NRENs and education

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NRENs and education is GÉANT's new activity to support our community in enhancing their educational activities. National research and education networks have always been providing connectivity and services to their higher educational institutions. The focus expanded to offer more services to support education with the ever changing technological advances. The constant innovation and changes create new opportunities and also new challenges for our community. With this activity we plan to address the commonalities and create future vision for the benefit of the community.

Main areas of the activity:

Identify common goals to work together
Identify common challenges
Create a global vision and strategy

The activity plans to create an open forum where experts from its community exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the research and education networking community.

Planned next steps:

Create an open forum of experts for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on supporting education;
Create an overview of GÉANT members activities related to their educational challenges (includes variance of national model for NREN and educational institution relations, government relations and funding)
Identify and address common areas of interest (e.g. learning analytics, data, security and privacy, mobility)
Identify and address common challenges (e.g. harmonise country approaches, policies)
Identify and develop services and service packages to support the community
Provide a persuasive body of evidence for those NRENs developing support for their country to enable decision makers to resource technological support effectively

The achievements and KPIs for the first year

Planned achievements	KPIs	Due Date
GÉANT expert group created and the group's focus and objectives are communicated to all NRENs	More than 3 NREN represented the expert group	October 2018 COMPLETE
Overview of GÉANT member activities is created	All 38 NREN activities in education are visible	end of October 2018 COMPLETE
2 VC expert group meeting takes place with the objectives of identifying common interest areas and common challenges	Workplan with NREN leads identified	end of October 2018
Create a common activity plan for 2019
Identify possible topics and speakers for TNC2019
Identify key events to join to both outreach and knowledge

Planned achievements	KPIs	Due Date

Facts

This is the first year of the GÉANT NRENs and education activity.

First year: September 2018 - September 2019

The charter of the expert group needs to be defined, endorsed and approved by the GCC.

The is jointly led by its Steering Committee

Gyöngyi Horváth, GÉANT (Activity lead)
Esther Wilkinson, Jisc
Sarah Davis, Jisc
Jasmijn Wijn, SURFnet
Vegard Moen, UNIT

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