Transcript Ceenet educational activities

CEENet and its activities
Jacek Gajewski, PhD
[email protected]
Central and Eastern European Networking Association
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What is CEENet?
CEENet Central and Eastern European Networking Association
is an association (registered in Austria) of 26 national
organizations from CEE and FSU countries, which
focus on the academic, research and educational
networking.
The primary mission of CEENet
is the international co-ordination of the establishment
and operation of academic, research and educational
networks in CEE and FSU.
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CEENet educational activities
Surveys show that IT education is a major need
of CEE/FSU region and the right investment.
CEENet co-organizes workshops (including all
logistics) on:
– Network Policy (Tartu97, Tbilisi99, Bishkek01);
– Network Managerial Methods (Yaroslavl98,
Ohrid00, Zagreb02);
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– Network
Technology
(Warsaw95,
Bratislava98, Budapest 96 / 99 / 00 / 01 / 02, Tver 02)
Zagreb97,
- consisting of 3 tracks:
• Engineering the Network
(with SILK, VSAT sel-up in Budapest 2002)
• Networked Knowledge Systems
• Wired Education
(in Russian language in Tver 2002)
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CEENet
distance learning courses
CEENet
- runs 3 distance learning courses (using
WebCT platform) in English and Russian;
- cooperates with CISCO in spreading
„CISCO Academies” in CEE/FSU;
- maintains training facility (SONETA)
in CEU Budapest.
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CEENet educational potential
• IT lecturer team of ca. 30 persons (English, partially
English&Russian speaking);
• direct contacts to educational networks in 20+ countries
and to ca. 550 former students in key positions in CEE/FSU
IT sector;
• Several IT training programmes, ability to develop and
implement new educational and professional programmes;
• 4 IT distance learning courses, ca. 20 designers, 40 tutors;
• Access to SONETA training facility;
• 8 year experience in logistic and management of IT
trainings;
• 4 year experience in distance learning, course design and
tutoring.
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NREN Creation Support
NREN creation handbook
– a set of articles on creation of sustainable NRENs and
sample basic documents from well established NRENs
(in Russian)
NREN creation (‘flying’) Workshop
– a visit of reps from emerging NRENs from fSU (and
Balkans?) to CESNet, NASK, POL34, EENet (and
CARNet?)
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Other CEENet potential
• contacts to key people at NRENs, who are at the forefront
of IT and networking in their countries
• Contacts to international consultants in IT area of: policy,
regulations and communications law, proliferation of IT in
all levels of education, funding;
• Experience in cooperation with leading CIT companies,
vendors and international funding institutions (OSI,
NATO, EC-FP5, UNDP, World Bank, etc.
• Grant and consortium partner brokerage
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How to contact CEENet?
URL: www.ceenet.org
[email protected]
ViennaUniversity C.C.
Universitaetsstrasse 7
A-1010 Wien
AUSTRIA
CEENet Secretariat
ul. Pasteura 7
02-093 Warsaw
POLAND
Jacek Gajewski
[email protected]
Tel. +48 22) 668 58 07, Fax (+48 22) 668 58 07
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