The GWDG Academy course program for the second half of 2021 has now been published. Due to the current Corona situation, almost all courses will take place in a suitable online format rather than as presence courses, as has been the case in previous months. You can find more information about this at the respective courses. You can still register for our courses as usual. All registered participants will receive the necessary technical information for taking part in the respective courses in good time after the registration deadline.

The GWDG starts the test phase of its new live-streaming platform which can be used e.g. to broadcast lectures, conferences or other live-events to large audience. This service offers an alternative to video conferencing for particularly large event.

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Also in the second funding round of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), Göttingen Campus institutions are participating in a total of five new consortia. This was announced today by the Joint Science Conference of the Federal and State Governments (GWK). In the first funding round last October, five Göttingen participations were also included. At the suggestion of the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII), the GWK launched the NFDI as a funding line to systematically develop, sustainably secure and make accessible data from science and research. Around 85 million euros

Today, the University of Göttingen has handed over its currently largest new building project to the future users: After a symbolic handover of the keys, the GWDG is now moving into the new joint data center for the Göttingen science location on the North Campus. In addition to the University and the GWDG, the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Max Planck Society are also participating. In the future, the data center will provide all participating institutions with additional computing and storage capacities for research, teaching, collaborative work, patient care and

As announced in the May issue of the GWDG News, we redesigned our survey service, which is now available with enhanced functionality:

• Selfservice for registration
• Single Sign On with AcademicID
• Improved performance and prevention against outages
• Scalable architecture

You’ll find our LimeSurvey service as of today, Wednesday, 30/06/2021, at this address: https://survey.academiccloud.de

From here, you’ll be redirected to the login page of AcademicCloud where you log in with your usual credentials directly or via Federated Login. At first login your LimeSurvey account will be