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GÉANT – how can you benefit and participate?

GÉANT information day, Skopje

Annabel Grant, GÉANT, June 6th 2018

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Topics for today….

GÉANT project • how the funding works • the framework partnership agreement & the project• what skills we need• how you can participate

Other e-infrastructure initiatives• what they are• how you can get involved

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How the funding works….

NREN (MARNET)

EC

NRENs (as project participants)

GEANT

SUPPLIERS

National Governments/Users

GN4-2

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We have to December until end of GN4-2

+

Then 4 years of the next project (GN4-3)

to achieve all our FPA objectives

GN4-1

GN4-2

GN4-3

Today

GÉANT2020 Framework Partnership Agreement (7yrs)

Action A

Drive the Evolution of

the Network

Action B

Support the Knowledge Community

Action C

Provide Security, Trust and Identity

Action D

Deliver GÉANT’s

Collaborative Ecosystem

Action E

Develop the Human Capital of

the GÉANT Partnership

Action F

Ensuring the Long-Term

Future of the GÉANT

Infrastructure

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Project overview: The GN4-2 project in numbers

40 Partners, 42 Countries171 FTEs (average per year over project duration)660+ registered contributorsDuration 32 months (May 2016 – Dec 2018)

10 Activities - 45 Tasks105 Deliverables in GN4-2 51 Milestones in GN4-2

Total direct costs: €96M (inc 25% o/h allowance)Total EC funding :€59M

Network co-funded at 50%, Manpower at 80%

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GN4-2 Activity structure: Joint Research Activities (JRAs), Service Activities (SAs) and Networking Activities (NAs)

GN4-2 Development Joint Research Activities

JRA1 Network Infrastructure Evolution

JRA2 Network Services Development

JRA3 Trust and Identity Development

GN4-2 Production Service Activities

SA1 Network Infrastructure and Services Operations

GN4-2 Networking Activities

NA1 Project Management NA2 Communications and Outreach NA3 Partner, User and Stakeholder Relations

JRA4 Application Services Delivery Development

SA2 Trust & Identity and Multi-Domain Services

SA3 Network and Services Assurance

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Network Innovation

• Full-scale softwarisation of service delivery APIs to invoke resources

• Disaggregated network – a new control, management and application plane software stack

• Driving market/industry hardware and software developments

• Looking at where to put our fibre footprint

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Network operational excellence + planning for the future

• Vision and strategy for next generation of the GÉANT network

• Common software architecture

• Evolution work

• Network performance benchmarking

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Network operations

• GÉANT Operations Centre

• Service Requests

• First-Level Support

• Procurement of circuits

GÉANT Operations Centre (GOC) Supporting network and service delivery around the clock

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Network services Innovation

• Service Provider Architecture (SPA)

provides a common information architecture

• GÉANT Testbeds Service (GTS) now open to users

• automating domain network management

• developing Firewall on Demand (FoD)

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Trust & Identity Service development

• eduroam and eduGAIN growth

oScaling policy, technology and support

• Designing and piloting more complex services:

o InAcademia, eduTEAMS, eduroam Managed IdP, Campus IdP, StepUp Assurance & MFA, Discovery

• Future-proofing the platforms:

oGDPR, OIDC, eduKEEP – user-centric ID, let’s RadSec

• Underpinned by constant community, cross-project and user engagement

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Services Operational excellence

• T&I and Application operations – eduroam, eduGAIN

• Transition and quality assurance services

• Enhancing quality of software development through training and software management support

• DevOps, maintenance and support for production services

• Professional level of production operations supported through defined baseline, policies and main processes

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Cloud Services: Pan European tender for Infrastructure as a Service……GÉANT brings down cost of cloud services

36 participating countries

R&E institutions act as a Single Digital Market

12 different IaaS solutions (providers)

20 suppliers, incl. Amazon & Microsoft resellers

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Project management – running a large and complex project

• Ensures high-quality milestones and deliverables

• Provides training events, GÉANT eAcademy and Human Capital Development

• Communicates strategic interactions to other world regions

• Provides information on global R&E networking activities

Young talent is our future

NRENs supporting the programme have

nominated passionate students from their

member audience to give an inspiring

lightning talk at TNC18, 10-14 June 2018,

in Trondheim, Norway

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Marketing, communications & events

• Demonstrating the value & impact of GÉANT and the NRENs

• Articles highlighting GÉANT network, services, innovation and partners in CONNECT, download & read the last issue

• Successful new event: Digital infrastructures for Research 2018

• Join us at TNC18

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Outreach – supporting our Users

• Increased e-infrastructures liaison with stronger links and formal collaborations

• Supporting international users

• Compendium

• Get involved in….

o GÉANT Task Forces (TF)

o Special Interest Group (SIGs)

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The human resources challenge…significant fluctuations in team members(!)

• Team members, Task and Activity Leaders leaving their organisations

• External demand for skilled staff, leading to staff shortages, particularly in new technology areas

• Time needed to find adequate replacements

• Challenge finding software development skills

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Current skills shortages….

• OSS/BSS analysts/engineers: experience in modelling and implementing business and operations workflows, integration with commercial OSS/BSS systems

• Python developers with network technologies knowledge

• Devops engineers

• System admins

• Product managers

• Assistant project manager (meetings' organization, minute taking, production and maintenance of plans, document management, handling NDAs etc.)

• Business development resources with technical background, sitting in technical meetings with advanced users and e-Infrastructures explaining network technologies and devising solutions

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Current vacancies….

Software Developer, InAcademia

• GÉANT is looking for a software developer to join the team to help maintain the codebase from pilot into production

Security handling in eduGAIN support

• The overall responsibility of the role is to understand and resolve ongoing security incidents that require central coordination by eduGAIN

User-Oriented VPN Service Architect

• Work as the user oriented VPN-service architect

Java Developer

• We are seeking talented Java developers, interested to work on transformation projects combining next-generation OSS/BSS solutions and advanced service delivery.

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The next project needs more resources – please let MARNET know if you have such skills available

• We are preparing the next project (GN4-3)

• To be submitted in November 2018

• GN4-3 starts 1 January 2019

• Project duration 4 years

• We will need similar skills

• MARNET & its third parties should have a bigger presence

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The next project…..overview

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How can you participate?

• As a third party to MARNET!

• What is a third party? A legal entity which carries out work of the action, supplies goods or provide services for the action, but which did not sign the grant agreement

• There are many types of third parties! In our case it is about third parties providing resources, goods or services to the beneficiaries against payment for them to carry out the work described in Annex 1, E.g.: seconded staff, use of equipment

• If you have such resources available please notify MARNET

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How can you participate in other e-infrastructure initiatives?

• European Open Science Cloud (EOSC hub project)

• OpenAIRE / Open Science

• Research Data Alliance

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EOSC Hub:

100 partners creating a federated integration and management system for EOSC

• Data• Applications & tools• Baseline services

(storage, compute, connectivity)

• Training, consultants

• Marketplace• AAI• Accounting• Monitoring

Usage according toRules of

Participation

From consortium

AND external contributors

• Lightweight certification of providers

• SLA negotiation• Customer Relationship

Management

• Security regulations,• Compliance to standards,• Terms of use,• FAIR implementation

guidelines

Getting involved……

How can MARNET’s community benefit from EOSC hub project?

Researchers are invited to use the services that will be available through the web site initially and then the marketplace. Users are offered sponsored access (free at point of use).

How can existing infrastructure in FYROM be brought into EOSC hub or EOSC in the future?

The Hub is open to production-level services and resources like data, from Macedonian infrastructure providers. Their national contacts are MARGI (Macedonian Academic Research Grid Initiative) - a partner in the project. Interested providers should contact the project directly contact@mailman.eosc-hub.eu

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VisionResearchers and innovators openly share data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

MissionRDA builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.

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How to get involved….

Join the Research Data Alliance (becoming a WG/IG member)

https://www.rd-alliance.org/get-involved/individual-membership.html

Apply to become a new RDA Europe node (http://europe.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/rda-europe-call-new-

nodes) or get in touch with the RDA Node in your country/region to collaborate on data sharing and Research Data Management challenges (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/national-groups )

Look out for RDA Europe grants for Early Career Researchers, Experts, Ambassadors and RDA Output-Adoption (They will open soon!)

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Support RDA by becoming an organisational memberhttps://www.rd-alliance.org/get-involved/organisational-membership

Join the upcoming RDA Twelfth Plenary Meeting - part of the International Data Week 2018, Gaborone, Botswana

https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-twelfth-plenary-meeting-part-international-data-week-2018-gaborone-botswana

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Thank you and we really look forward to working with you!

Thank you

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Any questions?

© GÉANT Association on behalf of the GN4 Phase 2 project (GN4-2).

The research leading to these results has received funding from

the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

under Grant Agreement No. 731122 (GN4-2).