1. GÉANT International Networking and Collaboration
TAIEX Workshop on GEANT, H2020 and European Synchrotron Sources
Karl Meyer 13 August 2017

2. GÉANT – Who we are and what we do
To support collaboration and development amongst researchers, the dissemination of information & knowledge, and provide access to a portfolio of services and infrastructure resources: 
Coordinates and participates in EC-funded projects Under Horizon 2020 the financial instrument for implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness
Operates a pan-European e-infrastructure GÉANT network
Manages a portfolio of services for research & education EduXXXX

3. Membership Association
GÉANT Association supports and represents over 40 NRENs across Europe. 
Together they support over 10,000 institutions and 50 million academic users. 

4. GÉANT and the Eastern Mediterranean - EUMEDCONNECT
Scope
Regional network for the Mediterranean since 2004 – now in its third phase
Phase 3: , extended until end 2019
Partners
Managed by GÉANT
Regional partner ASREN (The Arab States Research and Education Network)
5 EU NRENs (CY, ES, FR, GR, IT)
Beneficiaries: Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine
Project update
Lebanon connected for first time in 2016 and recently upgraded to 320Mbps, NREN being formed
Jordan link connects SESAME to CERN via ASREN and GÉANT, NREN being re-connected
Palestine interested in re-connection
DG NEAR increased EC funding to 60%

5. Users we work with Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Life Sciences
High-Energy Physics and Astronomy
Earth Sciences and Observations
Future Internet Projects
E-Infrastructures
Via the GÉANT User Support Function, GÉANT actively engages with a broad range of user communities

6. The GÉANT Network – Designed for R&E
Ro​bust - Over 1,000 terabytes o​​f data are transferred every day via the GÉANT IP backbone. ​
​Reliable - 100% average monthly access availability​.
​​Flexible - Services and infrastructure can be tailored to individual user requirements.​
​Future Proof - 100Gbps (gigabits per second) services​ are now available across the core network, with capbility to support up to 8Tbps (terabits per second). ​
“Today it would not be possible to work without the network that GÉANT and the NRENs have provided.”
CMS experiment, Large Hadr​on Collider (LHC)

7. The GÉANT Network – Supporting e-infrastructures
GÉANT is a founder partner of Di4R – Digital Infrastructures for Research
GÉANT’s goal is to be foundational for access to and use of e-infrastructures
The network should be invisible and pervasive ​

8. 5 Federations with voting rights in process of joining
eduGAIN - Securing Access to E-resources
Enabling secure Single Sign On services to global research and educational resources
Federated identities enable users to access a wide range of services using a single account sign-on managed by their 'home' institution 
Improves access
Improves security
Reduces management overhead and costs.
April 2017:
43 Federations active
5 Federations with voting rights in process of joining
3244 entities (50% growth)
Candidate
Voting only
eduGAIN
Developing

9. Trust and Identity – User Consultancy & Support Task 5: Enabling Users - CLARIN
Defining a long-term agreement/solution/process between CLARIN, ERIC and eduGAIN member federations to publish the CLARIN SP Federation metadata in eduGAIN
Using CLARIN’s experience and existing concepts to create the eduGAIN Attribute Release Check tool
Notifyingthe identity federations with the highest numbers of users that have a requirement to use CLARIN services but are unable to do so 
USER ENGAGEMENT NEEDED FOR PLATFORM INNOVATION TOO
The CLARIN research community operates 28 SAML Service Providers in at least nine countries.
CLARIN was one of the first international research projects to use federated identity management for its highly distributed community. It also built the “CLARIN Service Provider Federation” (SPF, cf. [CLARIN-SPF]) as an “organisational proxy” in order to facilitate the registration of the CLARIN SPs with all relevant federations. CLARIN operates its own SAML2 metadata stream for this purpose.
Evaluating concepts and solutions to better handle cases where a user with too few attributes attempts to access an eduGAIN service (ongoing)

10. Scientific user groups we liaise with
Physics sciences High-energy physics (LHC, BELLE II, CERN, etc.) Neutrino observation (KM3NET)
Life sciences
Genomics (Elixir, EBI, EMBL)
BioImaging
E-Infrastructures (EGI, EUDAT, PRACE, HelixNebula)