The second phase of the GÉANT4 pan-European infrastructure project, which will last for 32 months, until December 31, 2018, began on May 1st. GÉANT4 is being carried out within the FPA (Framework Partnership Agreement), which covers a period of 7 years, and is financed as part of the Horizon2020 program, a European Union Framework Programme for Research, Development and Innovation (2014-2020). Croatia’s representative in the project is the Croatian Academic and Research Network – CARNet.
The GN4GA2 (Special Grant Agreement) will help elevate European research to a higher level by encouraging scientific excellence and access to, as well as reuse of, research data, and by supporting open science. It will also stimulate the reduction of scientific infrastructure costs by promoting the interoperability of e-infrastructures at the European level.
The GÉANT project evolved through its iterations (GN2, GN3, GN3plus, GN4-1) and today includes, in addition to its award-winning 500 Gbps physical network, a portfolio of advanced, user-focused services that push the boundaries of network technologies. The GÉANT network is an advanced pan-European academic and research network (a Multi-gigabit PanEuropean Research and Education Network) that, using its own optical infrastructure, connects European academic and research networks with capacities of up to 500Gbps and links Europe to other continents. The GÉANT network currently connects over 50 million users across Europe.
CARNet's partner in the project, acting as the Third Party, is the University of Zagreb Computing Centre, a long-standing partner of CARNet in GÉANT projects. CARNet continues to actively contribute to the new generation of the project and will maintain its active participation in the development of the advanced pan-European research network through a large number of employees involved in the project.
A lot of confidence was placed in CARNet representatives, who will also be task and activity leaders. Ivana Golub will thus be deputy activity leader for the SA2 activity and task leader for the SA2 T3 task, whereas Branko Radojević from CARNet will be the task leader for the JRA4 T1 task.
More information is available on the official website. GÉANT project.