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South Africa: coping during power outages

How an NREN is intensifying its efforts to mitigate the consequences of scheduled, rolling electricity outages for its connected institutions.

Extending the reach of eduroam to more airports: Bangladesh and South Africa

eduroam - the free Wi-Fi roaming service for the international research and education community - is available at more than 30 airports around the globe, with deployments at airports in Bangladesh and South Africa among the latest.

Helping a community stay connected after record floods

When floods inundated the city of Lismore Australia, Southern Cross University became a hub for the town, using AARNet to provide connectivity for recovery efforts.

Oman airport introduces eduroam

Students and academic staffers can now access the eduroam Wi-Fi service at the Muscat International Airport of the Sultanate of Oman.

Open science helps us understand the Vikings

A European initiative for open science allows archaeologists to map the journeys of Vikings based on artifacts found in different countries.

ChatGPT for public education policies in Brazil

An innovative approach to improving the service experience for users of mobile data chips provided by the Internet Brasil program

Synchrotron sheds light on ancient Middle East

The technology reveals evidence for human heavy metal exposure, as well as preservation status of bone, dental tissue, and hair at micrometre scales.

Nordic climate researchers stronger together

Thanks to an EU open science program, the climate researchers in each Nordic country do not need to create their models of the Nordic climate system from scratch.

How Brazil tackled internet outages caused by heavy rain

After heavy rain caused internet outages in Petrópolis, the national research and education network of Brazil, RNP, managed to reestablish normal operation within a week.

URAN solves cloud services issues caused by the increased demand for virtual machines during the war

Numerous universities were able to take advantage of the free cloud services offered by URAN, but the increased demand led to an unforeseen crisis caused by disk storage overload in the NREN’s data centre.

Scientific computing contributes to superconductivity

Through a combination of new theory and raw computing power, at team at King’s College London is able to support development of superconducting materials. NRENs provide the necessary data transfer.

Brazil assists Cape Verde in building its network

An initiative called RENaaS– Education and Research Network as a Service – offers all the functionalities of a virtual network as a service, and helps developing countries implement or even expand their academic networks at low cost.