Aim of the Workshop

The workshop aims to present the latest developments and best practices in campus and NREN-related technologies for the research community of Balcan countries & to contribute to the development of short-term service strategy for BREN.

Programme

The broad workshop programme has been developed in order to reflect the latest trends in campus and NRENs services development. Dedicated workshop sessions will cover the following topics:

• GEANT services – eduGain and eduroam as the enablers for wide access to research resources and “stay online” solution.
• Best practices in physical infrastructure for WiFi access in campus networks
• Best practices in users account management and authentication
  • University of Strasbourg solution
  • SUNET's edu-ID as the successful solution for centralized electronic identification of research users in Sweden
  • A case study of edu-ID – access to scientific libraries in Sweden
• The latest developments in video services
  • This whole session organized by NORDUNET specialists will cover the history, present and future video services deployed in Nordic countries. Presentations will address all important issues including: organizational spects, financial model and cost effectiveness, interoperability with legacy systems. Topics like H.323, Skype for Business, AdobeConnect will be discussed and WebRTC solutions as the next gen service will be covered in detail
• Cyber security
  • This session will feature several tasks, from re-iteration of basic security principles, through the tutorial on protecting campus valuable assets to detailed cloud-security discussion. Final talk in this session will present the strategy for cyber-security in Bulgaria.
• CERT services
  • One of the sessions will be fully dedicated to CERT services in several countries of the region. The session is intended as the platform for exchange of experiences in organization and operations of CERTs in countries of the region.
• Round table on BREN’s short term service strategy
  • A round table on service strategy for Bulgarian research community will close the event. The experts and the stakeholders will discuss draft plan of service implementation strategy for Bulgaria and provide the recommendations for the future activities.

Agenda

workshop agenda

Audience

The workshop is planned for up to 60 participants; NREN personnel, technical engineers and decision makers Workshop admittance is at “first come first served” basis. GN4 partners may apply for travel funding to their activity leaders. 

How to get to the venue

Plovdiv is about 2 hours from Sofia airport and there are several ways to get to Plovdiv by car, train or bus. However, the organisers will arrange group airport shuttles  to the venue for workshop participants only. To organise this in the most efficient way we need to know your travel dates. Please send your travel dates to nadia.sluer@geant.org as soon after you have booked your flights - if you like us to arrange your transfer from the airport to the venue-. 

Accommodation

The recommended accommodation is the conference hotel Sankt Petersburg. The hotel rooms of the Sankt Petersburg hotel are spacious and comfortable. The organisers blocked rooms/studios for workshop participants at the special price of 60 EUR per person per night. If you would like to stay here and would like our assistance to make your reservation let us know upon your registration. Note that registration closes at 22 October.  

Social Event

The organisers welcome all workshop participants to an entertained dinner on 26th and 27th October.

Dinner on Monday 26th will take place at the conference hotel and is sponsored by BREN.  Dinner on the 27th will be offered at a restaurant in town and entertained by traditional folk music and dances, sponsored by ECI Tele & BREN.  

Lunches, tea and coffee

The program includes lunches to be served at 26, 27 and 28 October and coffee/ tea during the coffee breaks.

Organised by GN4 Campus Best Practices, Bulgarian Research and Education Network (BREN) and Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski".