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SURF Members' Council highlights 8 October

This time, the SURF Members’ Council meeting took place during the SURF Summit, the annual event for executives, coordinating SURF contacts (CSCs), and other stakeholders. Topics discussed included…

News 16 October 2025

Hal van de UvA met hangende en staande planten

Explore Next-Generation AI, Storage, and HPC Solutions with SURF’s Expanded Exploration Platform

The Experimental Technologies Platform at SURF will be expanded, offering new opportunities to test state-of-the-art storage and computing solutions. Our goal is to give Dutch researchers, developers…

News 02 September 2025
DPIA EduGenAI

Working on safe and responsible AI in education

Together with Npuls, we are working on EduGenAI: a platform that enables the safe and responsible use of generative AI in higher education. We commissioned a data protection impact assessment (DPIA)…

News 01 September 2025
Contribute your ideas to the Dutch Open Science Infrastructure

The Netherlands is working on a nationwide infrastructure for open science, to make it easier and more attractive for researchers and institutions to share their knowledge. The strategic plan…

News 26 August 2025
Elections 2025

Invest in digital infrastructure as the foundation for knowledge, innovation and earning capacity

SURF calls on political parties to invest structurally in digital infrastructures for research and education. These infrastructures are the foundation of our knowledge economy and strengthen both the…

News 17 July 2025
The best of SURF for your summer reading and listening list

It's almost summer holidays, so finally time to catch up on reading and listening! We have curated the best articles, interviews and podcasts from surf.nl that you may have missed out on over the…

News 10 July 2025
Improved logistics for testing and examination thanks to new OOAPI version

OOAPI has been upgraded: it is now possible to automate the logistics of the testing and examination process. The Open Education API is an open standard for sharing education data. The upgrade to…

News 09 July 2025
Greater independence, sustainability and cooperation

SURF moves network core from private business to member organisation

SURF is moving a significant part of its network from a commercial data centre to the data centre of Nikhef, one of our cooperative members and scientific partners. The move is in line with the…

News 08 July 2025
Building flexible and open education together

Four education services now structurally available for mbo, hbo and wo

An important step for higher education: the SURF services edubadges, SURFeduhub, edusources and SURFsharekit are now structurally available via the sector service packages for senior secondary…

News 08 July 2025