International Cooperation

EENet is a full member of two international networking organisations and European Grid Infrastructure:
	TERENA (the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association) was formed in October 1994 when two academic networks - RARE (Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne) and EARN (European Academic and Research Network) - merged. TERENA unites national research networks and other organisations active in this field with the aim of creating a high quality international information and telecommunication infrastructure for the European research and educational community. EENet is a member of TERENA since 30 October 1996.
	CEENet (Central and Eastern European Networking Association) was established in January 1994 in Warsaw, Poland. The association unites the academic networks of 24 countries with the aim of coordinating the international aspects of the activities of educational and research networks in Eastern and Central Europe. EENet became a member of CEENet in October 1994.
	EGI (European Grid Infrastructure) is an organisation established under Dutch law. The objective of EGI is to create and maintain a pan-European Grid Infrastructure in collaboration with National Grid Iniatives (NGIs) in order to guarantee the long-term availability of a generic e-infrastructure for all European research communities and their international collaborators. EENet became a member of EGI in 2010.
EENet participates in the following cooperation projects:
	GÉANT is the pan-European data network dedicated to the research and education community. Together with Europe's national research networks, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries. GÉANT project web-page DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) is a non-profit organization, established by national research networks in 1993 with the aim of providing international data communication services to the European research community. DANTE was also one of the leaders of the TEN-34 (Trans-European Network at 34Mbps), TEN-155 and GÉANT projects.
	Eduroam stands for Education Roaming and is a federation of institutions offering Internet connectivity to users from all of the participating institutions through a system of RADIUS server hierarchy. Originally a European project, eduroam has become a global infrastructure with members all over the world. EENet joined eduroam in 2005. EENet eduroam web-page
	DC-NET (Digital Cultural heritage NETwork) is an ERA-NET (European Research Area Network) project, financed by the European Commission under the e-Infrastructure - Capacities Programme of the FP7. The main objective of the DC-NET project is to develop and to strengthen the co-ordination among the European countries of public research programmes in the sector of the digital cultural heritage. The project will integrate the research capacities of the participant member states, will identify their communalities and will valorise existing programmes and projects in order to initiate the deployment of a wide and comprehensive European e-Infrastructure that will increase the research capacities of the digital cultural heritage community. DC-NET project web-page
Former cooperation projects:
	The BalticGrid-II project is designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of services and users of the recently created e-Infrastructure in the Baltic States. The project vision is to support and stimulate scientists and services used in the Baltic region to conveniently access critical networked resources both within Europe and beyond, and thereby enable the formation of effective research collaborations. BalticGrid-II project web-page Estonian Grid
	GÉANT2 is a pan-European research and education network, providing the European research and educational community with reliable, high-performance, state-of-the-art networking services. It is co-funded by the European Commission and Europe's national research and education networks, and is managed by DANTE. The contract between the project partners and the European Commission provides total funding from the EU of 93 million Euros over four years from 1 September 2004. 30 European NRENs are partners in the project. GÉANT2 project web-page
BalticGrid	The goal of the BalticGrid project was to extend the European Grid by integrating new partners from the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) into the European Grid research community and to foster the development of Grid infrastructure in these countries. In addition to developing specific products in terms of Grid infrastructure and applications, the BalticGrid consortium also focused on strengthening collaboration between the participating partners. BalticGrid project web-page
	Porta Optica Study was an international project with the ultimate goal of stimulating and consolidating initiatives to ensure the successful deployment of a dark-fiber based network in Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and Southern Caucasus countries. EENet Porta Optica Study web-page
	The GÉANT project was a collaboration between 26 National Research and Education Networks representing 30 countries across Europe, the European Commission, and DANTE. Its principal purpose was to develop the GÉANT network - a multi-gigabit pan-European data communications network, reserved specifically for research and education use.
	NORDUnet is a an organisation that unites the national research networks of Scandinavia and provides their connectivity to USA and GÉANT2. Finland is represented by FUNET, Denmark by Forskingsnettet, Iceland by RHnet, Norway by UNINETT and Sweden by SUNET. NORDUNet provided international connectivity to EENet between 1994 and 2001.
	FUNET (Finnish University and Research Network) is a high speed data communications network serving the Finnish research community. It connects about 80 research organizations and 350 000 users. Funet services are maintained by CSC, the Finnish information technology center for science. From 1994 to 1999 FUNET partly financed the Tallinn-Helsinki international link for academic users.
BALTNet	The BALTNet project was established by the Nordic Council of Ministers in 1993 with the aim of supporting the development of educational and research networks in the Baltic States. The main partners in Estonia were EENet and the Information Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers. BALTNet purchased networking equipment for schools and research institutes, supported financially the international connectivity of EENet and organised a number of seminars. In 1999 the main objective of the project was to support teacher training in information technology. New permanent Internet connections or faster connections were installed in nine institutions. The upgrade of EENet Jõhvi and Tallinn Data Communication Centres were also financed by BALTNet. The purchase of three central servers for the educational and research network in 2000 was also supported. In 2000 the "Telematics 2000 - IT in Estonian Schools: Between Chaos and Order" conference was financed by BALTNet project.