Greek Academic Network

The Greek Universities Network (GUnet) is a non-profit civil company founded in September 2000. GUnet’s members are all the Universities in Greece. The mission of the company is to promote, facilitate and coordinate the use of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT), services and applications in the Greek academic community for supporting the Greek higher education institutes in their mission and in general, research and education in Greece.

More specifically, GUnet’s aims include the following:

The development, support and management of the academic network of all Universities in Greece.
The coordination of the diffusion, promotion and development of advanced network services and applications in the academic and research community of the country,
The provision of advanced ICT and e-learning services to its members and third parties (institutes, foundations, industry).
The participation in R&D projects in the areas of networking and e-learning technologies, services and applications aiming at maintaining the Greek academic network at the stateof-the-art.
The collaboration with respective academic, research and educational networks of other countries.

Since 2012, GUnet coordinates the development of OpenCourseWare and open educational resources by its members at the national level.
GUnet was the winner of the 2016 Creative Innovation Award given by the Opencourseware Consortium (ocwconsortium.org) to recognise outstanding innovations that bring a new approach to Open Education.