Program of the Fiber Link Moldova-Romania Inauguration event


PROGRAMM
of the Fiber Link Moldova-Romania Inauguration event
(Chisinau, Moldova, 20-21 May 2010)

 

Thursday, 20 May 2010

 

8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 11:00





Conference room

Opening Ceremony

Official opening session in cooperation with “International Conference on Telecommunications, Electronics and Informatics”-ICTEI 2010:

Prof., acad. Ion BOSTAN, Rector of the Technical University of Moldova, Chairman of Universities rectors’ of Moldova Council, RENAM co-chairman;
Mr. Mihai GHIMPU, President of the Republic of Moldova
Mr. Vlad FILAT, Prime-minister  of the Republic of Moldova
Prof., acad. Gheorghe DUCA, President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova;


  • Minister of Information Technologies and Communication of the Republic of Moldova;
  • Minister of Education of Moldova;

Mrs. Corina FUSU, Head of the Committee on Culture, Education, Research, Youth, Sports, and Mass Media of the Parliament of Moldova;
Prof., Gheorghe Ciocanu, President of RENAM Council, Rector of the State University of Moldova;
Prof., acad. Andrei ANDRIES, Co-chairman and General Director of RENAM; Mr. Alexandru MACHEDON - General director of StarNet; Dr. Erich PEPLOW, NATO project co-director; Dr. Octavian RUSU, NATO project co-director; Dr. Yannis MITSOS, EC SEE-GRID-SCI project – channel opening ceremony;

 

Welcome speeches of:


  • Dr. Chris DE WISPELAERE, Director of Projects, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO.

  • Mr. Wim JANSEN, European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General;
11:00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00  

The First Plenary Session:

Session`s Chairs: Mr. Karel VIETSCH (TERENA), dr. Peter BOGATENCOV (RENAM)
  1. Mr. Wim JANSEN, European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General, GÉANT & eInfrastructures “European policies for e-Infrastructures”.
  2. Dr. Chris DE WISPELAERE, Director of Projects, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO. “The NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme”.
  3. Prof., acad. Andrei ANDRIES (RENAM), “RENAM - Research and Educational Network of Moldova”.
  4. Dr. Erich PEPLOW (NATO project co-director), “Story of RENAM - the Peoples Behind”.
  5. Dr. Octavian RUSU, (NATO project co-director), “RoEduNet - RENAM cooperation: past and future”.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:30




Room 205

The second Plenary Session:

Session`s Chairs: Dr. Octavian RUSU (RoEduNet), dr. Grigore SECRIERU (RENAM)
  1. Mr. Karel VIETSCH (TERENA), "The Case for NRENs and European collaboration in research networking".
  2. Dr. John CHEVERS (DANTE), "GÉANT and the benefits of international research networks".
  3. Dr. Yannis MITSOS (GRNet, Greece), “Leveraging the eInfrastructure efforts in South-East Europe".
  4. Prof. Andrey MENDKOVITCH (CEENet), "CEENet. 15 years on Service to NRENs of Central and Eastern Europe".
  5. Dr. Gabriel NEAGU (e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, Romania), “Current trends in the e-Infrastructure development at the European level".
  6. Mr. Igor COJOCARU (Academy of Sciences of Moldova), “e-Infrastructure Development  in  Moldova  based  on  SEERA-EI recommendations”.
  7. Dr. Boris HANCU, Dr. Florin DAMIAN (State University of Moldova) “Cluster of CECMI, scope and solutions of USM cluster utilization in NREN of Moldova”.
  8. Mr. Alexandru BULBOACA, Chief of Data Communication Dept., Felix Telecom S.A. (Romania) “Serving Research and Education (R&E) networks through Collaboration and Innovation delivered with Optical +Ethernet Convergence - Felix Telecom In Partnership with Ciena”.
18:00 – 21:00 Cultural event (optional excursion to Wine Town “Milestii Mici”)

 

Friday, 21 May 2010
Program of visits:

 

9:00 Pick-up of the Event participants
9:30 – 11:00

Visit to the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication

(with invitation of ANRCETI General Director);
11.15 – 12.15 Visit to the Government of Moldova (negotiation of results and prospects of NREN cooperation with Governmental informational and communicational system);
12.15 – 12.30 Visit to the Central Communication node of RENAM (in the Technical University of Moldova);
12.45 – 13.30 Visit to StarNet Ltd. Company - presentation of results of optical infrastructure Moldova-Romania development.
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 Participants departures