The research project QUANDA, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) and in which GWDG is participating together with five partners from academia and industry, has now been launched. QUANDA is funded as part of the QC Next technology program and, as a satellite project, is closely linked to the nationwide lead project FullStaQD. FullStaQD is developing an open, modular software architecture that facilitates access to quantum computers and enables their integration into existing computing environments.

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As expected, the current certificate for the GWDG’s eduroam server will expire in early December. The GWDG will therefore discontinue support for old configurations as of December 1, 2026. We are currently in the transition phase, as the new configuration is already available to you and you can switch your devices over immediately. If you still wish to use your device with the old configuration from December onward, you will no longer be able to connect to the eduroam Wi-Fi network.

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On Friday, November 13, 2026, the GWDG, together with partners from academia and the city, invites you to the KI.Connect event at the Göttingen Computing Center. The event brings together stakeholders from academia, business, politics, and society to explore current developments, potential applications, and challenges in the field of artificial intelligence. Presentations, workshops, and panel discussions will provide insights into various areas of application and foster exchange and networking among participants.

For more information and to register:

The September/October issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Security Operations – Current Challenges and Measures for Secure IT Service Operations
• GÉANT TCS – PKI Provider HARICA
• Natural-Language Corpus Search in the Text+ AI Assistant
• Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: More than just Digital Documentation
• 50th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop at the GWDG

-> Click here for the GWDG News 9-10/2026.

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We are looking to recruit various staff members to join the working group “Computing” (AG C) as soon as possible:

• Wirtschaftsinformatiker*in im Vertrieb (m/w/d)
• Generative AI Developer (m/f/d)
• Storage Expert (m/f/d)
• HPC-Leistungs- und Datenmanagement-Ingenieur*in (m/w/d)
• Datenschutzmanager*innen (m/w/d)

The closing date for applications is 8 November 2026.