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On February 5th, the Estonian cities of Tallinn and Tartu have been connected by music for a day. Thanks to the well known LoLa system, 5 masterclasses were organised in real-time between the Tartu School of Music and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater.

Enlighten Your Research (EYR) is a program designed to increase the use and awareness of e-infrastructure resources in various fields of research.

The Italian Statistics Competition has begun, an event organised by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) and the Italian Statistics Society in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. For a week, more than 3000 highschool students will contend the first place and the winner will go to the next phase, the European Statistics competition (ESC) organised by Eurostat.

To celebrate the memory of Rob Blokzijl , Internet pioneer, RIPE founder and Chair for 25 years, the Rob Blokzijl Foundation welcomes to apply or nominate someone who has made a substantial and sustained technical or operational contribution to the development of the Internet in the RIPE NCC service region (Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia).

The EU-funded AfricaConnect2 project has just announced that WACREN, the regional Research and Education Network in West and Central Africa, will join the global Research and Education networking community.

Big Data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and in particular how artificial intelligence is changing the formulation of diagnosis and treatment in medicine, the new network model and security: here are some of the main topics covered in this issue.

Last 6 December, the new 100 Gbps research link between Singapore and Japan, was launched.

GARR has announced the result of a new technological innovation that has made it possible for the Italian research and education network to increase its performance by about 5 times, reaching potential capacity up to 8 Tbps.

The new version of the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for the GARR Network, approved on last 6th November by the BoD, is now online.

During the last GÉANT General Assembly, held on 23 November in Prague, attendees voted for four open GÉANT Board positions.

The physicist Adalberto Giazotto, the pioneer of gravitational wave research and creator of the Virgo detector, built in Italy, at Cascina, in the Pisan countryside by INFN and the CNRS (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique) has died.

This week’s exciting announcements from the LIGO and Virgo teams of the first observations of a “Kilonova” (The merging of two neutron stars generating both gravitational waves and a range of electromagnetic waves) on the 17th August 2017 demonstrates the power and value of international collaborations.