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Events

ASREN's AfricaConnect3 (C3) and EUMEDCONNECT3 Meeting

ASREN's Bi-Annual Meeting, held from May 29-31, 2024, in Rabat, Morocco, brought together representatives from member institutions to discuss NREN updates and challenges, future developments and project results (AfricaConnect3, EUMEDCONNECT3)

e-AGE22: Advancing Science Cooperation

Hosted by ASRT in Cairo, Egypt, e-AGE22 convened leaders to explore Open Science, NREN contributions, and global collaboration. Discussions focused on challenges, new technologies, and sustainability

A Regional Conference on “MARWAN: an innovation enabler through advanced e-Infrastructures"

This event emphasized the role of MARWAN in supporting research and education communities. Topics included NREN sustainability, Open Science, Cloud Computing, and Science Cooperation

Arab Science Cooperation Summit

ASREN's Arab Science Cooperation Summit during UNGA77 aimed to inaugurate an Arab Science Dialogue. Representatives discussed science's role in development, emphasizing cooperation for UN-SDGs and Open Science

A Panel Discussion on Digital Infrastructures to enable Science Cooperation in Africa

AfricaConnect3 was featured at UNGA77's Science Summit with a panel on digital infrastructures for science cooperation in Africa. The discussion emphasized NRENs' role in enabling collaboration, addressing challenges, and supporting UN-SDGs

A Conference on "Open Science – The Way Forward"

ASREN and CCK organized the 'Open Science – The Way Forward' conference in Tunis, featuring speakers discussing Open Science, AI, NRENs, Clouds, and Science Cooperation. Preceding the conference, a regional meeting focused on NRENs' support for research and education communities

Digital Research & Education Infrastructure to Support Science and Achieve the UN-SDGs

This session explored the critical role of research and education networks (NRENs and RRENs) in facilitating collaboration and advancing 'Open Science' initiatives. It highlighted successful regional models, engagement strategies, challenges, and future prospects

e-AGE21: e-Infrastructure for Science and Beyond

e-AGE21, held virtually from December 13 to 15, 2021, explored the role of open science in advancing UN SDGs. It focused on NRENs, e-Infrastructures, and Services, Arab Regional and Global Science Cooperation, and hosted the First Arab Event on Open Science

Arab Science Cooperation to achieve UN SDGs

ASREN joined the UNGA76 Science Summit, presenting 'Arab Science Cooperation for UN SDGs.' Held virtually on September 23, 2021, the session highlighted science's role in Arab region development, focusing on health, climate action, and life below water

Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region

African NRENs, under ASREN, WACREN, and UbuntuNet Alliance, promote global research collaboration with EU support like AfricaConnect3 and LIBSENSE. This event at OR2021 introduced a co-creation approach for FAIR principles and digital repositories

ORCID: A Reliable Open Research e-Infrastructures Enabler

The workshop provided an overview of ORCID and its benefits for researchers and member organizations, highlighting the importance of ORCID in shaping the future of online research and education.

ASREN - LIBSESNE Workshop: Next Steps

The event focused on supporting Open Knowledge through an initiative for harvesting data repositories in the Arab region, with a particular emphasis on Arabic content and language. Additionally, regional practices on open access and open data repositories were presented.

e-AGE20

e-AGE20, the 10th edition of the annual conference, was themed "Power of e-Infrastructures - Shaping the Future of Online Research and Education." The event aimed to provide a forum for sharing practices and experiences that go beyond teaching online courses and sharing resources in unprecedented isolation.

LIBSENSE Workshop: Arab Region - Progress & Prospective

This virtual workshop addressed open science and open data, featuring presentations on Open Access stories from Arab countries, developments of Arabic harvesters, and more

e-AGE19

e-AGE19, the conference's 9th edition, focused on demonstrated successes in using research and education e-Infrastructures and the need for interoperable high-speed networks at national, regional, and international levels

LIBSENSE-III Workshop

This workshop is organized in conjunction with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and EIFL as part of the LIBSENSE Initiative

ASREN perfSONAR Workshop

ASREN, International Networks at Indiana University (IN@IU), and MARWAN held a perfSONAR training workshop in Rabat, Morocco, from 15-18 April 2019

e-AGE18

e-AGE18, held in Amman between 2-3 December, focused on demonstrated successes in using research and education e-Infrastructures, leading to increased demand for capacities at national, regional, and international levels.

e-AGE 2017

e-AGE was held under the patronage of His Excellency Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, in Cairo, Egypt, on 3-4 December

e-AGE 2016

e-AGE 2016, took place at the American University of Beirut (AUB) from December 1st – 2nd, 2016, under the patronage of the Lebanese Minister of Telecommunications.

e-AGE 2015

e-AGE 2015 was held at Casablanca, Morocco, during 7-8 December 2015, hosted by The National Centre for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST).

e-AGE 2014

Hosted by The Research Council (TRC) of Oman, ASREN held its fourth annual event, e-AGE 2014 on December 10-11, 2014, in Muscat, Oman