Registrations are now open for the 2021 edition of GARR Workshop - Net Makers, that will take place online from 8 to 12 November.
Read more: Workshop GARR 2021 - NET MAKERS: Registrations are now open!
INFN, the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, just turned70 years old and opened the celebrations for this milestone with an event at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, in the presence of the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa.
For GARR and its community, 2020 was a decisive year, marked by many changes due to the technological evolution for the new generation and new services and by the pandemic situation.
The new edition of the annual GARR workshop will take place from 8 to 12 November 2021. For the second year, in consideration of the evolution of the Covid-19 situation, the event will be held online.
Read more: Save the date: GARR workshop 2021 on 8-12 november
The presentations of GARR Conference 2021 “Sustainable / Digital”, which took place online from 7 to 16 June, are available online.
Read more: All videos and materials of GARR Conferfence 2021 are now online
Massimo Carboni, coordinator of the GARR Infrastructure Department, received the "Campione" award for technology, for the initiative to make GARR videoconferencing systems available to all citizens starting from March 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency.
Read more: Massimo Carboni awarded for the “Iorestoacasa” initiative
On 1 June 2021, on the occasion of the "Leading the Digital Decade" event in Porto, the
Read more: Ellalink: inauguration of the submarine fibre cable linking Europe and Latin America
Registrations are open for the GARR Conference “Sostenibile/Digitale - Data and technologies for the future”, which will take place online from 10.00 to 12.30 between 7 and 16 June.
The recording of the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW) 2021 is now online. The international event dedicated to innovative technologies in the performing arts using advanced networks such as Internet2, GÉANT and other international partners was held on April 27-28.
A new service is available for GARR user community: AudioConf, a solution for setting up conference calls and invite others to join by simply dialing a telephone number.
www.horizon-europe.it is online: the Italian website dedicated to the new framework program of the European Union for research and innovation 2021 - 2027.
In this particular year, RACI (RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative), which supports the academic world and funds important events such as the RIPE Meeting and the RIPE NCC regional meetings, has decided to allocate the funds available in 2021 to support research projects relevant to the work carried out within the RIPE NCC (network coordination centre).
Claudio Allocchio, GARR Senior Technical Officer, received the e-Culture Award, in recognition for collaborative and co-creative work on advanced networks in the cultural field (art, science, technology and society).
Read more: e-Culture 2021: Allocchio awarded in Latin America
GARR is recruiting 4 DevOps & Technical Support Engineers, and 1 Network Operator.
Read more: GARR is looking for 5 professionals in Software Development and Network Operations
On April 21, from 9.30 to 13.00, GARR Scholars’ Day 2021 will take place online and will be an opportunity to meet the new winners of the Orio Carlini scholarships and their research projects.
Read more: Let us introduce you the the 10 winners of the Orio Carlini scholarships 2021
The Network Performing Arts Production Workshop will be held online on April 27-28. The workshop focuses on innovative technologies in the performing arts that utilize advanced networks provisioned by Internet2, GÉANT, and partners across the globe.
Discovery of the subatomic odderon particle by the international scientific collaborations Totem, at the LHC of CERN, and DØ, at the Tevatron of Fermilab.
GARR offers a guide for the generation of the European Student Identifier and access to access to Erasmus+ student mobility services via eduGAIN.
Read more: Erasmus+ and European Student Identifier with eduGAIN
After years of planning and collaboration, last March 4th the BELLA program reached an important milestone: the completion of the construction of the new EllaLink submarine cable system that directly connects Europe (the GÉANT network) to Latin America (the RedClara network).
Read more: Land! The EllaLink transatlantic cable has just arrived in Latin America
The interconnection between the broadband network of the Puglia Region and the GARR network dedicated to the research community is fully operational.
Read more: Interconnection between GARR and the Apulian regional network
GARR Conference “Sustainable/Digital. Data and technology for the future”, which was reschedule because of the COVID-19 emergency, will take place from 7 to 15 June 2021 online.
Read more: GARR Conference 2021: the call for papers is open
GARR launches a survey aimed at its user community education and research sector in Italy.
Read more: New initiative to assess the training needs of the GARR community
Online from today the Italian Covid-19 Data Portal, which allows researchers to upload, access and analyse reference data and specialised datasets related to Sars-CoV-2 and Covid-19.
The Italian Covid Data Portal aims to display the scientific data produced nationally on Covid-19 and Sars-Cov-2 and promote their open sharing.
Read more: The Italian portal dedicated to Covid-19 goes online
On February 26, GARR director Federico Ruggieri will take part in the online seminar Open tools for distance learning and public administration, organised by the University of Pisa.
The GÉANT Innovation Program is a new initiative within the European National Research and Education Networks and their user community to support innovative proposals and ideas.
Read more: GÉANT Innovation Program - an opportunity to test innovative ideas
The OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) project has published the catalogue dedicated to the procurement of public cloud services for education and research organisations.
eduroam, the world-wide Wi-Fi roaming service, has recently extended its reach in Italy thanks to the participation of the Italian Ministry of Education and Research in the eduroam Federation.
Read more: eduroam lands at the Italian Ministry of University and Research
The IDEM Service and the Technical and Scientific Committee of the IDEM Federation, in anticipation of the deadline introduced by the decree on simplifications, asked the Department for digital transformation of the Ministry for technological innovation and digitization to clarify some issues regarding the mandatory nature of the Public Digital Identity System (SPID) for the organisations belonging research and education community.
Read more: Dept of digital transformation elucidate on SPID use for R&E community
Online registration for IDEM day 2021, to be held online on next 24, 25 and 26 February, is now open.
Scientific measurements are carried out in Sardinia for the characterization of the Sos Enattos mine site, in Lula, for the construction of the Einstein Telescope, the third generation pioneering observatory for gravitational waves.
Read more: Einstein Telescope: at the start the geophysical measurement campaign
The National Open Access Desk of OpenAIRE for Italy organises, in collaboration with the ICDI Competence Centre, a course addressed to coordinators of H2020 and Horizon Europe projects, with the aim to address questions on Open Science and Open Access related to EU funds.
In occasion of GARR annual Staff meeting, held online this year, GARR Director Federico Ruggieri shared a message dedicated not only to the GARR staff, but also to colleagues from the Research and Education community in Italy and workdwide.
The first general assembly of EOSC Aisbl, the international organization that aims at implementing the European vision of open science, saw the election of the Italian Marialuisa Lavitrano as Director with a three-year mandate in the first BoD.
GARR has recently launched the new version of GINS, GARR suite including tools for network diagnostics, acquisition and display of traffic statistics, trouble tickets, flow analysis and reporting.
GARR is recruiting 4 DevOps & Technical Support Engineer, 1 Junior Network Engineer and 3 Network Operator.
Read more: GARR is looking for 8 professionals in Software Development and Network Operations
For the first time, the musicians of a Jazz Trio played simultaneously together from three different locations - Trieste, Vienna and Tallinn - thanks to LoLa 2.0 technology and research networks connection
ICDI, the national initiative for the Open Science Cloud created by the main Italian research institutions and animated by GARR, has published a position paper on EOSC's Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).
Read more: Online the Italian contribution to the EOSC strategic agenda (SRIA)
GARR connectivity with Mix and Namex, the main Italian Internet Exchanges (IXP), was enhanced with two new 100 Gbps links.
Italy has formalised the proposal to build the Einstein Telescope in Sardinia, the third generation pioneering observatory for gravitational waves that will contribute considerably to improve our knowledge of the universe.
Read more: It's official! Italy on the race for the Einstein Telescope
A sad loss in the world of Italian research, professor Nichi D'Amico, president of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), passed away prematurely and suddenly. D'Amico, who was 67, has been president of INAF since 2015 and had been reconfirmed for another four-years mandate in 2019.
Read more: Italian Research mourns INAF President Nichi D'Amico
The Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has launched a selection for 2 research fellows in the field of big data and AI. Applications close on 18 September.
The Court of Justice of the EU calls into question the agreements between EU and USA on privacy, considering the guarantees offered to European citizens insufficient: a decision ripe with consequences on the use of public clouds
Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, in a scientific partnership with the ICRIOS Center of Università Bocconi, have just presented the pre-acceleration programme for InnoVentureLab startup, a free online program aiming at supporting the creation of new businesses in the Italian scenario.
On the 29 July in Brussels the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) Association, an international non-profit association was created for the development and the coordination of the European Open Science Cloud.
Read more: Italy at the forefront for the 'European Open Science Cloud'
The Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) project announced the publication of its first open funding call focused on consumable commercial cloud and digital services for researchers, available via its frameworks.
Read more: OCRE open call to fund the purchase of commercial cloud services for researchers
The new edition of the annual GARR workshop will take place from 2 to 6 November 2020. In consideration of the many uncertainties regarding the evolution of the Covid-19 situation, this years' edition will be held online.
Read more: Save the date! GARR workshop on 2-6 November 2020
The new cybersecurity incidents management procedure for the GARR network is online.
Read more: CERT: New security incidents management procedure
In the coming months, GARR is offering a wide range of training opportunities to cybersecurity, schools, open science but also to all those who want to master the art of communicating effectively online. Let's see them in detail.
The Italian national funds necessary to complete the Bologna Technopole have been officially authorised.
Read more: Bologna Technopole: 40 million euros for the Italian city of science
GARR Conference “Sustainable/Digital. Data and technology for the future” will take place from 19 to 21 May 2021 in Palermo.
Read more: GARR Conference on May 2021 in Palermo: the call for papers is now open