We are proud to announce the signature at #GGF23 of a €40m investment grant on the #MEDUSA Submarine Cable Project between @EU_Commission @eib @geant and AFR-IX telecom.
As the first digital Global Gateway project, MEDUSA will connect the North and South shores of the #Mediterranean with a long term and high-capacity fiber optic submarine cable system and accelerate international collaborative #research.
🔗 https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2023-393-eu-eib-support-helps-accelerate-medusa-high-speed-digital-connection-under-mediterranean-sea
Today at the Global Gateway Forum, the European Investment Bank signed the €40 million investment grant provided by the European Commission with GÉANT, coordinator of the European National Research and Education Network and AFR-IX, who will be executing the infrastructure project to bolster digital connectivity between North Africa and the European Union through the €342 “MEDUSA” Submarine Cable Project.
#CONNECT44 - the newest issue of GÉANT’s CONNECT Magazine is now out, and it's a jam-packed issue with contributions from the community!
Highlights:
🌐 #OpenScience
⚛️ #Quantum Communications
⚡️ #HPC & applications in #Research & #Education
And many more topics!
Read it here 👉 https://connect.geant.org/connect44
#NRENs #EOSC #RDM #Research #QKD #EuroHPC #eduGAIN #eduTEAMS #Education #Network #eduMEET #cybersecurity #BecomeACyberHero #TNC24 #GÉANTnetwork
#CONNECT44 - the latest GÉANT CONNECT Magazine is now out, and it's a jam-packed issue with contributions from the community!
Highlights:
🌐 #OpenScience
⚛️ #Quantum Communications
⚡️ #HPC & applications in R&E
And many more topics!
Read it here 👉 https://connect.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GEANT_CONNECT_44_How-do-GEANT-and-the-NRENs-support-Open-Science.pdf
If you attended the EOSC symposium in September in Madrid, you will know that almost all plenary conversations, at one moment or other, commented about the top-down vs bottom-up conundrum. What is meant here is that the EOSC Partnership is seen to a large extent by the community as a top-down arrangement, while the EOSC
As the GÉANT GN4-3N Project team celebrates the major milestone of reaching 20,000km of dark fibre or spectrum being lit, the focus remains on a busy and ambitious final year for the project that will deliver vastly increased network capacity at a lower cost than the network it’s replacing. Built around dark fibre services using
Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN)
UG Center for InformationTech
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