eduroam: Bringing city-wide WiFi roaming access to Cape Town Why should students and staff from different universities need a separate guest ID for every university or public institution at which they want to use WiFi? Why can’t the systems talk to each other and make our lives – and the lives of IT staff who have to set up these new IDs – easier? Can’t we just switch on our device and be online? eduroam exists to enable just that. The global...
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GÉANT AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS The development of modern communications technology has led to an increasingly connected world in the digital space. Because of this, research and education infrastructural projects such as GÉANT and the community of NRENs behind it are being linked as part of the solution to current and future societal challenges facing the globe. With the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) having...
GÉANT supports remote teaching of performing arts How do artists play music together in times of a crisis like COVID-19? How do they teach, run courses, collaborate, rehearse, and perform during lockdowns all over the world? Enter: the Network Performing Arts Production Workshops (NPAPWs), where the international community comes together to support students, academics, practitioners in the field of music, dance, theatre and helps them to stay...
OpenUp2U offers tools aimed at empowering teachers and students to develop skills that are key in the 21st century’s educational environment, such as programming, problem solving, communication, media & technology literacy, self-direction and learning to learn. Teachers, students and educational institutions are encouraged to check the openUp2U booklet and user guide available on the platform’s webpage. Registering to the platform can be...