
Words: Kate Maxwell, Microsoft Higher education is at a turning point. In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, institutions are being asked to deli...
Why your flow data might be lying to you (and how to fix it)
Words: Phillip Urbanik, Benocs In theory, flow data should give us a nice, accurate view of what’s happening in our network. In reality, there...
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