From Tuesday 10 March, GARR staff have been operating mainly remotely (smart working) following the evolution of the COVID-19 emergency.
Fino al 10 marzo è possibile candidarsi per diventare speaker alla Conferenza GARR, che sarà ospitata dall’Università di Palermo dal 20 al 22 maggio.
On Friday 6 December Lajos Bálint, former deputy director and head of International Relations of the Hungarian National Research and Education Network KIFU/Hungarnet, suddently passed away.
From 4 to 5 December 2019 GARR participates to The Knowledge Network, the ARNES autumn Conference.
This year Klaas Wierenga, the inventor of eduroam, has been honoured by being inducted into the internet hall of fame and now eduroam itself has been recognised by the WiFi industry and nominated as a finalist for “Product of the Year” at the annual WiFi Awards.
On 21-22 November, the EaPConnect project and GARR hosted an advanced workshop dedicated to GARR federated Cloud and cloud applications.
The European project Up2University (Up2U) has launched a self-paced course on cybersecurity specially designed for teachers, schools IT technicians and students.
The Call for Proposals for TNC20 is open. TNC20, organised by GÉANT and hosted by JISC, will be held on 8-12 June 2020 in Brighton, UK.
CERN Council confirmed the Italian Fabiola Gianotti as director- general of the European particle physics laboratory, the most important in the world.
On November 5-7 in Milan the second edition of Hack the Cloud will take place: a hackathon created in collaboration with the University of Milano-Bicocca and GARR.
The president of Consortium GARR and rector of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Sauro Longhi, was appointed president of Sidra, the company promoting the development of industry 4.0.
On 24 September, in Venice, the LoLa technology and the high-bandwidth of research and education networks made it possible for 2 choirs located 5.000 km away to seamlessly perform together in real-time.
