Location: TNC25, Brighton, United Kingdom
Title: Strategic insights, cutting-edge trends, and practical wisdom in educational delivery, both in our national spheres and on the global stage
The GÉANT Task Force for Educational Activities (TF-EDU) would like to invite you to a pre-TNC25 Conference workshop focussing on both strategic opportunities and challenges, and sharing knowledge and best practice on practical issues related to the delivery of education, both nationally and globally.
Our annual event for 2025 will be hosted by TF-EDU Steering Committee members, using their experience, individually and collectively, and the knowledge gained from our community sessions over the past years. Our annual events attract a global audience, from NRENs, educational institutions, international organisations, governments and commercial companies.
During the workshop we will have an interactive look at standardisation across educational ecosystems and explore interoperability and what our community is doing in this field to support this goal. It will be followed by a discussion on how we could be taking an active role. The second part of the meeting will be focusing on the wallets development and we will hear from the experience of the Digital Credentials for Europe (DC4EU) project, the GEANT project wallets working group and see a demonstration on eduWallets.
We will endeavour to set out the context for these discussions at the outset with an overview of the most recent results from our third ‘Annual Survey on Educational Services and Activities’, looking also at any trends from the earlier surveys and possible early impact of the pandemic, brought to you by Gyongyi Horvath (GEANT).
The workshop will help TF-EDU develop a forward-looking roadmap to better understand the changes as a community, and for the education sector as a whole.
If you have some technical issues or other concerns, please send your submission to tf-edu-sc@lists.geant.org
Agenda
Monday, 9 June 2025
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13:45 - 14:00 (15’) | Arrival to the meeting Preparation, come and meet the organisers over a cup of coffee and test your audio and video | |||
14:00 - 14:10 (‘10) | Welcome and general introduction to TF-EDU Hosts: Erik Kikkenborg (NORDUnet) Introduce the GÉANT Task Force for Education, including how participants can help shape and inform future TF-EDU discussions during this workshop and beyond. | |||
14:10 - 14:20 (‘10) | NRENs for education - The landscape Gyongyi Horvath (GEANT) Gyongyi will present our annual NREN educational services and activities survey results. | |||
14:20 - 15:30 ('70) | What can we do for an interoperable educational ecosystem? - deep dive session Evelien Reenders (SURF) This session should provide insights on the activities and developments that are already happening to ensure that NRENs are supporting the move towards an interoperable educational ecosystem. We intend to discuss after short presentations on how the community and the experts in the fields view the need of our active role, what are the benefits and what are the challenges? Participants will identify the most pressing use cases for their communities and where NRENs can/should play a stronger role.
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| 15:30-16:00 ('30) | BREAK | |||
16:00 - 16:30 ('60) | Wallets for education - session and demonstration In this session the latest developments are going to be presented related to the wallets development from the DC4EU project, WwwWallet perspective, eduWallets and the GEANT Project. Stefan Liström (SUNET) Peter Leijnse (SURF) | |||
17:00 - 17:25 ('25) | Workshop reflection & conclusions Round-up of the day: key points, participant action plans and next steps for TF-EDU Vegard Moen (Sikt) | |||
| 17:25-17:30 ('5) | Event wrap up Host: Erik Kikkenborg (NORDUnet) and Gyongyi Horvath (GEANT) Final conclusions after the meeting and invitation for the autumn TF-EDU meetings:
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