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 Network Service of the FCCN unit, was elected to join the Board of Directors of GÉANT. GÉANT is the European organisation with which the NRENs (National Research and Education Networks) and counterparts of the FCCN unit have a connection, for the projection of 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 for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, inaugurates in Bragança and Vila Real, the first steps of the RCTS100 project - an FCCN Unit initiative that will expand the optical fibre 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

Learn how the eduVPN program, promoted in Portugal by the FCCN Unit, facilitates distance working for students, teachers and employees of higher education in Portugal.

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Get to know the steps taken by the FCCN Unit to support Distance Learning and Teleworking

06.11.2020

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a very significant increase in the use of the FCCN Unit's services. 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 in a row, EllaLink receives the Global Carrier award from Capacity Media as "Best Subsea Project of the Year". It should be recalled that EllaLink will enable the creation of a research network between Europe and Latin America throughout the lifetime of the system. This project is in collaboration with 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

Get to know the technological possibility offered by the RCTSaai service - through a single login, access all the tools made available by the FCCN Unit to the whole RCTS* community.

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RCAAP marks International Open Access Week

20.10.2020

RCAAP - Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto em Portugal has created a website that publicises activities throughout the country that are linked to the international Open Access week.

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"Educast allows you to manage day-to-day work much better"

20.10.2020

Over the past few years, the Judicial Studies Centre (CEJ) has uploaded more than 7,000 videos to the Educast platform, in tens of thousands of minutes of content on various areas of law. CEJ's IT and eLearning technician explains the reason for investing in this FCCN unit's service, detailing some of the main advantages found in this connection which, he believes, in times of pandemic, will tend to deepen.

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e-Jornadas 2020: 5 days of meeting and reflection

20.10.2020

From 12 to 16 October, the e-Jornadas 2020 were the virtual meeting point for the community served by FCT's National Scientific Computing Unit (Unidade FCCN), with the sharing of the latest news on FCCN services and projects.

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