Partners

The GÉANT2 project is a collaboration between 30 European national research and education networks (NRENs), DANTE and TERENA.

The managing partner and project co-ordinator is DANTE. DANTE's purpose is to plan, build and operate pan-European research networks. It was set up, and is owned, by a group of NRENs. It was established in 1993, and has since played a pivotal role in five consecutive generations of pan-European research network: EuropaNET, TEN-34, TEN-155, GÉANT and now GÉANT2.

TERENA, the European association of research and education networking organisations, also has significant responsibilities within the project. It handles a number of the outreach activities, and supports the co-ordination of the research and development effort among project partners. In particular, it encourages the common exploration of new technologies between project partners and other groups that are active in tehnical development of particular relevance to research and education networking, through the continued operation of TERENA task forces.

Besides these two organisations, 30 NRENs participate in the project, and are directly connected to the network. One of the 30 NRENs is NORDUnet, the Nordic regional NREN, which connects Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The list below contains links to the websites of these NRENs.