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The GÉANT association, which oversees the European research network, has elected new members to its Board of Directors. Claudio Allocchio, Senior Technical Officer GARR, was also elected for a three-year term.

GARR NEWS 28 is available online, delving into diverse themes associated with the continually evolving concept of the frontier, which is a mission central to GARR's goals.

Financing innovative research activities on ICT topics is the objective of the GARR scholarships intended for young graduates under 30.

Registrations are now open for the new edition of the GARR 2023 workshop “Net Makers” which will take place at the National Central Library of Rome from November 8th to 10th. November 7th will be dedicated to training sessions.

The official dates and location for the upcoming GARR "Net Makers" Workshop are out. This annual gathering takes place from Tuesday, November 7th (a day dedicated to training) to Friday, November 10th, at the National Central Library in Rome, located at Viale Castro Pretorio 105, 00185.

Today, on September 28th, the first dedicated network connection was initiated for the innovative SAR-GRAV laboratory, located in the former Sos Enattos mine area in Lula (NU), Sardinia. This site is Italy's candidate to host the future large research infrastructure in Europe for the study of gravitational waves, known as the Einstein Telescope.

On the occasion of European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), GÉANT organises the Become a Cyber ​​Hero campaign, which includes a series of training activities, including webinars and online panels, held in English by security experts from the research community across Europe.

The world of Open Science and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is gearing up for two prominent events to be held in Madrid, as part of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union's events, and the Skills4EOSC project, coordinated by GARR, will play a central role in both of these prestigious occasions.

GARR offers a new training opportunity on the ACME protocol dedicated to all those in the GARR CS community who manage SSL certificate renewals. Certificate renewals occur with increasingly frequent deadlines, and the ACME protocol is a valid ally.

The Open Science Café, the monthly appointment with Open Science, is back. The first date of this new edition is Thursday 14 September with "Generative artificial intelligence and copyright", a webinar held by the lawyer Simone Aliprandi on the topic of applied copyright to creative productions generated by artificial intelligence.

Thanks to an innovative multi-domain spectrum sharing, GARR and GÉANT have connected two data centers over 1000 km apart at 1.6 Tbps: the CNAF in Bologna and the CERN computing center in Geneva.

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GARR 2022 Annual Report is now available online, providing an overview of the network's developments, services and activities carried out by the entire team throughout the year.

A new multimedia gallery on the 2023 GARR conference is now available online. It contains photos, interviews and complete videos of the presentations held at the event that took place from 14 to 16 June at the Novoli campus of the University of Florence.

GARR has released the Gender Equality Plan 2023-2025 (GEP) to actively support gender equality and promote the evolution of an increasingly inclusive organization.

Save the date for the new edition of the GARR Workshop. The annual meeting organised by the Italian research and education network will be held from 7 to 10 November in Rome.

This year, TNC, the main international conference dedicated to networking and connectivity in the research and education field, organized by GÉANT, is hosted from June 5th to June 9th in Tirana by RASH, the Albanian National Research and Education Network (NREN).

The IT security awareness course developed by the University of Ferrara is now available for everyone thanks to the collaboration with GARR.

Claudio Allocchio, Senior Technical Officer of GARR, was awarded for the second time with the e-Culture Award, a recognition for the important collaborative and co-creative work in advanced Internet networks in the cultural field in art, science, technology and society.

GARR President, Maurizio Tira, was elected to the Board of Directors of the European University Association (EUA) on the occasion of the General Assembly of the association, which was held in Gdansk (Poland) on April 20th.

In the framework of the TeRABIT project, funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP - NextGenerationEU funds), INFN, Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics is hiring 1 staff unit as Infrastructure Manager (deadline for applications: 8th May).

In the frame of the TeRABIT project, financed by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR - NextGenerationEU funds), the research group in Dynamics of Ecosystems and Computational Oceanography of the Oceanography Section of OGS is hiring 12 staff units for researchers and technologists (deadline for applications: 4th May).

The survey aims to identify the presence of Data Stewards in Italian Universities and Research Institutions.

The migration to the new GARR-T network infrastructure has entered a new phase. With Phase 3, activities in the Northwest regions have been completed, and the new network has arrived in Rome and Florence.

The IDEM Federation's scientific technical committee and the IDEM GARR AAI Service have collaborated to create a shared document on digital identity assurance profiles, a system of rules for verifying and asserting the quality of digital identities within the IDEM Federation.

The GÉANT General Assembly has recently renewed the composition of the GÉANT Project Planning Committee (GPPC), the body of NREN representatives which oversees and guides the planning and submission of proposals that the GÉANT Association engages in.

The Rome office of GARR is looking for a communication specialist. Applications must be submitted by 12.00 on April 11, 2023.

About cloud technology, many institutions are currently debating whether to rely entirely on public cloud services (managed by the major international market players) or to build and maintain their ownh cloud infrastructures, maybe considering the federation of resources as with the GARR Cloud.

The Horizon 2020 project NEANIAS, which began at the end of 2019 with the goal of developing prototypes of innovative services in the EOSC context, particularly for the submarine, atmospheric, and space research sectors, has been completed. The project's Italian scientific partners are GARR, INAF, and UNIMIB, while ALTEC (an ASI subsidiary) and MEEO participated as SMEs (small and medium-sized companies).

On 14 March 2023 a new project was launched in Italy: TeRABIT. Supported by the EU funds of Italy's recovery and resilience plan, the project aims to build by 2025 a next-generation integrated computing and network infrastructure to improve collaboration and information exchange among Italian scientific communities.

Two vacancies are now open as Junior Network Engineer for GARR Rome office. Applications must be submitted by by filling in the form by 12.00 on 23 March 2023.

The installation and configuration of the new computing and storage resources were completed successfully.

The Scholars’ Day 2023 takes place on February 27 at the GARR headquarters in Rome: an opportunity to get to know the new winners of the Orio Carlini scholarships and their research projects.

From 3 April 2023, the old Webmeetings service will be discontinued in favour of video communication services based on open solutions.

The annual GARR Conference is the event dedicated to networking professionals and researchers who use the network and services on a daily basis.

The new GARR NEWS is online! In this edition we present the new initiatives funded by the NRRP and we provide some updates on the new, future-proof network GARR-T.

The University of Florence will host the new GARR conference from June 14–16.

The volume containing the Selected Papers of the GARR Conference 2022, which took place in Palermo from 18 to 20 May, has been published.

On November 27, the renown physicist Stavros Katsanevas passed away. He had been director since 2018 of the GARR-connected European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), whose headquarters are based in Cascina, near Pisa.

The new statute of the GARR Consortium was signed during an extraordinary General Assembly. The document was signed by GARR president Maurizio Tira and the representatives of the member institutions: Sarah Chen (CNR), Roberto Iaschi (ENEA), Giorgio Mosconi (CRUI), Antonio Zoccoli (INFN), Giovanni Scarpato (INGV).