EllaLink repeats success at global Carrier Award as best subsea project of the year

30.10.2020

For the second year running, EllaLink has been awarded the Global Carrier prize by Capacity Media for "Best Subsea Project of the Year". EllaLink will enable the creation of a research network between Europe and Latin America throughout the system's lifetime. This project has the collaboration of GÉANT and the National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN) of the Foundation for Science and Technology.

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RCTSAAI. Do you know what federated authentication is?

30.10.2020

Discover the technological possibilities offered by the RCTSaai service - through a single login, you can access all the tools made available by the Unit FCCN to the entire RCTS community*.

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"Educast allows you to manage day-to-day work much better"

20.10.2020

Over the last few years, the Center for Judicial Studies (CEJ) has uploaded more than 7,000 videos to the Educast platform, with tens of thousands of minutes of content on various areas of law. The CEJ's IT and eLearning technician explains why the unit has invested in this service FCCN, detailing some of the main added value found in this connection which, he believes, in times of pandemic, will tend to deepen.

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Ciência Viva completes interactive exhibition at Estúdio FCCN

01.10.2020

The "Viral" exhibition at the Pavilion of Knowledge was reopened on September 24. Find out about the role of Estúdio FCCN in preparing new interactive modules.

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New NAU Platform website reinforces commitment to training and qualification with free courses

23.09.2020

Digital skills are an essential pillar of competitiveness and the NAU platform, with the collaboration of public and private entities, aims to promote the production of relevant content, creating a consistent and collaborative ecosystem, encouraging personal and professional development. This initiative is especially important for Portugal to succeed in the digital world, in line with the XXII Constitutional Government's programme.

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European Commission announces two high performance computing projects

15.09.2020

EuroCC and CASTIEL projects will form a network of 33 national centres dedicated to high performance computing.

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86% of users FCCN satisfied with services during lockdown

01.09.2020

A survey of around 1,300 users of the FCCN services aimed to gauge the level of community satisfaction during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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CENJOR offers three courses through the NAU Platform

01.09.2020

Free training courses in the area of communication focused on the diagnosis of fake news, image capture techniques for smartphones and the creation of digital content. Registrations are already open.

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"The Videocast represents an essential support"

01.09.2020

Nuno Oliveira, a marine conservation technician at the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), describes the role of the service managed by the FCT's FCCN Unit, Videocast, in the "Cagarras nas Berlengas | Natureza na Web" project - an initiative that seeks to "promote environmental education and awareness" through uninterrupted live transmission from a nest of this bird species.

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1st edition of the Advanced Computing Projects Call

14.08.2020

About 27 million core.hours available on the National Advanced Computing Network.

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Winners of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize 2020

14.08.2020

Arquivo.pt, a research infrastructure managed by FCT, through its National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN), has announced the three winning finalists of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020.

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Summer 2020 RCTS CERT Capture The Flag" results - extremely positive balance  

11.08.2020

Computer security incident response service of the Science Technology and Society Network - RCTS organised a "Capture The Flag" event, between 4 and 6 August, lasting 50 hours. 

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