Tightening of Project Budget – Stricter Funding CriteriaJune 30, 2026 5:04 pmThe Vietsch Foundation currently operates in three directions: the Annual Medal of Honour, the Seed Project Funding, and the collection of Funds to support URAN in the difficult situation the NREN of Ukraine is finding itself due to the current war. The Seed Project Funding line relies purely on theRead More
Special Medal of Honour 2026June 9, 2026 4:55 pmThe Vietsch Foundation awards a special Vietsch Medal of Honour to URAN, the Ukrainian NREN The Vietsch Foundation has awarded a special Vietsch Medal of Honour to URAN, the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Ukraine, in recognition of its extraordinary commitment to keeping UkraineRead More
Medal of Honour 2026June 9, 2026 4:53 pmThe Vietsch Foundation awards the 2026 Medal of Honour to Marko Bonač The recipient of the 2026 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is Marko Bonač, director of ARNES, the Slovenian national research and education network (NREN). The medal was presented to Marko on 9June 2026, during an awardRead More
SILT Core – Delegation and Revocation Semantics for Federated Research InfrastructureMay 8, 2026 8:11 amFunded in 2026 – SILT Core is a specification-focused project addressing a recognised gap in federated identity systems: the absence of portable, inspectable delegation and revocation semantics. The project defines a minimal, technology-agnostic layer for expressing authority, scope, and conseRead More
SciFlow text editor Integration to Open Journal SystemApril 9, 2026 10:31 amFunded in 2026 – The project will develop, test, and roll out an in-built text editor for the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform from PKP, enabling journals to streamline production directly in OJS and strengthen the Open Access publishing infrastructure. The project addresses a critical gap Read More
INST-DSpaceJanuary 14, 2026 3:28 pmFunded in 2026 – The project aims to expand the DSpace-CRIS data model so that instruments and facilities can be added to the snapshot for the institutional research activity. DSpace-CRIS is an increasingly popular open-source alternative to implement an institutional research information managemeRead More
NixOS Based Gateway for Remote LaboratoriesOctober 7, 2025 10:26 amFunded in 2025 – The project will provide an open-source NixOS-based gateway to help universities and research institutions in making their laboratories accessible on the Internet and in publishing them online. The gateway will package the full DecentraLabs remote access stack into a declaratiRead More
DMARCaroniOctober 7, 2025 10:18 amFunded in 2025 – Email dates back over fifty years, but it is still one of the most widely used internet technologies. It is used for many official types of communication, but also for example for mission critical functions like resetting passwords and sending invoices. Metadata about email (wRead More
Medal Award 2025June 11, 2025 10:00 amThe Vietsch Foundation awards the 2025 Medal of Honour to Cathrin Stöver. The recipient of the 2025 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is Cathrin Stöver, Chief Communications Officer of GÉANT. The medal was presented to Cathrin on 10 June 2025, during an award ceremony at the TNC opening pRead More
Opening-Up Open Science Repositories: Development of an eduGAIN Interface for Secure Access to InvenioRDMMay 16, 2025 2:27 pmFunded in 2024 – The project of Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) intends to add eduGAIN as a federated authentication option and thus as a login possibility to InvenioRDM, the turn key research data management repository at TU Graz. InvenioRDM has been started by CERN and is beiRead More
The Canute Tactile Commons: The universal tactile interface for public APIs for blind developers and researchersDecember 8, 2024 5:55 pmFunded in 2024 – This project by Bristol Braille Technology CIC intends to better open up publicly accessible APIs to blind developers and academics by creating a universal language of spacial, tactile interfaces that run on novel electromechanical displays as well as being embossed to paper. Read More
Erik Huizer joins the Board of the Vietsch FoundationDecember 4, 2024 5:21 pmThe Vietsch Foundation is honoured to welcome Erik Huizer in its Board of Trustees. A Senior Advisor at GÉANT, Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research and education, Erik joined the Vietsch Foundation on the first of December 2024. From 2017 to November 2024 hRead More
Towards enriched open scholarly information – integrating DSpace repositories and OpenAlexOctober 14, 2024 1:27 pmFunded in 2024 – The University of Cambridge is partnering with 4Science to deliver this project, which will integrate two key systems within the global scholarly ecosystem, the DSpace repository (https://www.dspace.org/) and OpenAlex (https://openalex.org/), a free and open catalogue of the worldRead More
Final Report of the SIMULACRO projectOctober 1, 2024 2:40 pmSIMULACRO VR online app Vietsch Foundation Final Report 1 Introduction This report reflects the work developed and committed to in the agreement signed between the University of Vigo, Faculty of Communications, and the Vietsch Foundation on 29-30 May 2024. The Vietsch Foundation’s contributionRead More
Medal Award 2024June 14, 2024 10:17 amThe Vietsch Foundation awards the 2024 Medal of Honour to Christian Grimm. The recipient of the 2024 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is Christian Grimm, Chief Executive Officer of DFN, the research and education networking (NREN) organisation of Germany. The medal was presented to ChristiaRead More
Simulacro ProjectMay 30, 2024 1:31 pmFunded in 2024 – The project is an interactive online environment using a virtual set to to simulate audiovisual learning and creation processes. The environment consists of a virtual TV studio with three sets, to interactively manage lighting and filming schemes, based on the following functiRead More
Medal Award 2023June 7, 2023 8:07 amThe Vietsch Foundation awards the 2023 Medal of Honour to Arjan Xhelaj. The recipient of the 2022 medal of honour of the Vietsch Foundation is Arjan Xhelaj, founder, Director General and Chairman of the Governance Board of RASH, the Academic Network of Albania. The medal is awarded annually to peoplRead More
Andrew Cormack, 16-4-1963 13-4-2023April 14, 2023 11:39 amThe Vietsch Foundation mourns the death of our dear friend and esteemed colleague Andrew Cormack, who has left us too early yesterday. Andrew has been a member of the Board of Trustees since the 6th of June 2016, and we were blessed with his competence, dedication and invaluable contributions. He waRead More
Download the “Open Source Law, Policy and Practice” bookMarch 7, 2023 2:36 pmThe brand new, second edition of “Open Source Law, Policy and Practice”, edited by Amanda Brock is available for download, Open Access, as well as in printed format by Oxford University Press at this OUP link. Written by world leading Open Source and legal experts, this new edition of OpRead More
Victor Reijs joins the Board of Trustees of the Vietsch FoundationMarch 7, 2023 1:58 pmAs of 1 January 2023 the Board of Trustees has a new member at large. The Vietsch Foundation is delighed to welcome Victor Reijs amongst its members. Victor Reijs retired in 2021 and has a long track record working for KPN Telecom Research, SURFnet, HEAnet and SIDN. During his carreer he was involveRead More
ADDITIONAL projectJanuary 10, 2023 11:31 amFunded in 2022 – A grant to support “Advanced Deep Learning-based Analysis of Network Traffic Generated by Communication-and-Collaboration Apps used in COVID-19 pandemic” (ADDITIONAL) was awarded in 2022 to the CINI research unit at the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy. The project paRead More
Open Source Law, Policy and Practice, book launchOctober 31, 2022 5:03 pm31 October 2022 Open Source Software has seen mass adoption in the last decade to potentially form the majority of software today. It is realised through legal instruments, private law agreements, licences, governance, and community norms all of which lead to the sharing of Intellectual Property andRead More
MARLIN ProjectJuly 29, 2022 7:14 amFunded in 2022 – The Vietsch Foundation announces a new grant to fund the MARLIN project, to support “Reliable user identification to grant access to local resources as well as secure remote access to scientific content”. The project was relayed to the Vietsch Foundation by GÉANT through its Read More
eduDNS project delivered and in operationJuly 28, 2022 5:18 pmThe eduDNS project ended succesfully in July 2022, we are happy to publish this final news item with permission from the project partners. eduDNS – Final report In the eduDNS project, a Dynamic DNS service for academic users has been developed, deployed and delivered in full operation. ThRead More