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TERENA Compendium of National Research and Education Networks In Europe /ServicesTable 3C.12.1 - continuedCountry NREN Support for specificgroups of users?EU/EFTA countriesDetailsNational User Conference,when?Estonia EENet no no noFinland Funet yes yes end of November yes http://www.csc.fi/english/funet/networkservices/usersupport/trainingGermany DFN no yes Two times per year yes e.g. Video Conferencing, Securitythere is a customerconference.Greece GRNET S.A. yes The aim of the user support service (Helpdesk) is yes Yearly yes http://to.grnet.gr/, http://vnoc.grnet.gr/g-tech/to handle problems concerning connection to theGRNET backbone network. Moreover, it monitorsits customer’s network stability and offers themservices like backup MX, secondary DNS, etc. GRNETmainly consists of, Hellenic academic institutions anddepartments of Hellenic public services.Hungary NIIF/HUNGARNET yes Special Sections of Hungarnet yes April or May each yes http://www.ipszilon.niif.hu/yearIceland RHnet no no yes www.icegrid2007.hi.is This is a recent development: Both a userconference and a Grid workshop in collaboration with the Universityof Iceland and colleagues at the Nordic NRENs.Ireland HEAnet yes Library group - LIR - see http://lirgroup.heanet.ie/ yes November yesItaly GARR yes Medical Scienceyes once per year yes http://www.garr.it/workshop/garr-b-workshop.shtmlArts and HumanitiesLatvia LANET nullLatvia SigmaNet yes We are open to support them, there have been somequeries, but nothing concrete.no yes We organise seminars on Grids and security issues.Lithuania LITNET yes yes “LITNET activitiesand developments “,AugustyesLuxembourg RESTENA no no noMalta UoM, IT Services yesNetherlands SURFnet yes Special attention and support (e.g. workshops) isgiven to researchers and teaching staff of connectedinstitutions.Training courses?URLDistance learning training courses for LITNET users,http://webct.liedm.lt/yes Every two years. yes http://www.surfnet.nl/nl/bijeenkomsten/75