Middle East
A new e-learning initiative for Africa
Education
Knowledge Exchange
ASREN (Arab States)
UbuntuNet (East & Southern Africa)
WACREN (West + Central Africa)
Africans of all ages will be able to benefit from access to distance learning following the establishment of the Pan African Virtual and E-University
Bringing ancient manuscripts to life
"Tikkoun Sofrim" (Hebrew for “Scribal Correction”) is a joint French-Israeli project to integrate the wisdom of the masses to digitalize ancient manuscripts using Handwritten Text-Recognition.
A universe of digital tools to help school-aged students prepare for University
Education
FCT | FCCN (Portugal)
GARR (Italy)
GÉANT (Europe)
IUCC (Israel)
KIFÜ (Hungary)
LITNET (Lithauania)
NORDUNet (European Nordic)
PIONIER/PSNC (Poland)
The Up2University project helps school-aged students prepare for university by making the technology and the methodology that students most likely will be facing at universities available to the secondary school level.
Has the world gone peppers?
Agriculture
Food Security
GÉANT (Europe)
IUCC (Israel)
NORDUNet (European Nordic)
SUNET (Sweden)
SURF (Netherlands)
Researchers from across Europe are hard at work developing a robot that autonomously roams a greenhouse, “eye-balling” sweet peppers to check if they have reached optimal ripeness, and then plucks them off the plant and places them in a vat – all automatically.
Delivering the data for groundbreaking cancer research
When the Sheba Cancer Research Center in Tel Aviv wanted to transfer 300 terabytes of data from the US National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Genomics in Chicago to local storage to advance their research, they thought the process would be relatively straightforward. It wasn't, and so they sought advice from Israel's NREN to find the solution.
Opening SESAME to the world
The hope was to build a tool that can probe the secrets of the material world. The dream is that such a tool will not just bring world-class science to the Middle East, but also unprecedented cooperation across a conflict-ridden region. In May 2017, that dream came true with SESAME's synchrotron.
Building a network without a network
When you build a national e-network connecting students and researchers, you usually start out by burying fibre, and buying and installing equipment. But what do you do, if none of that is possible? You focus on making a difference for your users, and that is exactly what the American University of Beirut has been doing.
Sharing knowledge to strengthen emerging networks
Knowledge Exchange
Technology
AUB (Lebanon)
BdREN (Bangladesh)
DrukREN (Bhutan)
EthERnet (Ethiopia)
KRENA (Kyrgyzstan)
MYREN (Malaysia)
NORDUNet (European Nordic)
Nren (Nepal)
PREGINET (Philippines)
WACREN (West + Central Africa)
ZAMREN (Zambia)
Helina Emeru is chief technology officer of Ethiopian research and education network EthERnet. In October 2016, she joined 9 colleagues from around the world at the NORDUnet conference as part of a new Knowledge Exchange Fellowship program.
Mapping the landscape, managing the future
Climate Science
Earth Observation
EUMEDCONNECT3 (Eastern Mediterranean)
GÉANT (Europe)
MARWAN (Morocco)
RENATER (France)
Moroccan and French researchers are using high-speed networks to combine their expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing to produce new thematic maps of
Agadir, Morocco and to monitor this fragile landscape.
Freeing epilepsy patients from seizure
Health & Medicine
Centre de Calcul El-Khawarizmi (CCK) - Tunisia
EUMEDCONNECT3 (Eastern Mediterranean)
GÉANT (Europe)
RENATER (France)
90% of the world’s 50 million epilepsy sufferers live in developing countries and a large minority need surgery as the only effective treatment. Thanks to the power of high-capacity R&E networks, the outlook for millions of epilepsy sufferers is being dramatically transformed and the costs of treatment substantially reduced.
Joining forces with the medical community to combat tropical diseases
Health & Medicine
C@ribNET (Caribbean)
CKLN (Caribbean)
GÉANT (Europe)
IUCC (Israel)
SingAREN (Singapore)
TEIN (Asia Pacific)
UbuntuNet (East & Southern Africa)
Collaborations for Dengue Fever and Chikungunya initiatives are excellent examples of the scalable nature of efforts to build communities. As such, the tools and capabilities are easily adaptable to the plethora of infectious diseases that pose a global challenge.