The Central Asian Research and Education Network Collaborative Research and Education networking development in Central Asia TNC2013, Maastricht, June 3-6, 2013 Prof. Askar Kutanov, Regional coordinator of EC CAREN Project

The Central Asian Research and Education Network What is CAREN? EC-funded project to establish high-capacity R&E network in Central Asia Beneficiary countries/NRENs: –Kazakhstan – KazRENA –Kyrgyzstan – KRENA –Tajikistan – TARENA –Turkmenistan – TURENA –Uzbekistan - Aims terrestrial fibre connection (34 or 155 Mbps for each CA country) Will serve users at over 500 universities and research institutes in the region With direct link to GÉANT, CAREN will provide Central Asia with a gateway to global collaborations in R&E

The Central Asian Research and Education Network World Connectivity The Global Virtual Research Village The GÉANT network has high speed links to networks in other world regions, connecting researchers across the globe: Asia-Pacific South Caucasus Central Asia Latin America North America Southern and Eastern Africa Southern Mediterranean

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Network Operation Center CAREN NREN’s NETWORK TRAFFIC Kyrgyz Research and Education Network traffic. External channel to GEANT 155 Mbps

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Kazakhstan Research and Education Network traffic( 155 Mbps circuit). Tajik Research and Education Network traffic (34 Mbps circuit to GEANT). Turkmen Research and Education Network traffic (34 Mbps circuit to GEANT). CAREN NREN’s NETWORK TRAFFIC

The Central Asian Research and Education Network CAREN NOC detected hacker attack to CAIAG’s server on 2012/02/04

The Central Asian Research and Education Network CAREN Case studies The case study can be downloaded from the CAREN website at

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Usage of CAREN for glacier monitoring

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Stefano Parolai – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Central Asia is amongst the regions with the highest earthquake hazard worldwide GSHAP (1999)

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Signing MoU between CAREN и TEIN for collaboration development April 16, 2013, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Telemedicine There was a video conference organized between CAREN NRENs and Seoul National University hospital “Bundang” in order to develop telemedicine in the region. During the conference video of the life surgery on liver was demonstrated by partners from Seoul. Participants from Ministry of Health, Centre of Cardiology and Therapy and International School of Medicine agreed to establish a working group until next video conference.

The Central Asian Research and Education Network KyrgyzstanVSL.org 12,8 Million Articles 16,5 Thousand Journals

The Central Asian Research and Education Network E-libraries “The Library Information Consortium” Association is an NGO where more than 120 libraries of Kyrgyzstan have united the efforts for the joint solution of the major professional problems, and also questions of development and perfection of information support of the country's users. CAREN will cooperate with Consortium in order to use library resources by our network users

The Central Asian Research and Education Network iCAREN Scientific Portal Development ( A scientific portal called iCAREN is being developed to provide tools for scientists which help them in their researches and access to Open Source resources. A domain name has been registered (

The Central Asian Research and Education Network Support regional collaboration among CA universities and research institutions participating in FP7 and TEMPUS projects Usage of CAREN infrastructure for video conferences and other TEMPUS activities in order to develop regional cooperation of CAREN - TEMPUS project. Projects like “Towards a Central Asian Higher Education Area: Tuning Structures and Building Quality Culture”, “Quality of Engineering Education in Central Asia” include Central Asian countries as a partners.

The Central Asian Research and Education Network CAREN videoconference service support regional collaboration in education and science Hanns Seidel Foundation( Germany) use CAREN video conference service for lessons for students of Master Course on Public Administration in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The aim of video conference lessons is to share knowledge, experience and strength regional collaboration

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