During this corona crisis, Belnet is doing everything it can to respond to the changing requirements of the organisations connected to us. To this end we have recently made a number of emergency changes to increase the capacity of certain clients.

Maddy Hennebert, head of the Belnet guestroam service at UAntwerpen, kindly shared with us her experience in contact with a solution that her university adopted 2 years ago.

When the coronavirus measures were first initiated, Belnet made a simple videoconferencing platform available to its community. The solution allows the community to securely meet and work together online. In the meantime, many users have found their ways to our Jitsi platform. We have noticed that dozens of meetings, both face-to-face as well as large groups, are taking place simultaneously on a regular basis.

Early March we contacted all Belnet customers to find out more about their events interests and preferences. The survey was a great success!

To help educational institutions during this COVID-19 period, the European research network GÉANT together with several project partners launched the “OpenUp2U” remote learning platform.