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For the 2023 GÉANT Women in STEM campaign we interviewed the physicist Dr Elena Hajdeu-Chicarosh from Moldova who, in November 2022, was awarded the Diploma of Gratitude and Appreciation by the Government of the Republic of Moldova for her activities in the field of research and innovation. How did you…

On March 30, 2023 the Inaugural Event of the National Open Science Cloud Initiative in the Republic of Moldova (MD-NOSCI) will take place. The event is organized by the Moldova State University, the National Agency for Research and Development and the Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova (RENAM), with…

With this call, the EGI-ACE project offers access to infrastructure and platform services, dedicated user support and training. The services are sponsored by the European Commission and various national funding agencies and are free to access to the selected use cases. EGI-ACE (Advanced Computing for EOSC) is a 30-month project…

On December 8, 2022 the representatives of RENAM, the national research and education network of Moldova, Peter Bogatencov, Anatol Goncearuc and Sergiu Gaugas, were on a working visit in Iasi at the office of the Administration Agency of the National Informatics Network for Education and Research (AARNIEC). AARNIEC administers and…

The GÉANT Innovation Programme is a unique opportunity to enable initial development, establish a proof of concept or testing of new ideas, with lightweight, administrative constraints. Its new open call was launched on December 5, 2022, looking for specific research projects of up to EUR30k, for a max duration of 5/6…

On November 4, 2022 the meeting of RENAM Scientific and Technical Council took place in the premises of the Moldova State University, where ICT services available through the GÉANT-RENAM e-infrastructure for the research and education community in the Republic of Moldova were presented. This meeting was attended by 22 representatives…

For Cybersecurity Month 2022 campaign ‘A Community of Cyber Heroes’, Ecaterina Matenco, Cybersecurity Officer at RENAM, analyses the main incidents recorded this year by the MD-CERT and shares basic rules for protecting users. In the last year, RENAM, the national research and education network of Moldova, detected a large number…

On October 11, 2022, during the workshop “Digitalization – an engine for accelerating the development and economic growth of the Republic of Moldova: presentations, free discussions and exchange of opinions” RENAM specialists Alexandru Cacean, Valentin Pocotilenco and Nicolai Iliuha presented RENAM services as a support for digitization in the field…

A connectivity upgrade between RENAM, the National Research & Education Network in Moldova and GÉANT, was recently carried out at the GÉANT network PoP (Point of Presence) in Chisinau. The upgrade doubled RENAM’s network capacity from 2×10 Gbps to 2×20 Gbps and has been possible due to EU funding received…

The EC-funded OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) project has a remaining budget of approximately €6.5 million (including VAT), intended to be distributed across both Cloud and Earth Observation services. The OCRE project will procure services on behalf of awarded research projects in accordance with the rules governed by its…