- Date: 8 October 2024
- Time: 09:00-15:00
- Venue: Moldova State University (Hall ‘Regina Maria’, 1st floor, Central Building, 60 Alexei Mateevici Street, Chisinau)
‘RENAM E-Infrastructure – Supporting Excellence in National Research and Education’ conference celebrates the 25th anniversary of the National Research and Education Network RENAM.
AGENDA
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration | |
| MORNING SESSION | Session Chairs: Ion Tiginyanu, President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Co-President of RENAM; | |
9:00-9:20 | Official Opening | Welcome address from the Ministry of Education and Research Welcome address from the Delegation of the EU to the Republic Moldova Welcome address from the Moldova State University |
| 9:20-9:35 | 25 years of RENAM e-infrastructure development for support of research and education in Moldova | Ion Tiginyanu, President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Co-President of RENAM |
| 9:35-9:45 | The origins: RENAM foundation and network development | Erich Peplow, NATO consultant |
| 9:45-10:00 | RENAM – essential digital infrastructure for Moldovan R&E in the international landscape | Erik Huizer, Chief Executive Officer of GÉANT |
| 10:00-10:10 | EU strategies and priorities for the EaP region | Thibault Charlet, Programme Manager, DG NEAR |
| 10:10-10:20 | EU4Digital: EaPConnect – bringing together research and education communities | Irina Matthews, EaPConnect Project Manager |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40-10:50 | GÉANT network backbone development | Sebastiano Buscaglione, Senior Network Architect at GÉANT |
| 10:50-11:00 | NRENs belong to their users: how it works in the GÉANT community | Claudio Allocchio, Chair of the GÉANT Community Committee, GÉANT Board member |
| 11:00-11:15 | EaPConnect regional network: challenges in research and education support during the war | Yevhenii Preobrazhenskyi, Executive Director of URAN Association (Ukraine) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Romanian NREN – support for Romanian research facilities | Octavian Rusu, Scientific Director of ARNIEC/RoEduNet Agency (Romania) |
| 11:30-11:45 | The role of NRENs in solving research challenges | Raimundas Tuminauskas, Head of Network and Service Infrastructure Department at PSNC (Poland) |
| 11:45-12:30 | Networking Lunch | |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | Session Chairs: Peter Bogatencov, Chairman of the RENAM Management Board; Grigore Secrieru, Secretary of the RENAM Management Board | |
| 12:30-12:45 | GÉANT services: eduVPN | Tangui Coulouarn, Head of Development and International Engagement at DeiC (Denmark) |
| 12:45-13:00 | The benefits of using the OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) framework | Olaf Verschoor, Procurement Manager at GÉANT |
| 13:00-13:20 | Transforming education through AI: services and assets | Antonio Carrozzo, AWS Education & Research sales Lead |
| 13:20-13:35 | Open Science and EOSC: opportunities and challenges | Aurelia Hanganu, General Director of National Agency for Research and Development |
| 13:35-13:55 | Coffee Break | |
| 13:55-14:10 | Moldova State University: digital infrastructure development for scientific and educational networks | Sergiu Corlat, Vice-Rector for digitalization, Moldova State University |
| 14:10-14:25 | Advanced technologies to support public health systems. National Colposcopy Network | Valuta Diana, Head of Cervical Screening Coordination Unit at Research Institute for Mother and Child Health Care |
| 14:25-14:40 | Fostering sustainable smart community development in Moldova: IT4BA and RENAM partnership | Sergiu Tutunaru, Director of IT4BA Incubator at Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova |
| 14:40-15:00 | Q&A Session. Conference Closing |