GÉANT (Europe)
Visit WebsiteOpenUP2U: accessible education in times of crisis
In an effort to support continued learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU-funded Up2University (Up2U) project rapidly accelerated development of a version of its trusted, remote learning platform, and offered it to all schools and universities across Europe.
Opening the door to Europe’s digital language library
The CLARIN research infrastructure (or simply “CLARIN”) was set up in 2012. Its objective is to make digital language resources from Europe accessible to humanities and social science researchers through a single sign-on.
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.
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.
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.
Volcano surveillance in near-real time
Recent research on the Italian volcano Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, may have developed a new tool for predicting eruptions.
Supporting the global challenges of the novel coronavirus
Health & Medicine
Technology
AARNet (Australia)
CANARIE (Canada)
GÉANT (Europe)
Internet2 (USA)
Jisc (United Kingdom)
NORDUNet (European Nordic)
RedCLARA (Latin America)
RNP (Brazil)
TEIN (Asia Pacific)
The global network of interconnected National Research and Education Networks is boosting international capacity where needed as part of the global rapid response to the recent novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.
Maximizing the value of genomic data through secure transnational sharing
The European “1+ Million Genomes” initiative aims at linking genomic databases across borders. But there is a challenge: You must do it do it without compromising data security.
Citizen science: collaboration for water quality
Climate Science
Earth Observation
Environment
Water management
Europe
GÉANT (Europe)
SURF (Netherlands)
Harnessing the power of citizen science gives scientists the opportunity to gather more data than they ever could alone.
Giving researchers access to real world 5G cellular mobile infrastructure
With an increasing number of researchers working with 5G, there is a growing demand for test facilities outside of a restricted laboratory setting. The EUWireless project is now offering users a complete “telecommunication infrastructure” at his or her disposal.