Pandemic has changed the role of teachers
The move to e-learning triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns has created new opportunities but also meant additional stress for tertiary education teachers in the United Kingdom.
Technology
Furthering international research collaboration through competition
NRENs supported the Data Mover Challenge 2021, an annual international competition that brings together experts from industry and academia and tests their software and solutions for transferring huge amounts of research data.
Austria gearing up for the quantum age
A collaborative project is building network infrastructure capable of transmitting quantum information.
LEARN: Empowering Rural Texas One Library at a Time
What began as a casual conversation about the importance of libraries being able to provide their communities with reliable, high-speed internet access evolved into a major project.
Nepal’s oldest science campuses go online
Since the Tri-Chandra College in Kathmandu, Nepal, introduced remote education in response to the national COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020, e-learning has spread rapidly to other institutions
On track for faster railways in Sri Lanka
Digital technologies underpinned by LEARN enabled PhD students to continue to participate in a railroad research project during COVID-19.
Digital twins help prepare for climate change
A new European initiative, Destination Earth, will use models of Earth sub-systems to assist authorities in preparing for extreme weather events related to climate change.
Fulfilling the promise of collapsing space and time
For the scientists and researchers linked to the Pacific Research Platform, the conduct of science was already at the desk and important discovery and knowledge continued uninterrupted during COVID-19.
Boosting connectivity for research in the Eastern Mediterranean region
Research and education communities in Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan will benefit from improved connectivity as a new link through London will offer service to the Eastern Mediterranean region.