Enlighten Your Research

Would your research benefit from international collaboration and the sharing of large amounts of data? Then we have good news, because the successful competition for researchers “Enlighten Your Research” in the Netherlands now becomes International!

Modern science is generating large amounts of data and timely data transfers are a crucial aspect for the emerging international scientific collaborations. High-speed networks are an important enabler for the sharing of these large amounts of data. In many cases, researchers are unaware of the possibilities of such high-speed networks, offered by their National Research and Education Networks (NREN’s). In order to help researchers with their international collaborations and to further promote the benefits of international-scale networking to researchers, five leading NRENs are working together to create an exciting opportunity for the research communities.

The Enlighten Your Research Global (EYR-Global) program is an international competition that invites researchers and their collaborators to submit proposals that highlight how access to world-class research networks would significantly improve their research and discovery process.

Is your research ready for an international challenge?

Join Enlighten Your Research Global and discover how our services can help you get the most out of your research! We invite researchers from any discipline to submit a proposal with challenging research questions.  The program is open to a wide range of research teams - ranging from novice to expert in the use of information technology - to support their research projects to participate in the competition.

What are the benefits?

The competition winners will have access to:

• World-class network infrastructure operated by the NRENs and their partners.
• Support and advice on end-to-end network connectivity.

NREN commitment to an agreed level of network resource provisioning and support during the competition period.

We invite you to visit the official website, to read the supporting documents and to get involved. Visit http://www.enlightenyourresearch.net to find details of the competition, its timeline and the procedure for submitting a draft proposal.

Important dates

The first draft proposal submission is 24 June 2013, good luck!