[Community] TF-EDU Virtual Meeting on 9 June

[Effah Amponsah]

Dear Community,

Please see announcement below from TF-EDU
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We invite you to the 4th TF-EDU virtual meeting entitled "Finding the 
balance”. This meeting will take the form of a mini-conference and a 
small collective and individual learning journey.

The intention of this meeting is to collectively and individually 
reflect on the role of NRENs in supporting education, taking into 
account:

- our experiences related to lockdown and online transitioning to 
working and studying from home
- looking at the immediate future (3-6 months from now) and deciding on 
the next steps
- looking at the long term impact on NRENs supporting remote education

Our interest is to explore the role of NRENs in supporting education 
from the national and institutional point of you (support to 
universities, schools; scaling up and scaling down contracts and 
procurement) to individual-level (services and activities for teachers 
and students, pre, during and post-pandemic).

The aim of the mini-conference is to create the space for collective and 
self-reflection, learning from the past few months while looking at the 
future, hopefully finding the balance between newly discovered solutions 
and obsolete practices. In doing that we will look for:

1. newly discovered processes, goals, tools and needs that we value and 
want to take with us into the future;
2. the obsolete or obstacle-creating practices that we are willing to 
let go.

IMPORTANT: We are inviting you to join the co-creation of the agenda, by 
proposing:

- Lightning talks (5 min, 1-2 slides)
- Topics for conversations that you would love to host as part of the 
community sessions (20 min)

You can submit your topics/lightning talks no later than 5th of June, 
noon, by adding your proposal to: 
https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148080408
If you have some technical issues, please send your submission to 
tf-edu-sc at lists.geant.org .

Requirement for submission: All submission should be in line of the area 
of educational activities, services and technologies. Submitters should 
be prepared to present/host during the virtual mini-conference: 
facilitate discussions, prepare to summarize it (E.g. some notes as 
conclusions, outcomes and/or follow up points).

Please note that the TF-EDU SC is there to help you to prepare for your 
sessions.

Please find the outline of the agenda here:
https://wiki.geant.org/display/NE/4th+TF-EDU+virtual+mini+conference

Save the date:
June, 9th, 2020.
11am-4pm CEST / 9am GMT/UTC

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Effah Amponsah
Communication & Marketing Officer,
WACREN
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