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The European research and education network GÉANT is launching an Innovation Programme to support innovative projects within the European R&E community. The funding - up to EUR 30 000 per project - offers a unique opportunity to enable initial development, establish or test new ideas.

Thanks to the launch of the OCRE Cloud Framework & Catalogue project, GÉANT is favouring the research sector in Europe by facilitating access to a large selection of commercial Cloud services. The complete offer has been available since 29 January.

Are you unfamiliar with blockchain technology, the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) and the development of a European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI)? Here is an overview of the basic concepts of this technology as well as the ideas and strategy behind this European initiative.

A few months ago, we presented you with a framework agreement for the maintenance and acquisition of optical and IP equipment from the brands Ciena, Nokia, Juniper and F5, and the associated services, intended for the Belnet community.

Without adequate protection, the routers of the Belnet network would succumb every day to the many attacks they have to deal with. To make our network even more resilient to cybercrime, new protections have recently been installed for both IPv4 and IPv6.

When the Belgian State Security Service website was left unprotected for several hours last December because a certificate was not renewed on time, it was an embarrassing reminder of the importance of keeping digital certificates up to date.