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Dates: 14-15 October 2025

Format: 1,5 days


Location:

CSUC

Annexus building

C/ Gran Capità, no number

08034 Barcelona


The Annexus building is the basement of A1, but the access is from the Gran Capità street, not from the ground level at A1). Take the metro or the tram, stop at Zona Universitària and it's less than a 10 min walk. The path is totally accessible, including the metro station (there are elevators to the platforms and the street) and the A1 building (street level).


Take the ramps from GRan Capità street. This is the entrance of the building and what you will see from the Gran Capità street once you pass the Nexus I building (the round glass one):

Accommodation

CSUC is not in the city centre, but in Zona Universitària, where many faculties and schools are. Below you can find affordable hotels and residences in the vicinity of CSUC offices. There are also many other hotels in the city. So, if you prefer to stay in the city centre, you can still reach the office with public transportation quite easily. You can use the CSUCAH discount code with Atiram Hotels (8% discount).

This is a list of possible hotels and residences for your stay, sorted by the time you will spend to reach CSUC:

Hotel
Distance to CSUCDiscount code
Hotel Madanis Liceo15 min by bus (26 min walk) 
Abba Garden16 min walk
Arenas Atiram18 min walkCSUCAH
Hotel Derby20 min by tram 
Catalonia Castellnou21 min by bus (27 min walk) 
Expo Hotel Barcelona23 min by metro 
Catalonia Barcelona 50524 min by bus 
H10 Itaca24 min by metro 
Tres Torres Atiram26 min by bus (34 min walk)CSUCAH
Catalonia Park Putxet29 min by bus 
Oriente Atiram28 min by metroCSUCAH
Meson Castilla Atiram32 min by metroCSUCAH
ResidencesDistance to CSUC 
Barcelona Diagonal19 min walk (18 min by bus) 
Other student residencesIt depends on the residence


Getting to Barcelona from the airport Barcelona El Prat Josep Tarradellas

We recommend you fly to Barcelona El Prat Josep Tarradellas airport (BCN). Some applications show the airports of Reus and Girona as if they were Barcelona. They are not. They are far away and you can only reach Barcelona by bus from there. So, please, fly to BCN. There are two terminals: T1 and T2. If you need to take a bus, train or metro in the other terminal, there is a free shuttle bus between the two terminals every 5 minutes. Then, from the airport to the city, you can choose:

  • Aerobus is a direct bus from the airport (T1/T2) to the city centre (aerobus). It cost 7,45 € per trip (12.85 € if you buy the return ticket).
  • You can take bus number 46 from the airport (T1/T2) to Plaça Espanya. It costs 2,65 € per trip and you can buy a single ticket inside the bus (or 1,25 € if you buy a T-casual first). Please, be aware you can not buy a T-casual inside the bus, but you can buy at the metro station and then go to the bus if you want. Also, take into account you can pay in TMB buses directly with your bank card and no physical ticket will be needed in this case.
  • Metro line 9 stops directly in Zona Universitària (where CSUC is). You need to pay a special fee to travel from the airport (Airport ticket). It costs 5,70 €.
  • There is a train from the airport to Sants Estació and Passeig de Gràcia (only from T2). It costs 5.05 €.
  • More information about public transportation from/to the airport here: https://www.ambmobilitat.cat/Principales/Aeropuerto.aspx
  • You can take a taxi (there are well-signalled taxi stations there). Expect around 34/40 € from the airport to the city centre.
  • Uber, Cabify, Mytaxi and other apps work quite well in Barcelona.

The most efficient way to travel with public transportation in Barcelona is to buy a T-Casual card in any metro machine for 12.55 € (+0,50 € carton rechargeable card), which includes 10 trips with the right to exchange between buses (except Aerobus), metro (except from/to the airport), train Zone 1 and tram during 75 minutes. If you are going to use more than 6 single tickets, is worth buying a T-casual.  You can find all the possible tickets here: https://www.tmb.cat/en/barcelona-fares-metro-bus/. You will read you can only use the T-casual with the T-mobilitat and that you need to register, but the truth is that you can buy a carton rechargeable card per 0,50 €. You can also buy an "Hola Barcelona" card for 2 to 5 days, that includes Aureobus.

For single tickets (2,65 €): You can pay in TMB buses (reb buses, most of them) directly with your bank card and no physical ticket will be needed in this case. When you get on the bus through the first door, you will find a reader in front of the cab. It is the contactless bank card reader that allows you to buy and validate the single bus ticket in a single step, just by approaching the card. In some metro accesses, there is also a special validation machine that allows you to buy and validate a single ticket with a bank card. If this is not the case, you can use the machines to buy your ticket.

Practicalities

  • The currency is the Euro (€).
  • You can pay with credit card almost everywhere, including taxis.
  • Power plugs are Type F ( CEE 7/4 and CEE 7/7 standards).  The standard voltage is 230 V at a frequency of 50 Hz.
  • Passport needed for countries out of Schengen area.
  • We do not recommend to fly to Reus or Girona, as these two airports are far away from Barcelona.
  • There is roaming available from most EC countries.

Remote attendance

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(both on-site and online participation is possible)


For any questions, please email nadelina.sandu@geant.org

AGENDA (Times in CEST)

14th of October

TBC EU alternatives to commercial tools, TBCTBC
  • The Iberian power outage from the point of view of the Network, Maria Isabel Gandia, CSUC
  • 30Clixon, TBC, Nordunet (self-paid)

    09:45 - 10:00

    Arrival 

    10:00 - 10:15

    Welcome 

     

    Session
    1 - Network Operations
    10:15 - 10:45The EuroHPC Network from the operations point of view, Keith Slater, GÉANT
    10:45 -11:15

    Maat, Tomasz Szewczyk, PCSS

    Maat is a Source of Truth application that ensures efficient management of infrastructure information in network service orchestration and automation systems. The approach used allows for easy definition of advanced resources and services and the creation of relationships between them. The application offers secure REST API, a nice UI, authentication and authorization features using the well-known open-source Identity and Access Management software Keycloak.

    Developed under the GN5-2 project and released under the open Apache v2 license, Maat has already proven its value in production within the Polish PIONIER network, where its adaptability and ease of modelling resources and services have earned the trust of network engineers.

    11:15 - 11:45Coffee break
     Session 2 - Communication Tools and Resilience
    11:45 - 12:00

    Flash talk

    • The Iberian power outage from the point of view of the Network, Maria Isabel Gandia, CSUC
      This talk will summarize the incidents, points of view, success and horror stories that the massive power outage in the Iberian Peninsula brought in April at Anella Científica, the regional research and education network in Catalonia..
    12:00 - 13:00

    Discussion:

    How do we communicate in case of Crisis, do we only rely US Cloud tools or do we have a European alternative?, Jonny Lundin, SUNET

    13:00 - 14:00 

    Lunch

     Session 3 - Configuration Management and the NOC
    14:00 - 14:30

    Argus, TBC, Sikt

    14:30 - 15:00

    Flash talks

    • ASNET-AM NOC Flash Talk, TBC
    • Netbox developments in CESNET,  Ladislav Loub, CESNET
    15:00 - 15:30

    Coffee break

     Session 4 - Network Visualization and Data Sharing
    15:30 - 16:

    Discussion, TBC

    16:30 - 17:00
    15

    Flash talks

    • Flow data sharing with MetrANOVA, Ivana Golub PCSS
      MetrANOVA develops and shares open architectures, technical components, design patterns, best practices, and policy recommendations to create effective network measurement systems, looking at flow data visualisation and sharing. The talk will also touch on policy aspects of flow data sharing.
    • GREN Map, Gustavo Araujo, RNP
      The idea of sharing research and education networks data in order to create a global map and see their network topology has been around for years. What prerequisites, pros and cons are there around the idea.
    • perfSONAR on-demand measurements UI, Ljubomir Hrboka, CARNET
      perfSONAR is the performance Service-Oriented Network monitoring ARchitecture, a network measurement toolkit designed to provide federated coverage of paths and help to establish end-to-end usage expectations. Recently renewed UI for on-demand measurements will be presented and demoed.
    16:15 - 17:00

    Discussion: How many data would you like to see and share?, Ivana Golub, PCSS

    Research and education institutions participate in many multidomain project that require a resilient end-to-end network. But, what happens when there is a problem and we can not see the whole path? Are we willing to share our data? And, if so, up to how many data would we share? Following the example from Metranova, we will see the possibilities we have, examples, etc.

     

    End of Day 1

    17:30

    Social activity: Cosmocaixa

    20:00

    Group dinner

    15th of October

    3Network Automation Forum Overview, WorkFlow Orchestrator , Mick O'Donovan, HEANETAI module for Worflow Orchestrator, TBCSIG-ISMSocial activity
    09:00 - 09:15
    Welcomes

    Session
    5 - Network Automation and Orchestration, and Flow Monitoring

    9:15 - 9:45

    TBC
    9:45 - 10:15

    Discussion

    : Flow Monitoring Tools, What do we use?, Joze Hank, ARNES

    Following the discussions in the mailing list, this open debate will focus on the tools we use to visualise raw flows from the network. From open-source to commercial tools, there are dozens of tools out there. What are they pros and they cons? What are we missing?

    10:15 - 10:45
    WorkFlow Orchestrator Discussion, Mick O'Donovan, HEANET
    10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
     Session 6 - More AI for Network Operations
    11:15 - 11:45Reimagining Network Operations: Unified IP-Optical Automation with AIOps, TBC, Nokia
    11:45 - 12:15

    Flash talks

    • AI within the Security domain, Mick O'Donovan, HEANET
    • TBC
    • TBC
    12:15 - 13:00 Meeting Evaluation and future topics, volunteers for next host
    13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 - 15:00Session 4