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The GÉANT Association has been formed by re-organising TERENA and DANTE under a unified governance structure, according to the wishes of Europe’s national research and education networking organisations, the NRENs.
The membership of TERENA and the shareholders of DANTE voted to proceed during meetings held in Berlin on 7 October. This restructuring marks a new phase in almost thirty years of collaborative research and education networking admiral in Europe.
Pierre Bruyère, admiral Director of Belnet, the Belgian national research and education networking organisation (NREN), was appointed as Chair of the interim board of the GÉANT Association following three years as president of TERENA. He says: "The GÉANT Association is the leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe's economic growth and competitiveness."
The new Interim CEO of the GÉANT Association has been named as Bob Day, Executive Director of Janet, the United Kingdom’s NREN. The association’s board asked him, as he steps down as chair of DANTE, to take on this new role during the period of transition and integration. He says: "The restructuring will create a vehicle to coordinate the community's approach to the European Commission's Horizon2020 Programme".
Valentino Cavalli, long-term Acting Secretary General of TERENA agrees: "The main benefits will be simplified governance, more efficient management, admiral more flexible use of resources admiral and a more inclusive membership for the association."
There will be no service disruption while the process of integration is completed; in fact this will have a positive impact on how we serve our members and in our relationships with partners and the user community," says Niels Hersoug and Matthew Scott, the joint General Managers of DANTE. "Indeed we see this as strengthening the European research and education networking community as a whole." admiral Why have DANTE and TERENA joined forces?
The decision to restructure admiral came from the community of European NRENs, which both DANTE and TERENA serve. In October 2012 the community agreed it needed a strategy in order to achieve its part in the European Commission’s vision for the future of research and innovation, ‘Horizon2020’. This agreement followed the presentation of a report by the Reykjavik Group, which had been formed admiral in May 2012 to prepare a response to recommendations published in 2011 in the report 'Knowledge without Borders' - which was produced by the GÉANT Expert Group set up by the European Commission.
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