For the past two years, #EDSSI L2 has been progressing the digitalisation of #ErasmusPlus and the European #StudentCard Initiative, aiming at providing a seamless #StudentMobility experience for the entire European #HigherEducation Area.

Read how EDSSI L2 solutions are making #Erasmus+ administrative processes faster, more accessible, and more secure than ever in this article by Debora Lucque (European University Foundation)👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/04/05/the-next-level-of-the-european-digital-student-services-infrastructure

📰And in #CONNECT42 👉 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

The first experiment on the #EllaLink #GeoLab has already started!

The Portuguese NREN FCCN interviewed INESC TEC's researcher Orlando Frazão on how this infrastructure integrated in the EllaLink #SubmarineCable can help to study oceanographic conditions, detect earthquakes, understand the movement of tides and boats, and more 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/04/05/geolab-the-first-experiment-has-already-started

Read this article on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of our CONNECT Magazine 📰 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

#Oceanography #Seismology #MarineEcology

Advanced #computing, #AI, #edge, #XR, #networking, #quantum... What are the most important #tech trends for #Research & #Education?

@SURF published a comprehensive report, helping us to understand current tech developments and providing inspiration 👉 https://www.surf.nl/en/tech-trends

The report is also featured in #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine. 📰 Read and download the full magazine here https://connect.geant.org/connect42

2023 is a busy and ambitious final year for GN4-3N, the project delivering the next-generation #GÉANTnetwork!

Current status:
✅ >20,000km of dark #fibre or #spectrum lit
✅ 26 countries connected
✅ 42 routes fully deployed
🔜 Much more to come!

Read more here 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/gn4-3n-project-forecasts-busy-2023-for-next-generation-network

And in #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the CONNECT Magazine 📰 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

#Research #Education #Networking #Science #DigitalDivide #NRENs #connectivity #engineering #procurement #connectivitymatters

Completed in 2022 and with a total investment of €17 million, Unidade FCCN's ambitious project #RCTS100 upgraded and expanded the 🇵🇹 Portuguese #Research & #Education #Network RCTS, strengthening research, technological #development and #innovation in the country.

Learn more 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/rcts100-knowledge-at-high-speed

📰 This article is featured in #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine 👉 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

#Networking #Science #Portugal #DigitalDivide #HEIs #HigherEducation

🏆 The CESNET team in the picture was awarded by
IDEA StatiCa for their solution for video and audio transmission via a computer #network across large distances with exceptionally low time #latency, already awarded by Europa Nostra in 2020.

Read the article 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/cesnet-making-waves-for-audio-and-video-transmission-with-minimal-latency

This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here 👉 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

🚀 Space #technology and remote sensing applications in the Arab region contribute to the UN #SDGs by helping monitor #marine resources, air #pollution, movement of sand dunes, oil spills and rising sea levels.

🙌 The EgSA-Egyptian Space Agency calls for more regional collaboration: https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/space-technology-in-the-arab-world-the-need-for-cross-country-collaboration-to-achieve-sdgs

👉 This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here:
https://connect.geant.org/connect42

#AfricaConnect3

☁️ Public #Clouds: Do We (Really) Know What We are Buying?

Claudia Battista - Director of the Italian NREN GARR - produced for #CONNECT42 a useful handbook to help #research network users make an informed choice of public #Cloud services 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/22/public-clouds-do-we-really-know-what-we-are-buying

Read this and more articles from GÉANT and from our NREN partners in the latest issue of our #CONNECTmagazine 📰 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

Professor Bilge Demirköz (Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey) is a leading physicist who worked for 15 years at CERN on the AMS and @ATLASexperiment

We interviewed her for #CONNECT42 and in occasion of our #WomenInSTEM campaign 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/22/connect-interview-bilge-demirkoz-professor-of-astro-particle-physics-at-metu-turkey

In the words of our CCO Cathrin Stöver, this interview "is a testimonial on how hard-working, creative, and ambitious women have to be in order to succeed in the field."

📰 #CONNECT42 👉
https://connect.geant.org/connect42

The #OCREproject, which came to a close in Dec '22, made commercial #cloud services available to accelerate Research & Education throughout 10,000 institutions across Europe

We talked about its impact in our CONNECT Magazine 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/22/the-impact-of-ocre

📰In #CONNECT42 we also highlighted 3 projects that have benefited from using the OCRE framework to accelerate their #research 👉 https://connect.geant.org/connect42

☁️More OCRE success stories here👉 https://www.ocre-project.eu/success-story

#CloudServices #EO #EarthObservation