Date: 04 March 2025

Location: PSNC 

  1. ul. Jana Pawła II 10 , 61-139 Poznan, Poland

       How to get there 


Aim:
• To reflect on the journey travelled (10 years of the EaPConnect project) – how the project activities and achievements created a foundation and springboard for the future.
• To acknowledge the contributions and role of the EaP NRENs and project stakeholders in the transformation of the EaP NRENs and their eco-system.
• To bring together the collective thinking on factors for success as well as challenges (and ways to meet them) to continue forward movement.


The event concept is based on the metaphor of the ship launching ceremony whereby there is a public celebration of successful joint efforts to build a ship (part 1) which now is ready to chart its own course (part 2).


AGENDA 


Time TitlePresenter
10:00 - 10:30Morning coffee
10:30 - 13:30 Part 1 “EaP NRENs – road travelled”
10:30 -10:35Welcome and plan for the dayIrina Matthews, GEANT
10:35 - 10:40Video “EaPConnect milestones and achievements”Eric Huizer, GEANT
10:40 - 10:50EaPConnect in the GEANT landscape
10:50 – 11:00DG NEAR: EaPConnect implementation of the EC landscape
11:00 - 11:05Travelling down the timeline IntroductionIrina Matthews, GEANT
11:05 - 11:35Connectivity implementation
Zooming in:
• First connectivity circuits – 
• Shaping the strategy: Network Architecture workshop, Kyiv 2019 
• Integral part of the GEANT network – future opportunities for the region and GEANT members

Istvan Tetenyi, GEANT

Veronika  Di Luna, GEANT

Sebastiano Buscaglione, GEANT

11:35 - 12:05Services portfolio implementation
Overview: Service portfolio at present 
Zooming in:
• eduroam in Ukraine
• Cloud services in Georgia
• AI, HPC in Armenia
• eHealth/Digitisation of national heritage in Moldova
• LoLa (Connecting cultures) in Azerbaijan

Irina Matthews, GEANT

Yevhenii Preobrazhenskyi, URAN

Ramaz Kvatadze, GRENA

Hrachya Astsatryan, ASNET-AM

Peter Bogatencov, RENAM

Babak Nabiyev, AzScienceNet

12:05 - 12:40Capability building
Overview – Irina 
Zooming in:
EU Partnerships:
• DFN 
• GARR 
• PSNC 
Marcomms - “what is in the word?”

Irina Matthews, GEANT

Leonie Schaefer, DFN

Claudio Allocchio, GARR

Raimundas Tuminauskas, PSNC


Laura Durnford

Naira Kocharian, ASNET - AM

Rosanna Normann, GEANT

12:40 - 12:50Building human network timeline (events)
Overview 		Irina Matthews, GEANT
12:50 - 13:30EaP NRENs and GEANT and GEANT community
Overview
“GEANT Community: for NRENs and by NRENs” (10 min)–
URAN and GEANT community - video

Irina Matthews, GEANT

Dawn Ng, GEANT

13:30 - 15:00Lunch (45 min), quick tour of PSNC (30 Min), group photo (10 min)
15:00 - 16:25

Part II  “EaP NRENs - towards new frontiers”

Open Forum

EaP NRENs (10 min each) – setting the scene
1. 10 years of the EaPConnect project – what has changed for your NREN? Where do you see the biggest impact for national R&E institutions (please give an example)
2. What has been your experience of international collaborations over the past 10 years? (Please give examples of
international collaborations/projects)
3. What factors enable continued integration with the European research?
What factors present challenges/barriers?
Input and comments from all attendees on the subject of NRENs’ in navigating the challenges of sustainable engagement with the
European research.


16:25 – 16:30Big round of Thanks for the past 10 years and look forward to continued journey together




Social programme
16:30Walking tour of the Old City, Poznan
19:00Dinner at “Brovaria”



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