CEENET CEE N etwork for E ducation and T raining Jacek Gajewski University of Warsaw and CEENET

1. CEENET CEE Network for Education and Training Jacek Gajewski University of Warsaw and CEENET gajewski@ceenet.org Oliver B. Popov Mid Sweden University, Saint Cyril and Methodius University, MARNet and CEENet oliver.popov@mh.se, oliver@marnet.mk

2. CEE Network for Education and Training • Reason • Information resources are among the fundaments of developed societies • Education • Research • Labor profiles • Government • Industry • Commerce • NREN – a primary resources for research and education communities

3. CEE Network for Education and Training • Goals and objectives • Dissemination of the technological know-how for building the essential infrastructure • Management strategies and policy issues for stability and sustainability • Sustainability = technological competence + managerial vision and efficiency + public awareness • Three types of educational events • Technology • Management • Policy

4. Workshops on Network Technology • Inspired by the ISOC effort on a global scale but modified, regionally and locally colored, in order to be more responsive and distributed. • Major funding came from • NATO and OSI • Large number of corporate sponsors • Cisco Systems, O’Reilly, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, HP, Silicon Graphics. 3Com, Newbridge Networks, IBM

5. Workshops on Network Technology • Three types of activities • Regular lectures • Theory • Exercises • Labs • Sponsor’s Spotlights (SSL) • Evening Lecture Series (ELS)

6. Workshops on Network Technology • Strategy • Always have a combined team of lecturers • From the CEE countries for promoting self-sufficiency, recognition and continuous training • From the EC and USA for state of the art updates as well as important nodes in the human network • To expose the participants to the leaders in the ICT industry • To explore the intended and unintended social and humanistic consequences of the ICT and to reassert the maxim Connecting machines… to connect people

7. Workshops on Network Technology • Initially two tracks • Engineering the Network (EngiNe) • Network Knowledge Systems (NetKnowS) • Warsaw – 1995, Budapest – 1996, Zagreb – 1997 • In 1998, a third track was introduced - Wired Education (WirEd) • Bratislava – 1998, Budapest – 1999, Budapest - 2000, Budapest - 2001

8. Workshops on Network Technology • In 2002, a technology workshop with only one track – EngiNe tailored to a specific audience – an educational extension of the Silk Project • The side-effect from the WirEd track • Running a pre-workshop distance courses in all three tracks in 2000 and 2001. It was a very effective instrument both for the selection and the preparation of the potential participants for the f2f event. • Running a pre-workshop distance course and WirEd in Russian language – Tver 2002 • Desire • SONETA – a sort of a permanent facility for education and training in networking

9. Workshops on Management and Policy • Workshops on Management • Yaroslavl – 1998 (co-organized with TERENA) • Ohrid – 2000 • Zagreb – 2002 • Workshops on Policy • Tartu – 1997 (CEENet Tartu Declaration) • Tbilisi – 1999 • Bishkek - 2001

10. Workshops on Management and Policy • Main issues • Target groups and domains • Services • Telecom and info regulations • Relation to the policy and decision makers • Funding models • Strategies for growth and stability • Challenges both technological and social

11. CEE Network Education and Training • July 2002 – a unique type of Workshop – NREN Creation “Flying” Workshop • Three countries • Czech Republic –CESNet • Poland – NASK/POL-34 • Estonia – EENet • NREN Creation Cookbook (in Russian) • Co-operates with Cisco Systems on the expansion of their programme Cisco Networking Academies in the CEE and FSU regions

12. CEENet Potential Human network and knowledge base • Thirty lecturers in all aspects of networking • Twenty course designers and developers for face to face and distance teaching. • Eight years of experience in logistic and management of educational and training events in ICT • Four years of experience with distance education – from design to running courses • Access to almost thirty member NRENs and more then 600 former students

13. CEE Network Education and Training How to contact CEENet www.ceenet.org secretary@ceenet.org CEENet Secretariat ul. Pasteura 7 02-093 Warsaw POLAND ViennaUniversity C.C Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Wien AUSTRIA Jacek Gajewski gajewski@ceenet.org Tel. +48 22) 668 58 07, Fax (+48 22) 668 58 07