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From 7 April to 16 May 2025, staff from Nigeria’s national research and education network (NgREN) are taking part in an intensive training programme on federated identity and integration with eduGAIN.
Read more: Nigeria Invests in Federated Identity: GÉANT and GARR Train NgREN Staff
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Registrations are now open for the upcoming international webinar on cybersecurity awareness, organised by the GÉANT community for the research and education sector.
Read more: Cybersecurity Without Fear: Webinar with Brian Honan on 22 May
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GARR is looking for a Network Engineer to join the Packet Network team, which is responsible for the design, technological evolution, implementation and management of the GARR network, serving the research and education community in Italy.
Read more: Job opportunity: we’re hiring a Network Engineer for our Rome office
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The programme of the GARR Conference 2025 is available online. From 13 to 15 May, at the University of Bari, experts from the technological, academic, and research sectors will gather to share experiences on the evolution of digital infrastructures, the use of artificial intelligence, data protection, and the future of computing for science.
Read more: Digital Frontiers: GARR Conference 2025 Programme Now Available
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Starting today, the new eduVPN service is officially available for students, teachers, and researchers, allowing them to browse securely wherever they are.
Read more: GARR launches the new eduVPN service for secure connections worldwide
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On 15 April, Namex – Rome’s Internet hub and the main Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for Central and Southern Italy – celebrated its 30th anniversary. The milestone was marked in Rome at the Protomoteca Hall on the Capitoline Hill, with representatives from institutions, digital pioneers, and leaders of major tech companies in attendance.
Since its establishment in 1995, Namex has consistently invested in developing a cutting-edge digital infrastructure, which today serves millions of users through a continuously expanding network. Today, Namex is a non-profit consortium, bringing together 180 organisations and interconnecting 260 telecom networks. It ranks among the top 10% of the world’s most high-performing IXPs in terms of traffic volume.
GARR has also played a key role in the success of this infrastructure, having always worked closely with Namex to create an increasingly widespread and collaborative network ecosystem.
During the event, ten pioneers who helped shape Namex into the organisation it is today were honoured. Among them was Enzo Valente, founder and former director of GARR. His contribution was recognised as decisive, thanks to his determination in revolutionising the geography of Internet peering in Italy. In 1998, GARR managed to shift the main interconnection with TIM from Naples to Rome — a move that not only improved network performance, but also symbolically cemented the central role of Rome’s IXP on the national stage.
Another key moment in the collaboration between GARR and Namex came in 2003, when Namex was chosen to host Italy’s first root name server and the third F-Root instance in Europe, after Madrid and Moscow.
The anniversary celebration also offered an opportunity to reflect on the history and evolution of the Internet in Italy from the mid-1990s to today, featuring insights from some of its key players, including Massimiliano Capitanio, Commissioner of Agcom (the Italian Communications Authority), Maurizio Decina of Politecnico di Milano, Renato Brunetti, President of Namex, Paolo Nuti, Co-founder and former President of AIIP, and Enzo Valente, former Director of GARR.
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The 10 pioneers who helped make Namex one of Italy’s leading Internet interconnection hubs:
- Bo Arnklit - MCLink
- Enzo Valente - GARR
- Francesco Proietti - Caspur
- Gianni Sandrucci - Agorà Telematica
- John Souter - Linx
- Nino Catania - ANFoV
- Paolo Bevilacqua – Unidata
- Paolo Nuti - MCLink/AIIP
- Renato Brunetti - Unidata
- Riccardo De Sanctis - Namex
- Silvano Fraticelli - MCLink
Go to the event website NAMEX website
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GARR is seeking a recent graduate with a passion for networking and optical communication technologies to join our team as an Optical Network Engineer at our Rome headquarters.
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Wednesday, April 9, at the ENEA Research Centre in Portici (Naples), the CRESCO 8 high-performance supercomputer will be inaugurated. Designed to support national scientific research with advanced computing capabilities, CRESCO 8 represents a significant step forward in computational power.
The event will feature a workshop focusing on the strategic role of High Performance Computing (HPC) in technological innovation. Among the participants in the institutional session will be Massimo Bernaschi, Vice President of GARR, alongside representatives from ENEA, CNR, CINECA, INFN, as well as local and ministerial authorities.
CRESCO 8, the latest evolution of the CRESCO supercomputer family, has been acquired through funding from the European Next Generation EU programme. Among its key applications, it will support the PNRR Divertor Tokamak Test Facility Upgrade (DTT-U) project, dedicated to plasma physics simulations and experimental data management. This system will enhance research in energy, sustainability, and digital transformation, strengthen national scientific infrastructures, and consolidate ENEA’s role in technological innovation, working in collaboration with industry and international partners.
GARR has always interconnected the various versions of CRESCO, and with the new GARR-T network, it has reinforced the backbone links of the PoP hosted in Portici, now benefiting from a dual 100 Gbps connection. This upgrade, funded by the PNRR as part of the ICSC project, has focused on Southern Italy, increasing the total backbone capacity in the Campania region to 4.4 Tbps.
The event is open to the public, with free participation upon registration: https://www.eventi.enea.it/tutti-gli-eventi-enea/inaugurazione-del-supercalcolatore-cresco-8.html
Inaugurazione del supercalcolatore CRESCO 8 - 4/9/2025
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On 2 April, Lise Fuhr, CEO of GÉANT, visited GARR as part of a series of introductory meetings with national research networks (NRENs) across Europe. These meetings were initiated by the new head of the organisation at the start of her tenure in November 2024.
The visit provided GARR with the opportunity to present an update on its organisation, infrastructure, and user community, highlighting its specific features and needs. The meeting was a key opportunity to strengthen cooperation among research networks and develop common solutions to address future challenges in Europe.
GÉANT, the European backbone connecting national research and education networks, faces the challenge of harmonising the diversity of national networks, which operate in different geopolitical contexts and feature highly varied governance models, management structures, user communities, and service offerings. GÉANT’s core mission is to interconnect these networks, bridging their differences to create a research support infrastructure that meets the needs of all. In this context, mediation and interaction play a crucial role in integrating the various "identities" within this community. GÉANT facilitates dialogue among networks, working to unify different perspectives and ensure increasingly effective and productive cooperation.
As one of GÉANT’s founding and active supporting members, GARR collaborates to provide high-capacity connectivity across Europe and beyond. Recently, GARR upgraded its connection to the European backbone, increasing its total capacity to 600 Gbps, responding to the growing data exchange demands of international collaborations. This was particularly evident during the LHC Data Challenge, where data transfer peaks exceeded 200 Gbps.
What is GÉANT?
GÉANT is Europe’s ultra-high-capacity backbone network, connecting research and education networks across the continent with multiple 100 Gbps links and advanced services for major research infrastructures. The network interconnects over 50 million users in approximately 10,000 scientific, educational, and cultural institutions across Europe, transferring more than 7 petabytes of data daily. With a scalable capacity of up to 8 Tbps, GÉANT supports the evolving needs of the scientific and education communities.
GÉANT is co-funded by the European Commission and research and education networks across Europe, including GARR. These networks manage and guide the GÉANT organisation. Its infrastructure and services continuously evolve thanks to research carried out within dedicated projects. For over 20 years, GÉANT and Europe’s research networks have been at the forefront of telecommunications technologies, ensuring ongoing support for the ever-changing needs of research and education users across Europe. GÉANT is in turn globally interconnected with the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia and, thanks to dedicated projects, is able to reach even the most remote areas of the planet to connect unique research infrastructures and make them available to scholars from anywhere in the world.
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The new edition of the Rome Science Festival has been unveiled, marking its 20th anniversary this year. From 8 to 13 April, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, research will take centre stage under the theme Bodies. This edition will explore human bodies with their features, shapes, functions, transformations, and adaptations, as well as animal and plant bodies, microscopic entities such as viruses and bacteria, celestial bodies, and, thanks to technological advancements, hybrid and mechanical bodies like robots and automatons.
Renowned scientists, journalists, and intellectuals will engage in discussions and reflections on this year’s theme with the multidisciplinary and cross-cutting approach that defines the festival. The event is structured around five thematic areas: Complex bodies, original bodies, responsible bodies, plastic bodies, and restless bodies. In addition to a rich programme of talks, the festival will feature exhibitions, interactive installations, activities for schools, and workshops for young people and families.
GARR will be among the key players with a dedicated event on 12 April at 12:00 in the Auditorium Arte hall.
The session will highlight the importance of digital infrastructures in supporting researchers in multidisciplinary collaborations and explore the promising frontiers of sensing research—the innovative use of optical fibres as environmental sensors. The conference, titled “The sea that listens and tells its story - Il mare che ascolta e racconta”, will take attendees deep into the ocean’s depths, far from surface light and noise. Here, an intricate network of electronic eyes and ears helps monitor climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystems by listening to the sea. At the same time, while exploring the depths, marine observatories also detect signals from space, collecting valuable data about the universe. Speakers at the event include Luigi Antonio Fusco, professor at the University of Salerno and INFN associate (Naples section); Giuditta Marinaro, senior technologist at INGV, coordinator of international activities for EMSO-ERIC, and head of research on geosphere-ocean-atmosphere interactions; Paolo Bolletta, optical infrastructure expert at GARR; and Fabrizio Bocchino, researcher at INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Palermo. The discussion will be moderated by science journalist and communicator Giorgia Burzachechi.
Produced by the Fondazione Musica per Roma, with project partnership from Codice Edizioni, the Rome Science Festival is promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Culture, and organised in collaboration with INAF and INFN. Scientific partners include Bioparco di Roma, CMCC, CNR, ENEA, ESA, GARR, GSSI, Humanitas University, Human Technopole, IIT, INGV, ISPRA, Museo Galileo – Institute and Museum of the History of Science, and the Planetarium of Roma Capitale.
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March 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the LHC Optical Private Network (LHCOPN), the first global collaboration dedicated to managing and transferring the vast amounts of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN in Geneva.
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From 18 to 20 March, Sardinia hosted three intensive days focused on the future of research, featuring discussions on the latest scientific and managerial advancements related to Italy's bid for the Einstein Telescope. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between GARR and the Sardinia Region, and the vision for the ET-SUnLab research centre (Einstein Telescope Sardinia Underground Laboratory) was unveiled. These three interconnected and significant initiatives are designed to strengthen Italy’s bid and attract investment to the region.
Read more: Sardinia: Memorandum of Understanding with GARR and new ET-SUnLab Research Centre
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The Skills4EOSC project, coordinated by GARR, concludes and will present its achievements at the Final Conference, scheduled for June 11, 2025, in Paris, at Campus Condorcet.
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Registration is now open for the GARR Conference 2025, the annual event where experiences are shared on the use of digital infrastructures and services by those who rely on the GARR network and those who actively contribute to its development and the enhancement of its services.
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GARR is a partner in the European SENSEI project, which aims to unlock the sensing potential of fibre optic networks to enhance the security, resilience, and efficiency of telecommunications infrastructure across Europe.
Read more: GARR is partner of the SENSEI project, the European initiative on sensing
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the #GARRforSTEM campaign is launching—an initiative by GARR to celebrate the role of women in technology and computing.
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President Maurizio Tira is among the key figures of the third edition of Futura Expo, scheduled to take place in Brescia from 7 to 9 March 2025.
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A groundbreaking event marks a turning point in music production: for the first time, a new opera has been rehearsed entirely remotely, with singers, conductor, and composers connected from Finland, Poland, and Italy.
Read more: First remote orchestra rehearsals for the Butterfly project
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From 26 to 28 February, GARR’s headquarters in Rome will host a meeting as part of the GN5-2 project, funded by the European Commission. The event, organised by GÉANT — the European research and education network — is part of Work Package 4 (Service concept development) dedicated to the development of new services.
Read more: GARR hosts European research networks for the GÉANT project
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The latest edition of GARR NEWS is now available. This issue focuses on security across multiple domains: from the role of new European regulations to the protection of data and infrastructures through continuous monitoring and proactive threat detection. It also explores supply chain security and research into AI techniques for detecting fake video content or manipulated images.
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The call for proposals in now open for the next GARR Conference which will be held from 13 to 15 May at the University of Bari.
Read more: Bring your contribution to the GARR 2025 Conference!
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The next edition of the GARR Conference will be hosted by the University of Bari from 13 to 15 May 2025.
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The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) today celebrates its 25th anniversary since its founding in 1999, with the publication of Decree No. 296 in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic.
Read more: INAF: 25 years of excellence in scientific research
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The call for papers is now open for the IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2025), which will take place in Italy from 29 to 31 October 2025 at the "Luigi Zordan" Conference Centre in L’Aquila.
Read more: Internet of Sounds: call for papers now open for the IEEE International Symposium 2025
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The 18th GARR Scholars’ Day will take place online on 23 January 2025, providing an opportunity to meet the recipients of the "Orio Carlini" scholarships and explore their innovative research projects.
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The conference is aimed at security professionals in the research and education sectors, including national research networks, universities, higher education institutions, research infrastructures, and other organisations interested in cybersecurity.
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GARR is seeking a skilled Network Architect to join its team in Rome under a permanent contract.
Read more: Job Opportunity: we are looking for a Network Architect in Rome
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The General Assembly of Internet Society Italy, which convened in Rome at the GARR headquarters on December 6, has renewed its Board and appointed Stefano Giordano as the new President.
Read more: Stefano Giordano named President of Internet Society Italy
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On 5 and 6 December, IGF Italy returns with the theme "The Internet I Want. Let’s Build Our Digital Future Together" to discuss Internet governance policies and the evolution of the digital landscape.
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The GARR Conference 2024 proceedings are now available online. The event was held at the University of Brescia from May 29 to 31, and it featured several renowned speakers who spoke on various topics, fostering cross-cultural mingling and collaboration.
Read more: Navigating complexity: the GARR Conference 2024 proceedings are now online
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The latest issue of GARR NEWS focuses on the importance of knowledge derived from data, a crucial tool for understanding and anticipating complex phenomena in both the real and virtual worlds.
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Quantum networks, cybersecurity, cloud technology, and digital identities were among the key topics addressed during the event in Rome, highlighting the GARR Workshop, Net Makers, as a leading forum for the education and research community.
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GARR is looking for 3 recent graduates passionate about cybersecurity, networking, and emerging technologies in DevOps and cloud computing for its offices in Milan, Rome, and Pisa.
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From 25th to 27th October 2024, GARR will participate in Maker Faire Rome at Gazometro Ostiense.
Read more: GARR at Maker Faire Rome 2024: come and discover Network Invaders
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The complete programme for the Workshop GARR 2024 is now available. It will take place from November 5th to 7th at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.
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There are numerous initiatives for the European month dedicated to cybersecurity (CSM): GARR is also playing a key role, alongside the European research network GÉANT.
Read more: The month of cybersecurity returns: here are the initiatives!
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Today marked the first meeting of the newly appointed Technical Scientific Committee (TSC) of GARR, the advisory body of the Board of Directors that formulates operational proposals and contributes to defining the organisation’s activity programmes. The committee will serve a three-year term until June 2027.
Read more: Newly established Technical Scientific Committee of GARR
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Registrations are now open for the GARR 2024 workshop, the annual meeting on networking for education and research, taking place from 5th to 7th November at the National Central Library in Rome, preceded by a day of training.
Read more: Registration open for GARR 2024 Workshop “Net Makers”
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GÉANT has appointed its new Chief Executive Officer: Danish national Lise Fuhr will take over the leadership of the organisation, succeeding Erik Huizer on 21 November 2024, to head the European network dedicated to education and research.
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We are looking for an HR Payroll and Administrative Specialist to manage key personnel administration activities and prepare reports for defining, monitoring, and controlling personnel costs. The candidate will also collaborate with the external payroll consultant for the payroll process and with GARR administration for drafting the budget and reporting on national and European projects.
Read more: Work with us: GARR is looking for a human resources specialist
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We are looking for an experienced specialist in the legal administrative area to manage tender and procurement procedures and related administrative tasks; draft resolutions, agreements, and contracts, including those within national and European projects.
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The GARR 2023 Annual Report is available online, the bilingual document recounts the developments of the network and the services and activities carried out during the year.
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The new edition of the GARR - Net Makers workshop will be hosted at the National Central Library of Rome from 5th to 7th November 2024.
UPDATE: Due to scheduled works on the Rome-Milan railway line from 8th to 10th November, the workshop has been moved forward to 5th-7th November 2024, with the training day set for 4th November.
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The testing of the dual link through the marine spectrum for connecting Sardinia to GARR-T network has been successfully completed.
Read more: Testing completed for new undersea connection to Sardinia
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Registrations are open for the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop 2024 (NPAPW24), which will be held in Lithuania at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) from the 11th to the 13th of September 2024.
Read more: In September, the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop 2024 in Lithuania
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The Skills4EOSC project is presenting its Competence Centres Network in an online event on 25th June 2024, from 9:30 to 12:30 CEST.
Read more: Skills4EOSC launches the Competence Centres Network
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TNC24 successfully concluded, having taken place in Rennes from 10 to 14 June.
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GARR will be present at TNC24, the leading international conference dedicated to networking and connectivity topics in research and education organised by GÉANT, with a programme of expert presentations from across Europe and beyond.
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The annual GARR conference concluded successfully in Brescia from 29ᵗʰ to 31ˢᵗ May 2024, addressing crucial topics such as digital infrastructure and skills, artificial intelligence, big data, and cybersecurity.
Read more: GARR Conference 2024: Three Days of Dialogue on Digital Complexity in Brescia
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From May 29th to 31st, at the University of Brescia, technology, academic and research experts will gather to share experiences on digital infrastructures and skills, artificial intelligence, big data and cybersecurity.
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The European research and education network GÉANT has initiated a search for a new CEO to lead it into the next phase of its strategic evolution. The position is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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In Bologna, a two-day event with the TeRABIT project, one year after its launch. On 25th June, a public conference entitled "Networks, HPC and Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges created by the National Research Infrastructures" is scheduled.
Read more: TeRABIT Conference: 25th and 26th June in Bologna!