As announced in the May issue of the GWDG News, we redesigned our survey service, which is now available with enhanced functionality:

• Selfservice for registration
• Single Sign On with AcademicID
• Improved performance and prevention against outages
• Scalable architecture

You’ll find our LimeSurvey service as of today, Wednesday, 30/06/2021, at this address: https://survey.academiccloud.de

From here, you’ll be redirected to the login page of AcademicCloud where you log in with your usual credentials directly or via Federated Login. At first login your LimeSurvey account will be

In order to develop a federal technical infrastructure for the establishment of a digital education space, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the development of prototypes for a digital education platform as part of the Digital Education Initiative. This education platform is intended to act as a hub and to integrate education platforms and offerings nationwide via interfaces, establish common standards, and facilitate access to education in all phases of lifelong learning. The first prototype for such a platform is being developed by a network that began its work

The GWDG has strengthened itself in the area of High-Performance Computing (HPC). Together with the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, a new W2 professorship for HPC was established last fall, which at the same time also fulfills the tasks of the deputy head at the GWDG with a focus on HPC. We are pleased that Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel from the University of Reading in England has accepted the call to this professorship as of June 1, 2021.

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Next Monday, June 21, 2021, starting at 7:30 p.m., there will be a virtual discussion event with the candidates for the office of Lord Mayor of Göttingen. What do the candidates for the office of Lord Mayor of Göttingen think about the “City that creates knowledge”? What plans do they have for strengthening and securing Göttingen as a location for science? This is what the members of the Working Group Science/Universities and Göttingen Campus will ask the candidates and invite all interested parties to participate in the virtual discussion event. Pre-registration is not required.

At the end of June 30, 2021, the GWDG will discontinue its USENET service "news.gwdg.de". The USENET service originated in the late 1970s well before the World Wide Web (WWW) and was used for text-oriented technical discussions. For many years, however, the use of USENET has been in sharp decline, and discussions have shifted to forums on the WWW. Therefore, after decades, the GWDG will discontinue support of USENET.

In the course of a technical restructuring, the name "news.gwdg.de" will be used in the future to provide operational reports and news from the GWDG.