Registration is Open

Aim of the Workshop

The workshop aims to present the latest developments and best practices in campus and NREN-related technologies for the research community of Balcan countries & to contribute to the development of short-term service strategy for BREN.

Programme

The broad workshop programme has been developed in order to reflect the latest trends in campus and NRENs services development. Dedicated workshop sessions will cover the following topics:

• GEANT services – eduGain and eduroam as the enablers for wide access to research resources and “stay online” solution.
• Best practices in physical infrastructure for WiFi access in campus networks
• Best practices in users account management and authentication
  • University of Strasbourg solution
  • UNINETT’s edu-ID as the successful solution for centralized electronic identification of research users in Sweden
  • A case study of edu-ID – access to scientific libraries in Sweden
• The latest developments in video services
  • This whole session organized by NORDUNET specialists will cover the history, present and future video services deployed in Nordic countries. Presentations will address all important issues including: organizational spects, financial model and cost effectiveness, interoperability with legacy systems. Topics like H.323, Skype for Business, AdobeConnect will be discussed and WebRTC solutions as the next gen service will be covered in detail
• Cyber security
  • This session will feature several tasks, from re-iteration of basic security principles, through the tutorial on protecting campus valuable assets to detailed cloud-security discussion. Final talk in this session will present the strategy for cyber-security in Bulgaria.
• CERT services
  • One of the sessions will be fully dedicated to CERT services in several countries of the region. The session is intended as the platform for exchange of experiences in organization and operations of CERTs in countries of the region.
• Round table on BREN’s short term service strategy
  • A round table on service strategy for Bulgarian research community will close the event. The experts and the stakeholders will discuss draft plan of service implementation strategy for Bulgaria and provide the recommendations for the future activities.

Audience

The workshop is planned for up to 100 participants. Workshop admittance is at “first come first served” basis.Since this is G4 event, GN4 partners may apply for travel funding to their activity leaders. 

Venue

Hotel Sankt Petersburg, Plovdiv (venue + conference hotel)

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How to get to the venue

Since Plovdiv is away from Sofia, there will be shuttles from the  airport. To organise transfer from the airport to the hotel in the most efficient way we need to know your travel dates. Please send your travel dates to nadia.sluer@geant.org as soon after you have booked your flights. 

Accommodation

The workshops will be held at the very convenient Hotel Sankt Petersburg in Plovdiv.  The hotel has blocked rooms/studios for our workshop participants at the price of 60 EUR per person. If you would like our assistance to make our reservation at the Hotel Sankt Petersburg,  make sure to register to the workshop and complete the information on the registration page. Registration closes at 22 October.  

Meals and beverage

The program includes lunches to be served at 26, 27 and 28 October and coffee/ tea during the coffee breaks.

Social Event

Organised by GN4 Campus Best Practices, Bulgarian Research and Education Network (BREN) and Plovdiv University
Contact: Michalprzy@ <gmail michalprzy@gmail.com>

Register

 is open until 22 October or until the workshop is full.