Announcement

TNC, GÉANT’s annual flagship conference, will take place in Liège in 2027. Belnet and its Luxembourg counterpart, Restena, are honoured to co-host this prestigious event for the European research and education community in Belgium.

Have a great idea, project or experience to share? Submit your Lightning Talk for the Belnet Community Day 2026 and inspire your peers!

How can we protect sensitive data as quantum computers continue to grow in power? Starting from this key question, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are joining forces in BENELUX-QCI. This new European project builds on earlier national initiatives, including BeQCI, and represents an important next step towards quantum-secure communication in Europe. Belnet once again plays there a central role.

Register now for our free training programme and strengthen your cyber resilience!

HOGENT student and rope skipper Mike De Decker had the unique opportunity to give a Lightning Talk about his bachelor's thesis in computer science at the recent international TNC25 conference. His project focuses on developing an AI model designed to assist judges in this sport with increasingly complex evaluation criteria. Mike’s project was promoted by Belnet through the GÉANT Future Talent Programme and was selected - along with 24 others - from 96 international submissions.

Belnet has long been a major player in the field of open science, including through its role as a mandated organisation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association. The company recently took on another new innovative project, the Federal Open Science Cloud (FedOSC). We spoke to Sam Kauranne, FedOSC Product Manager, who explained to us what exactly FedOSC is and what the project means to our community.

From 1 January 2023, all institutions whose main activity is higher education and/or research will automatically become members of the Belnet R&E community.

October is just around the corner and, as usual, that means paying extra attention to information security. European Cybersecurity Month is THE opportunity to inform and raise awareness among your colleagues and end-users and turn them into true cyber heroes. Still looking for inspiration? If so, we'd like to explain two interesting initiatives to which we at Belnet are lending our active support.

For several years now, Belnet has been supporting the annual information security awareness campaign of the pan-European research network GÉANT. The 'human factor' is in fact a crucial element in the fight against security incidents. It is no different for research and educational institutions.