The RIPE (Rseaux IP Europens) Network Coordination Center (NCC) has recently arranged the seventh in a series of interactive conferences and workshops at 3 colleges in the Levant - Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, Al-Balqa and Yarmouk Colleges in Jordan. The workshops are part of the charitable organisation's commitment to engaging the academia in enhancing their understanding of subjects connected to the technical basics that enable the Internet to work and grow, such as the execution of Internet Method version 6 (IPv6), a global campaign to update the Internet sector.

Paul Rendek, Director of External Relations for the RIPE NCC said: "Our academic engagement initiative aims to promote teamwork with numerous scholastic organizations as part of our info awareness program with stakeholders relating to the current technical growths surrounding the Internet system. Our engagement with the colleges includes workshops and lectures for the students, in addition to assistance for faculty and university scientists via moneying their Internet jobs."

The Jordanian universities additionally discovered cooperation opportunities with the RIPE NCC to develop a specialist center for on the internet distance understanding. The RIPE NCC has expressed its readiness to work together in range understanding projects for various academic techniques, and its willingness to check out exactly how the university can benefit from several other solutions offered by RIPE NCC via training, talks and workshops specifically developed for students.

Dr. Ziad Al-Saad, Vice President for Academic Affairs of Yarmouk University, Yarmouk University, noted: "We are keen to strengthen teamwork with numerous educational and technological establishments to elevate the level of academic education in the university and sustain our efforts towards the e-learning and online correspondence course. We discussed the opportunity of developing a specialist facility for on-line range knowing, specifically due to globalisation using the Internet, and relocating towards a knowledge-based economic situation. We expect gaining from Internet services in the field of distance knowing in various academic disciplines."

Dr. Khalaf Khatatneh, Vice Dean of Royal prince Abdulrahman bin Ghazi University of Infotech at Balqa University, said: "We aim to join all training programs and workshops to enhance cooperation with numerous educational and technological organizations to more develop the university's scholastic system. We give thanks to and value RIPE's efforts in equipping students and researchers who want to display their job and research making use of the internet, in addition to utilize the services offered by RIPE in the field of learning, that properly sustain faculties to recognize the topics related to standard technical knowledge on exactly how the internet works."

The RIPE NCC additionally seized the day throughout these interactive conferences and workshops to present the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund and the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) to those curious about showcasing their Internet-related study. RACI offers financing for trainees and researchers to present their work in front of several of the leading technological numbers in the Internet world. Their job is additionally published on RIPE Labs for community feedback.

When it comes to those looking for fresh study subject ideas, the RIPE NCC directed them to RIPE Atlas - a global, open, dispersed Internet dimension platform - and RIPE NCC Hackathons, which supply a chance to function together with network operators, programmers, and the local Internet community in developing innovative new tools.

The RIPE NCC has a diverse online training course profile provided via the RIPE NCC Academy and on-line webinars. The RIPE NCC is presently working to satisfy the demands from universities and faculty members to create more e-learning components based on the topics talked about at these face-to-face sessions