Horizon 2020: H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018 Topic [b] Increase of Long-Term Backbone Capacity

Objective

"The GN4 Phase 3 Network (GN4-3N) proposal for part b of the third Specific Grant Agreement (SGA3(b) is made in response to the H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018 (Topic [b] Research and Education Networking) call, received 17 October 2018, under the 68-month Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) established between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission in April 2015. It is proposed to last 48 months to implement, as the call requests, a very ambitious restructuring of the backbone network operated by GÉANT in order to provide equal access to clouds and other e-infrastructure services in the European research area and beyond. It will improve the overall resilience and reliability of the GÉANT network significantly and offer a base for future improvements in access, transmission speeds and capacity wherever needed.
The outcome of GN4-3N project will offer uniform network access and choice of services to many more partners, eliminating the ""digital divide"" wherever technically and economically feasible.
This project proposal is based on technical and economic studies carried out during 2017-2018 in the GN4-2 project which have given the Consortium clarity on the resourcing, financial and effort, needed to realise the huge ambition of this undertaking. It exclusively covers the engineering, procurement, acquisition and installation of the new backbone network. The day-to-day network operations as the elements of it is commissioned is the responsibility of the teams described in accompanying the GN4-3 project.
The GN4-3 and GN4-3N proposals are intimately connected through common teams and the technical, management and procurement expertise built-up over previous GN projects. This is what makes this ambitious proposal realistic. GN4-3N and GN4-3 have simply had to be proposed as distinct projects, due to the different funding model (with no depreciation) to be used in GN4-3N project."

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.4. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Research Infrastructures

Topic(s)

• GEANT-2018-b - GÉANT Partnership projects (b)

Call for proposal

H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018
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Funding Scheme

SGA-RIA - SGA-RIA

Coordinator

GEANT VERENIGING

Address

Hoekenrode 3
1102 BR Amsterdam
Netherlands

Activity type

Research Organisations

EU contribution

€ 50 401 782

Participants (38)

UNIVERSITAT WIEN

Austria

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Universitatsring 1
1010 Wien

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

UNIVERZITET U BEOGRADU

Serbia

EU contribution

€ 3 900

Address

Studentski Trg 1
11000 Beograd

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

AKADEMSKA IN RAZISKOVALNA MREZA SLOVENIJE

Slovenia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Tehnoloski Park 18
1000 Ljubljana

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION PROBLEMS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

Armenia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Paruyr Sevak Street 1
0014 Yerevan

Activity type

Research Organisations

UNITED INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF BELARUS

Belarus

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Surganova Street 6
220012 Minsk

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

BELNET

Belgium

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Avenue Louise 231
1050 Brussels

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

BULGARIAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORK

Bulgaria

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Gourko Str 6
1000 Sofia

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

HRVATSKA AKADEMSKA I ISTRAZIVACKA MREZA CARNET

Croatia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Josipa Marohnica 5
10000 Zagreb

Activity type

Research Organisations

CESNET ZAJMOVE SDRUZENI PRAVNICKYCH OSOB

Czechia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Zikova 4
160 00 Praha 6

Activity type

Research Organisations

ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΟ ΕΡΕΥΝΗΤΙΚΟ ΚΑΙ ΑΚΑΔΗΜΑΪΚΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ (KYPRIAKO EREVNITIKO KAI AKADIMAIKO DIKTYO)

Cyprus

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Kallipoleos 75
1678 Nicosia

Activity type

Research Organisations

VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG EINES DEUTSCHEN FORSCHUNGSNETZES DFN VEREIN E.V.

Germany

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Alexanderplatz 1
10178 Berlin

Activity type

Other

FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA

Portugal

EU contribution

€ 4 725

Address

Avenida D Carlos I 126
1249 074 Lisboa

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

CONSORTIUM GARR

Italy

EU contribution

€ 9 400

Address

Via Dei Tizii 6
00185 Roma

Activity type

Other

GEORGIAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKING ASSOCIATION

Georgia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

10 Chovelidze Street
0108 Tbilisi

Activity type

Other

NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

Greece

EU contribution

€ 8 400

Address

Leoforos Kifisias 7
11523 Athina

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

HEANET LTD

Ireland

EU contribution

€ 13 600

Address

Georges Dock 5 1St Floor Ifsc
D01 Dublin

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

HARIDUSE INFOTEHNOLOOGIA SIHTASUTUS

Estonia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Akadeemia Tee 21/1
12618 Tallinn

Activity type

Other

MACHBA - INTERUNIVERSITY COMPUTATION CENTER

Israel

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Software Engineering Building Tel Aviv University
69978 Tel Aviv

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

JISC COLLECTIONS AND JANET LIMITEDLBG

United Kingdom

EU contribution

€ 8 325

Address

Library Avenue Harwell Science And Innovation Campus Lumen House
OX11 0SG Didcot

Activity type

Other

KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS

Lithuania

EU contribution

€ 4 143

Address

K Donelaicio 73
44029 Kaunas

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

MACEDONIAN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH NETWORK SKOPJE

North Macedonia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Ulica Dame Gruev 4
1000 Skopje

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA

Montenegro

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Cetinjska 2
81000 Podgorica

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

KORMANYZATI INFORMATIKAI FEJLESZTESI UGYNOKSEG

Hungary

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Vaci Ut 35
1134 Budapest

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

NORDUNET A/S

Denmark

EU contribution

€ 20 600

Address

Kastruplundgade 22 1
2770 Kastrup

Activity type

Other

INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK

Poland

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Noskowskiego 12-14
61 704 Poznan

Activity type

Research Organisations

ENTIDAD PUBLICA EMPRESARIAL RED.ES

Spain

EU contribution

€ 13 200

Address

Edificio Bronce Plaza Manuel Gomez Moreno S/n
28020 Madrid

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKING ASSOCIATION OF MOLDOVA

Moldova

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Stefan Chel Mare 168
2004 Chisinau

Activity type

Other

GROUPEMENT D INTERET PUBLIC POUR LERESEAU NATIONAL DE TELECOMMUNICATIONS POUR LA TECHNOLOGIE L ENSEIGNEMENT ET LA RECHERCHE

France

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Rue Daviel 23-25
75013 Paris

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

FONDATION RESTENA (RESEAU TELEINFORMATIQUE DE L'EDUCATION NATIONALE ETDE LA RECHERCHE)

Luxembourg

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

2 Avenue De L'universite
4365 Esch-sur-alzette

Activity type

Research Organisations

Agentia de Administrare a Retelei Nationale de Informatica Pentru Educatie si Cercetare

Romania

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Strada Mendeleev 21-25
010362 Bucuresti

Activity type

Research Organisations

ZDRUZENIE POUZIVATELOV SLOVENSKEJAKADEMICKEJ DATOVEJ SIETE-SANET

Slovakia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Vazovova 5
812 69 Bratislava

Activity type

Other

SURFnet bv

Netherlands

EU contribution

€ 11 925

Address

Moreelsepark 48
3511 EP Utrecht

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

SWITCH

Switzerland

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Effingerstrasse 15
3008 Bern

Activity type

Other

TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU

Turkey

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Ataturk Bulvari 221
06100 Ankara

Activity type

Research Organisations

UNIVERSITA TA MALTA

Malta

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

University Campus, Tal-qroqq
2080 Msida

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

ASSOCIATION OF USERS OF UKRAINIAN RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC NETWORK URAN

Ukraine

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Peremogy Avenue 37 Building 2 37
03056 Kyiv

Activity type

Research Organisations

LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATES MATEMATIKAS UN INFORMATIKAS INSTITUTS

Latvia

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Raina Bulvaris 29
1459 Riga

Activity type

Research Organisations

QENDREN NDERINSTITUCIONALE TE RRJETI AKADEMIK SHQIPTAR

Albania

EU contribution

€ 0

Address

Rruga Sami Frasheri 54
1001 Tirana

Activity type

Research Organisations