Europe
Supporting remote teaching of performing arts
How do artists play music together in times of a crisis like COVID-19? How do they teach, run courses, collaborate, rehearse, and perform during lockdowns all over the world? Enter: the Network Performing Arts Production Workshops.
Smooth connectivity for Nordic academics
Knowledge Exchange
Technology
CSC (Finland)
DeIC (Denmark)
NORDUNet (European Nordic)
RHnet (Iceland)
UNINETT (Norway)
The new eduVPN app allows academics and staff at Nordic universities to enjoy their fast university network connection when working at home.
Conserving cultural heritage in Armenia
Digital Humanities
ASNET-AM-IIAP NAS RA (Armenia)
EaPConnect (Europe's Eastern Partnership countries)
Books, newspapers, articles and other items spanning around 300 years of Armenian cultural history have been captured and preserved as digital objects.
Powering up future communicators
Education
Knowledge Exchange
ASREN (Arab States)
GARNET (Ghana)
GÉANT (Europe)
UbuntuNet (East & Southern Africa)
WACREN (West + Central Africa)
Students of communication and journalism at higher learning institutions across 13 African countries can look forward to extensive virtual collaboration through a new digital platform, the All Varsity News Network.
GÉANT and the SKA – an astronomical collaboration
The Square Kilometre Array, known as the SKA, will become the world’s biggest radio telescope, surveying the sky ten thousand times faster than ever before.
What does Mars sound like? Turning the red planet’s data into music
Ever wondered what the planets sound like? The Mars Soundscapes project uses sonification to transform data from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, and images from rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity.
Supporting medical examinations in Moldova
RENAM has provided 2 DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) portals and 6 DICOM servers to handle the generation, storage and usage of medical images, which has grown during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nordic boom in distance learning
Education
Knowledge Exchange
Technology
CSC (Finland)
DeIC (Denmark)
NORDUNet (European Nordic)
RHnet (Iceland)
SUNET (Sweden)
UNINETT (Norway)
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of distance learning users in the Nordic countries has risen dramatically.
Boosting the vitality of the Belarusian language
Arts & Culture
Digital Humanities
BASNET (Belarus)
EaPConnect (Europe's Eastern Partnership countries)
Europe
The survival and development of the Belarusian language has been boosted by the work of the Speech Synthesis and Recognition Laboratory at the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Supporting distance learning with eduMEET in Ukraine
Within the first week eduMEET became a popular tool and is now attracting up to 120 users per day.
Predicting climate change impacts in Georgia
Climate Science
Disaster Warning
EaPConnect (Europe's Eastern Partnership countries)
Europe
GRENA (Georgia)
Natural disasters have intensified in recent years, causing substantial damage to infrastructure, farmland and people’s lives, with research more critical than ever to improving disaster preparedness.
Open source for distance learning thanks to the iorestoacasa.work initiative
GARR makes free web conference resources available that will particularly help schools with providing distance learning during the COVID-19 emergency.