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Naturalis maps itself using RAiDs

Naturalis Biodiversity Centre wants to gain a better understanding of its research work. The solution: research activity identifiers, or RAiDs. Data specialist Julián López Gordillo explains what this entails. “It was as if we’d thrown a huge stone into a pond.”

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This building block is important in the European education system

Open Education API broadens educational horizons

Imagine this: a student is taking a course at another faculty, institution or abroad. The results are automatically transferred, without any manual work, minimising the risk of errors. More and more institutions in vocational education (MBO), higher professional education (HBO) and university education (WO) are using the Open Education API (OEAPI) for this purpose. This standard makes collaboration between different systems easier.

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European computing power for Dutch science

Multilingual text-to-image model makes AI more inclusive

The national supercomputer Snellius is extremely powerful, but sometimes even more computing power is required. In such cases, SURF can provide capacity on a European scale. Dheeraj Varghese explains how he used the European supercomputer LUMI to develop an AI model that performs better than models from American and Chinese Big Tech companies.

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Benefits for students with eduXchange

Rapid enrolment in minor programmes

Three universities offering two hundred minor programmes: thanks to a pilot with eduXchange, the whole has become greater than the sum of its parts. Marja Verstelle and Iteke de Jong explain how this pilot within the LDE alliance ran and what it has delivered. They also share advice for other institutions, as everyone will soon be getting started with eduXchange.

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Flexible education with fewer barriers

This is how eduID plays a key role in Aventus’s digital ambitions

Students taking courses at another school or guest lecturers who need temporary access to systems: flexible education requires a smart and future-proof digital infrastructure. At Aventus vocational college, work on this is already well underway. IT architect Paul de Wit explains the key role played by eduID.

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From pilots to practice: Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences is using AI-hub to build safe and reliable AI agents

How can you responsibly train AI agents to search scientific sources without providing incorrect answers? Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences is conducting research into this. Researchers are using an AI-hub to ensure that language models are deployed reliably and responsibly. This enhances safety, privacy, compliance and transparency in education and research.

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How digital heritage was migrated to an open and transparent Kubernetes platform

Within the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE), many parties collaborate to make digital heritage visible and accessible. To achieve this, NDE develops software applications using containers on a Kubernetes infrastructure. This is how the NDE platform was migrated from an American cloud provider to SURF.

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Surgery with a supercomputer: hunting for the source of epilepsy

How do you find, in a complex network like the human brain, the one spot that causes a short circuit? For neurologist and professor Maeike Zijlmans (UMC Utrecht), this is part of her daily work. Together with Erasmus MC and SURF, she worked on a method that uses augmented reality (AR) to make invisible details visible during surgery.

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Unprecedented precision with new Time&Frequency technology

Vibrations and time transfer

SURF Time&Frequency gives researchers access to unprecedented measurement precision via fibre. University lecturer Jeroen Koelemeij, for instance, uses the service to measure atomic vibrations to twelve decimal places. The technology is also being investigated as a safer alternative to GPS. Read how it works in this real-life story.

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