GÉANT Association

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

50,000€ - 99,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

9

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    GÉANT Association   (GÉANT)

    EU Transparency Register

    435792917444-12 First registered on 21 May 2015

    Goals / Remit

    The GÉANT Association is the trusted partner for advanced R&E pan-European and global networking.
    The GÉANT Association is the partner of choice for a safe and secure information ecosystem for researchers, educators and students.
    The GÉANT Association is an acknowledged worldwide leader for developing and supporting R&E networking communities and global REN development.
    The GÉANT Association continually evolves key infrastructures and innovates and develops new services in order to fulfil the needs of R&E in a sustainable way.
    The GÉANT Association will ensure financial sustainability to the benefit of its members.
    The GÉANT Association is seen by the EU as an indispensable partner for their vision.
    The GÉANT Association forges relationships with other e-infra providers, Research Infrastructures and other stakeholders to the benefit of the R&E community.
    The GÉANT Association has an governance structure that is agile and benefits from the diversity of its membership.

    Main EU files targeted

    Horizon Europe 2023-24 Work Programmes (especially e-Infrastructures, Research Infrastructures, ICT), Digital Single Market - public consultations and legislative initiatives, especially European Cloud Initiative - European Open Science Cloud, EuroHPC, EuroQCI, The Global Gateway, Digital Decade & Digital Europe Programme.

    Address

    Head Office
    Hoekenrode 3
    Amsterdam 1102BR
    NETHERLANDS
    EU Office
    Hoekenrode 3
    Amsterdam 1102BR
    NETHERLANDS

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Mar 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Bram PEETERS 24 Jan 2024 23 Jan 2025
    Mr Hendrik IKE 05 Oct 2021 05 Oct 2022
    Mr Hendrik IKE 17 Sep 2019 17 Sep 2020

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Science|Business https://sciencebusiness.net/
    European Internet Forum https://www.internetforum.eu/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    50,000€ - 99,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant GN5-1 27,500,000€
    Grant GN5-IC1 5,000,000€
    Grant AfricaConnect & EaPConnect2 6,200,000€
    Grant Remaining H2020 / HE projects 1,900,000€

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    50,000€ - 99,999€

    Other financial info

    We clarify that EC funding relates to the funding recognised as income in the closed financial year and excludes any funding that may have been received to fund costs that will be included in future financial years.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Currently operating under the GÉANT FPA (Framework Partnership Agreement): GN5 Phase 1 (GÉANT project) - Grant Agreement No. 101100680; GN5 Phase IC1 (GÉANT project) - Grant Agreement No. 101086099

    Previous Project coordinator of: GN4 Phase 1; GN4 Phase 2 (GÉANT) project - Grant Agreement No. 731122 (GN4-2)​​ and GN4 Phase 3 (GÉANT) project - Grant Agreement No. 856726. GN4 Phase; 3N (GÉANT) project - Grant agreement No. 856728

    Also project coordinator of: AfricaCONNECT3, EaPConnect2.

    Project partner in: EOSC-Future, AARC-TREE DC4EU, SUBMERSE.

    For information about these projects, see www.geant.org.

    Other activities

    As requested by the EC Secretariat-General, the figures declared in sections 10 and 13c below relate to the activities listed in the first paragraph of section 9, and not to those listed in the second paragraph of section 9, which are not considered "influencing" activities.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    9 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

    • Date 16 Nov 2020 Location Brussels
      Subject Role of GÉANT to interconnect and serve the enhanced European Research Area, including the newly formed EPAs and the existing network of ESFRI-s, ERIC-s
      DG Research and Innovation
      Attending
      • Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
    • Date 27 Feb 2019 Location Brussels
      Subject Regional Development
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu
      Portfolio Regional Policy
      Attending
      • Corina Crețu (Commissioner)
    • Date 29 Jan 2019 Location Brussels
      Subject Open Science Cloud
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
      Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation
      Attending
      • Christiane Kirketerp De Viron (Cabinet member)
    • Date 28 Jan 2019 Location Brussels
      Subject eInfrastructures
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
      Portfolio Digital Economy and Society
      Attending
      • Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
    • Date 25 Jun 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject GEANT network and education
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics
      Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
      Attending
      • Jean-Philippe Gammel (Cabinet member)
    • Date 11 May 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Single Market, promotion of Internet Connectivity in local communities
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Roberto Viola (Director-General)
    • Date 11 May 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Single Market, promotion of Internet Connectivity in local communities
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Roberto Viola (Director-General)
    • Date 01 Feb 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Open science cloud, European Digital infrastructure
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Roberto Viola (Director-General)
    • Date 01 Feb 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Open science cloud, European Digital infrastructure
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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