EU NEIGHBOURS. Between 25 and 26 September, the Armenian capital of Yerevan hosted the 4th Eastern Partnership E-infrastructures Conference – EaPEC 2019.
Organised by the EU-funded Eastern Partnership Connect (EaPConnect) project and themed ‘Connecting with Culture,’ the event started with a ‘distributed’ concert for invited guests, with choirs in Yerevan and in Italy performing together in real-time despite a distance of around 5,000 km.
Connected by dedicated high-capacity research and education networks combined with ‘LoLa’ low latency data transmission technology, this was the first concert of its kind in Armenia.
‘LoLa’ technology was introduced in Armenia through the EaPConnect project. It was developed by Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini from Trieste, Italy.
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The EaPEC 2019 event featured a number of high-level speakers. A celebratory cake was cut to mark several significant anniversaries: 10 years of the Eastern Partnership, 20 years of EaPConnect partners from Georgia and Moldova, and 25 years of the EaPEC 2019 host ASNET-AM successfully serving the Armenian research and education community.
The EaPConnect project aims to create a regional research and education network in the EU’s Eastern Partner countries, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The overall objective is to decrease the digital divide, improve intra-regional connectivity and facilitate the participation of local scientists, students and academics in global research and education collaborations.
