The European Commission supports the science e-infrastructure with a €25m grant agreement for GÉANT
Together with Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), GÉANT has a long history of meeting the diverse needs of a European research and education community that includes organisations such as CERN, the European Southern Observatory, EUMETSAT and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
`I am delighted to announce the signature of the new grant agreement between GÉANT and the EC. With this signature, we will reinforce even further our pan-European network for scientific excellence and European research and innovation. By assuring world-leading connectivity between Europe and the rest of the world in support of global research collaborations, GÉANT continues to help researchers and the wider community to contribute to Europe’s growth strategy`, Augusto Burgueño Arjona, Head of Unit eInfrastructure at European Commission Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology.
By providing the superfast pan-European network and an integrated suite of services including security, authentication, authorisation and identity GÉANT ensures the trust and confidence essential to large scale research collaboration, data-intensive science, HPC and cloud computing, and helping to achieve the EC’s Open Science objectives.
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About GÉANT
GÉANT is Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related e-infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe’s economic growth and competitiveness. The organisation develops, delivers and promotes advanced network and associated e-infrastructure services, and supports innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst its members, partners and the wider research and education networking community.
GÉANT has 41 member countries and is owned by its core NREN membership, and also has Associate members including commercial organisations and multi-national research infrastructures and projects.
GÉANT was formed on 7 October 2014, when TERENA and DANTE joined forces and adopted the GÉANT name from the GÉANT Project, which continues to be a major area of the organisation’s work.
