☺️ Wir freuen uns! Wir schicken gleich drei Nachwuchstalente ins #Finale des Future Talent Programme #FTP zur #TNC26 nach Helsinki.

Anna Maria Yang-Jacobi, Felix Jahn & Jan-Frederik Rieckers haben sich im Auswahlverfahren durchgesetzt – und präsentieren ihre Projekte auf großer Bühne.

Die TNC gilt als weltweit wichtigste Konferenz für Forschungs- und Bildungsnetzwerke #NRENs & wird von @geant organisiert.

👉 Mehr Infos + Portraits der drei Finalist:innen gibt es unter: https://www.dfn.de/future-talent-programme-tnc26/

📢 We are happy to announce the hashtag#release of hashtag#FileSender 3.8. 🤩
This release makes the main code path that is used to write data to disk in the server code more efficient in terms of CPU and memory use. 🎯
We are grateful to the global NREN hashtag#community for supporting the FileSender project to evolve. 🤝
Details on 👉 https://filesender.org/new-filesender-3-8-release/

@geant #networking #NRENs @nordunet @renater @DKFZ @SURF

Upgrade your #FileSender service to version 3.x to elevate the overall user experience! 👍

33 representatives of 24 organizations (including 20 #NRENs) from 22 countries participated 🤩 in the FileSender Online #Infoshare on February 26, 2026. 🎯

Details on 👉 https://filesender.org/filesender-online-infoshare-upgrade-your-service-to-version-3-x-to-elevate-the-overall-user-experience/

@geant #networking @nordunet @renater @DKFZ @SURF

📢 We are happy to announce the #release of #FileSender 3.7. 🤩 This release includes some updates for data validation. File names are now normalized to NFD. 🎯
We are grateful to the global NREN #community for supporting the FileSender project to evolve. 🤝
Details on 👉️ https://filesender.org/new-filesender-3-7-release/

@geant #networking #NRENs @SURF @nordunet @renater @DKFZ

Every year, a new group of students & recent graduates joins the GÉANT Trust & Identity community. Not as observers, but as contributors working on real challenges alongside experts from GÉANT & European #NRENs.

That's what the Trust & Identity Incubator Mentorship (TIM) programme is about.

Cycle 12 is now open, and we're looking for the next group of curious, motivated students ready to take that step.

Learn more and apply before 1 May 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2026/03/19/be-part-of-the-next-trust-identity-incubator-mentorship-cycle

📢 We are happy to announce the #release of #FileSender 3.6. 🤩 This release includes a fix for downloading larger encrypted files with Firefox and StreamSaver. 🎯
We are grateful to the global NREN #community for supporting the FileSender project to evolve. 🤝
Details on 👉 https://filesender.org/new-filesender-3-6-release/

@geant #networking #NRENs @SURF @nordunet @renater @DKFZ

GÉANT Compendium 2025 data is now available 📊

Every year, the GÉANT Compendium captures how Europe’s #NRENs operate, evolve and support their communities, from networks & services to organisation, funding and people.

What’s new in the 2025 data:

🔹 Expanded organisational insights, including funding models and expenditure
🔹 New benchmarking questions on NREN staff, including gender and age groups
🔹 Dedicated sub-sections on EOSC involvement and #AI

🔗 Explore the data: https://compendium.geant.org/data

🛡️ 25 years of security in #Research & #Education

For over two decades, GÉANT & the European NREN community have helped shape the R&E #security landscape, combining technical expertise with deep community collaboration.

In this #CONNECT50 article, @RosannaCrama & @alfmoens look back at this evolution, from early community roots to today’s more strategic security landscape.

🔗 Read the full story: https://connect.geant.org/2025/10/13/25-years-of-security-in-research-education

#cyberSecurity #securityAwareness #NRENs #eduVPN #incidentresponse

📢 We are happy to announce the #release of #FileSender 3.3. 🤩 This release includes a small bugfix for the natural sorting for PostgreSQL-backed installations. ✅
We are grateful to the global NREN #community for supporting the FileSender project to evolve. 🤝
Details on 👉 https://filesender.org/new-filesender-3-3-release/

@geant #networking #NRENs @SURF @nordunet @renater @DKFZ

📢 We are happy to announce the #release of #FileSender 3.2. 🤩
This release brings in: 🎯
✅ more #robust Error handling and fallback to other Download options if FileSystemwritableFilestream does not work (this will be the case in some locked down research environments) from 2.62,
✅ additional data #validation to cases such as transfer creation and guest creation from 2.63.
Details on 👉 https://filesender.org/new-filesender-3-2-release/

@geant #networking #NRENs @SURF @nordunet @renater @DKFZ