"We are building a next-generation RCTS"

28.12.2020

The Director of the Network Services Area of the FCT's FCCN Unit, Ana Pinto, explains the main new features involved in RCTS 100, as well as their impact on higher education and research institutions in Portugal. The changes that are already being implemented will make it possible to meet the needs of the entities connected to the Portuguese academic network.

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Educast launches new HTML5 editor

28.12.2020

Unity service FCCN launches a new HTML5 video editor that replaces the previous flash version and introduces new features.

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Turismo de Portugal creates course "Initiation to wine tasting" on the NAU platform

16.12.2020

Training created by Turismo de Portugal arrived on the NAU platform on December 1. "Wine tasting goes far beyond the

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Interview with the winner of Arquivo.pt Prize 2020, Miguel Ramalho

14.12.2020

Miguel Ramalho was the winner of the Arquivo.pt 2020 Award, for his work Desarquivo - a platform that analyses news preserved by Arquivo.pt to establish relations between entities, people and places. The graduate of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) explains the usefulness of this platform, describing the context that led to its creation.

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Ana Pinto elected as member of GÉANT Board of Directors

10.12.2020

Ana Pinto, Director of the Networks Service at FCCN, has been elected to the GÉANT Board of Directors. GÉANT is the European organization with which the NRENs (National Research and Education Networks) and counterparts of the FCCN unit are linked, in order to project international collaboration initiatives in the field of research and services for the academic and scientific community.

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Géant creates page with more information about EllaLink GeoLab

17.11.2020

The pioneering project that will place, for the first time, an infrastructure to study the ocean floor on a submarine cable already has an information page created by GÉANT.

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National Academic Network increases fibre optic coverage

17.11.2020

Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, inaugurates in Bragança and Vila Real, the first steps of the RCTS100 project - an initiative of the Unit FCCN that will extend the fiber optic footprint of the national academic network (Science, Technology and Society Network - RCTS)

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How do you ensure safe access for remote students and staff?

17.11.2020

Find out how the eduVPN program, promoted in Portugal by Unidade FCCN, facilitates distance working for students, teachers and higher education staff in Portugal.

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Learn about the steps taken by the Unit FCCN to support Distance Learning and Teleworking

06.11.2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a very significant increase in the use of the Unit's services FCCN. Learn about the steps taken to ensure support for distance learning and teleworking.

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Arquivo.pt: The role of digital preservation in open science

05.11.2020

The manager of Arquivo.pt, Daniel Gomes, reveals some of the steps taken to accomplish the mission of "preserving the information published on the Web for scientific and academic purposes".

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EllaLink repeats success at global Carrier Award as best subsea project of the year

30.10.2020

For the second year running, EllaLink has been awarded the Global Carrier prize by Capacity Media for "Best Subsea Project of the Year". EllaLink will enable the creation of a research network between Europe and Latin America throughout the system's lifetime. This project has the collaboration of GÉANT and the National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN) of the Foundation for Science and Technology.

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RCTSAAI. Do you know what federated authentication is?

30.10.2020

Discover the technological possibilities offered by the RCTSaai service - through a single login, you can access all the tools made available by the Unit FCCN to the entire RCTS community*.

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