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GA 21, Rhodos 1Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>

The future evolution of

TERENA and its collaboration with

DANTE and the NREN PC

Dorte Olesen


What does TERENA bring to its members?

• Providing technical/administrative support to task-forces and similar groups in technical areas of common interest to the membership

• Providing project-officer support to technical projects

• Organising workshops on (new) topical technical subjects of common interest to the membership



• Providing an environment for fostering new initiatives of the European research networking community

• Organising the annual TERENA networking conference

• Organising an annual seminar for the TERENA General Assembly

• Providing support in various ways to less advanced networking organisations



• Providing (technical and managerial) advice and assistance to TERENA member organisations, and promote knowledge transfer

• Promoting members’ interests by representing the common interests and opinions of the membership in contacts with relevant organisations

• Providing support to the TERENA GA, TEC, TAC and TTC



• Providing a TERENA website with up-to-date information

• Offering meeting facilities in the TERENA offices to members.


Can TERENA do more?

• Publish a short monthly executive newsletter to the GA?

• Organise practical, small projects of immediate benefit to members (such as those of TF-PR and the TACAR initiative)?

• What would YOU like your organisation to do for you?


Collaboration with DANTE

• A working group consisting of members from the TEC and the DANTE BoD started work in February 2003.

• Two meetings have taken place, but the work has not yet been completed – due mainly to the workload in connection with preparation of the GN2 proposal


Collaboration with DANTE

• Overall impression: the collaboration is good and in many respects it is quite clear who takes care of what.

• Still, the study should be finished, in order to get a clear overview of the division of tasks, also outside the GN2 project.


Membership of the NREN Consortium

• GN2 is a broader project than GN1

• The EC has a strong wish that the European network should be seen as an entity, encompassing both the international backbone and the national networks


Membership of the NREN Consortium

• Research, development and foresight studies are now also part of GN2, not independent projects

• TERENA will coordinate a series of activities. DANTE is overall coordinator of the project

• There is an impressive overlap between the members in the NREN PC and the members of the TERENA GA


Conclusions and recommendations

• The DANTE-TERENA collaboration study should be finished in September – so conclusions can be discussed at the October GA

• TERENA should start a monthly ”executive” newsletter immediately


Conclusions and recommendations

• The GA should consider formulating some ”challenges” for NRENs and the joint European networks

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