Thematic Areas

Thematic areas are formed and continuously evolve from the needs of the GÉANT community.

Learn more about the different thematic areas and their activities to find out which community activity suits you best.

Security

Security

This is a broad area, concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems. GÉANT's activities include defining and implementing appropriate security requirements for various types of systems. One requirement common to many systems is incident response: detecting and investigating failures and restoring the system to its intended security state.

SIG-ISM
Information Security Management - Developing security expertise and excellence within the NREN community​. See more

TRANSITS
State of the art, high-quality training for Computer Security and Incident Response Teams (CSIRT)
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Trust & Identity

Trust & Identity

Trust & Identity focuses on identity management federations, harmonisation and standardisation of interfaces, access control, service location and diagnostics, and involve liaison with other communities when relevant, simplifying access to content, services and resources for the global research and education community.
Trust & Identity services enable mobility and facilitate sharing of information in a responsible manner.

Research and Education FEDerations
The mission of REFEDS is to be the voice that articulates the mutual needs of research and education identity federations worldwide. The group represents the requirements of research and education. See more

Network

Network

This area is concerned with organisational aspects, coordination and exchange of best practice regarding the provisioning and delivering of network services. Work in this area supports research on network technology and innovative network services. Campus networking is included in this area.

SIG-NGN
Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks
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SIG-NOC
Special Interest Group on Network Operations Centres
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SIG-TFN
Special Interest Group on Time & Frequency Network
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Cloud

Cloud

The Cloud area of the GÈANT Community Programme deals with Interoperable software stacks, aimed at providing cloud services based on open standards and protocols, and focuses on supporting the uptake of Cloud technologies. Both private and public clouds are of interest within this domain, with the focus on building, operating, and monitoring cloud infrastructure in a hybrid cloud approach to the provisioning of services for the NRENs and their constituent institutions.

SIG-CISS
Special Interest Group on Cloud Interoperable Software Stacks
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Open Cloud Mesh
Interconnected Private Clouds for Universities and Researchers.
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Business practices

Business practices

Within this area the focus is on organisational, information gathering/exchange and delivery aspects of services provided to the community and by the community.

SIG-MSP
Special interest Group on Management of Service Portfolios. See more

SIG-AI
Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence. See more

SIG-Procurement
Special Interest Group on Procurement
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SIG-Sustainability
Special Interest Group on Sustainability
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Stakeholder engagement

Stakeholder engagement

This caters for the support requirements of end users and the community at large with the aim to develop a framework for research engagement.

SIG-RED
Special Interest Group on Research Engagement Development. See more

TF-EDU
Task Force on Educational activities and services. See more

SIG-DigitalHealthData
Special Interest Group on Digital Health Data. See more

SIG-Marcomms
Special Interest Group on Marketing Communications. See more

NPAPWS - Network Performing Arts Production Workshop See more

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Security

Security

This is a broad area, concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems. GÉANT's activities include defining and implementing appropriate security requirements for various types of systems. One requirement common to many systems is incident response: detecting and investigating failures and restoring the system to its intended security state.

SIG-ISM
Information Security Management - Developing security expertise and excellence within the NREN community​. See more

TRANSITS
State of the art, high-quality training for Computer Security and Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) see more

Trust & identity

Trust & Identity

Trust & Identity focuses on identity management federations, harmonisation and standardisation of interfaces, access control, service location and diagnostics, and involve liaison with other communities when relevant, simplifying access to content, services and resources for the global research and education community. Trust & Identity services enable mobility and facilitate sharing of information in a responsible manner.

Research and Education FEDerations

The mission of REFEDS is to be the voice that articulates the mutual needs of research and education identity federations worldwide. The group represents the requirements of research and education. See more

Network

Network

This area is concerned with organisational aspects, coordination and exchange of best practice regarding the provisioning and delivering of network services. Work in this area supports research on network technology and innovative network services. Campus networking is included in this area.

SIG-NGN
Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks
See more

SIG-NOC
Special Interest Group on Network Operations Centres See more

SIG-TFN
Special Interest Group on Time & Frequency Network
See more

Cloud

Cloud

The Cloud area of the GÈANT Community Programme deals with Interoperable software stacks, aimed at providing cloud services based on open standards and protocols, and focuses on supporting the uptake of Cloud technologies. Both private and public clouds are of interest within this domain, with the focus on building, operating, and monitoring cloud infrastructure in a hybrid cloud approach to the provisioning of services for the NRENs and their constituent institutions.

SIG-ISM
Information Security Management - Developing security expertise and excellence within the NREN community​. See more

TRANSITS
State of the art, high-quality training for Computer Security and Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) see more

Business practices

Business practices

Within this area the focus is on organisational, information gathering/exchange and delivery aspects of services provided to the community and by the community.

SIG-MSP
Special interest Group on Management of Service Portfolios. See more

SIG-AI
Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence. See more

SIG-Procurement
Special Interest Group on Procurement
See more

SIG-Sustainability
Special Interest Group on Sustainability
See more

Stakeholder engagement

Stakeholder engagement

This caters for the support requirements of end users and the community at large with the aim to develop a framework for research engagement.

NPAPWS
Network Performing Arts Production Workshop See more

SIG-Marcomms
Special Interest Group on Marketing Communications. See more

SIG-RED
Special Interest Group on Research Engagement Development. See more

TF-EDU
Task Force on Educational activities and services.
See more

SIG-DigitalHealth Data
Special Interest Group on Digital Health Data.
See more

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