GEANT Association
GÉANT Association is the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). GÉANT and our NREN partners are vital to research and education. Together we deliver the infrastructures and services that enable scientific discoveries and knowledge sharing needed to address society’s biggest challenges. Our user communities include particle physics, radio astronomers, climate modelling, medicine, and many more. The world's biggest research projects rely on us.
We are a not-for-profit organisation with offices in Cambridge and Amsterdam. Our people number approximately 130 representing over 30 countries and cultures.
Every day we embrace our values of trust, innovation, passion, and community.
The GÉANT Association:
- provides practical support for members, educators, researchers and other partners to collaborate, innovate, share knowledge and agree on policies and strategies;
- plans, procures, builds and operates large-scale, advanced international high-speed networks, including the 500 Gbps pan-European GÉANT network;
- organises events such as workshops, meetings and conferences, including TNC – Europe’s largest networking conference for research and education;
- develops, operates and supports services relating to such areas as trust and identity, security and certification, mobility and access, and media and real-time communications;
- provides staff expertise in procurement, project management, community engagement, network operations, and outreach including dissemination and training;
- liaises with other e-infrastructure organisations, user communities, industry and with the European Union.
