Project description
Diminishing the digital divide through GÉANT partnership
GÉANT is Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe's economic growth and competitiveness. The organisation develops, delivers and promotes advanced network and associated e-infrastructure services, and supports innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst its members, partners and the wider research and education networking community. It currently reaches over 50 million users at 10 000 institutions across Europe, and more than 100 countries worldwide. The EU-funded GN4-3 is the third specific grant agreement under a framework partnership agreement (FPA) between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission. It aims to help take European research to the next level, promoting scientific excellence, access and re-use of research data.
Objective
The GN4-3 is the proposed project for the third Specific Grant Agreement under the 68-month Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) established between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission in April 2015. This third phase of implementing the FPA is proposed to last 48 months and is a natural continuation of the work in GN4-2, building on the results and maintaining the overall objective of helping to raise European research to the next level, promoting scientific excellence, access and re-use of research data.
GÉANT’s world-class, high-speed backbone provides seamless and secure connectivity with 42 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), reaching over 50 million users in 10,000 institutions across Europe, and more than 100 countries worldwide through links with other regions. The core backbone is capable of multiple 100 Gbps transmission over each fibre link, and Terabit connectivity can be achieved by a single node. The safe and rapid connection of users to each other, to the increasing amounts of data generated by research, and to the high-performance computing capacity required by collaborative research form the foundation of the GÉANT partnership.
GÉANT services offer convenient, fast and reliable access to European High Performance Computing facilities, cloud services for the research and education community, access to scientific data and publications and other services from the European e-infrastructure providers, whenever and wherever needed.
The structure of the present proposal emphasises updating existing services in line with requirements of the user community. This complements the proposed companion project GN4-3N, an ambitious programme increasing the footprint of the backbone network at the same time as improving its capacity, resilience and flexibility with the aim of offering 100Gbps network access to many more GÉANT partners and significantly diminish the digital divide.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksdata networks
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputers
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.1.4. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Research Infrastructures Main Programme
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1102 BR Amsterdam
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Participants (39)
1010 Wien
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11000 Beograd
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1000 Ljubljana
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0014 Yerevan
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220012 Minsk
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Sofia
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10000 Zagreb
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160 00 Praha 6
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1678 Nicosia
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10178 Berlin
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1249 074 Lisboa
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00185 Roma
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0108 Tbilisi
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11523 Athina
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D01 Dublin
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12618 Tallinn
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69978 Tel Aviv
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OX11 0SG Didcot
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LT-44029 Kaunas
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1000 Skopje
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81000 Podgorica
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1134 Budapest
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2770 Kastrup
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61 704 Poznan
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28020 Madrid
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2004 CHISINAU
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75013 Paris
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4365 Esch-Sur-Alzette
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010362 Bucuresti
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811 07 Bratislava
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3511 EP Utrecht
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3008 Bern
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06100 Ankara
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2080 MSIDA
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03056 Kyiv
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1459 Riga
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1001 Tirana
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1141 Baku
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