Overview

This is the home of the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) - formerly the TERENA Technical Committee.  The Committee has oversight of the GÉANT Community Programme.

The GCC operates under the auspices of the GA via an agreed terms of reference.

The community programme is an open initiative and as such this wiki space and all associated papers are publicly available.  The official public file store for the GCC can be found at: https://geant.box.com/v/gcc.

Portfolio

https://community.geant.org/thematic-areas/

Processes

Objectives

The main objectives of the GCC are to: 

  • Build community identity. Promote a sense of belonging and identity that the whole community can embrace. Highlight the broader role of GÉANT as a collaborative community that enables European R&E to excel, fosters innovation, knowledge exchange, and cooperation across the continent’s R&E landscape and connects it with the wider global community. GCC members serve as ambassadors in their respective expertise and roles to build the sense of belonging and community identity. 
  • Link strategically. Identify areas of cross collaboration and link Community Programme initiatives strategically across GÉANT programming. Ensure coordination with external bodies such as the CEO Forum, EOSC working groups and others. 
  • Steer and advise. Guide on initiatives entrusted to them via the Community Programme such as the Innovation Programme and other collaborative initiatives to ensure they address community priorities.  
  • Unite in diversity. Represent the community from the ground up to ensure the GÉANT Community Programme reflects the full diversity- thematic, geographic and individual background- of the community and incentivises the broadest level of participation, based on community solidarity principles. 
  • Bridge gaps. Support ways to address disparities within the NREN community and strengthen collaboration of NRENs from different backgrounds first and foremost across Europe, also  beyond.  
  • Evaluate and improve. Annually evaluate the implementation of the GÉANT Community Programme Strategy and advise on improvements. Support the development of new iterations that stay relevant and responsive to new priority areas of the community. 






  

GÉANT Community Committee Members

Chair:

  • Charlie van Genuchten, SURF, (term: May 2024 - May 2027) - Security

GÉANT co-Chair

  • Paul Rouse - Strategy, business, commercial

Other members of the committee are:

  • Arjan Xhelaj, RASH, (term: May 2024 - May 2027) - Community, policy, strategy

  • Marialuisa Lavitrano, Unimib (term: May 2022 - May 2025) - eHealth
  • Erik Kikkenborg, NORDUnet (term: November 2021 - November 2027) - Education, Multimedia
  • János Mohácsi, KIFÜ (Term: June 2019 - June 2025) - Network /GPPC /EOSC
  • David Groep, NIKHEF / AEGIS (Term: June 2019 - June 2025) - T&I/ Grid / HPC
  • Victoriano Giralt, Uni Malaga / Groningen Declaration (Term: June 2019 - June 2025) - T&I, Universities, EUNIS

Previous Members:

  • Claudio Allocchio, GARR (term: April 2016 - November  2024) - Security, network RTC  - former chair
  • Charlie van Genuchten, SURF, (term: May 2024 - Nov 2024) - Security
  • Alexander van den Hill, SURF, (term: May 2022 - May 2024)  - Network
  • Claudio Pisa, GARR (term: May 2022 - May 2025, resigned October 2023) - Clouds
  • Sabine Jaume, RENATER (Term: June 2019 - June 2025 - resigned March 2023) - Community, policy, strategy
  • Guido Aben, AARnet (term: April 2016- May 2022) - Software development, Clouds
  • Anna Wilson, HEAnet. (term: April 2016- May 2022) - Network automation
  • Branka Vuk, CARNET (Term: June 2019 - June 2022 - resigned July 2021)
  • Andrew Cormack, Jisc. (term: April 2016- April 2019)
  • Simon Leinen, SWITCH. (term: April 2016- April 2019)
  • Diego Lopez, Telefonica. term: April 2017 - April 2020)
  • Alf Moens, SURFnet. (term: April 2016- April 2019)
  • Damien La Carpentier, CSC. (term: April 2016 - April 2017)
  • Peter Schober, ACOnet. (term: April 2016 - April 2017)
  • Johan Bergström, Umeå. (term: April 2017 - April 2018)
  • Valter Nordh, Sunet (term April 2016 - April 2020) - former chair

GÉANT Community Committee Meetings


Past TTC Meetings