Projects

Take a look at our services in development and other innovation projects, all made possible by our major funders.

Explore 26 projects

Collaborative solutions for higher education challenges
Identifying opportunities to optimise higher education operations through collaboration.
Project status: Ongoing project
Enhancing the tools for UK universities to improve student engagement
We’re upgrading our learning analytics platform, making it faster, more efficient and easier to use.
Project status: Just completed
Duration: 9 months
Project ended: 28 October 2024
Reviewing and enhancing our digital licensing service
We are transforming our licensing service to negotiate an increased range of vendor solutions across the digital estate of education organisations.
Project status: Ongoing project
Security operations centre (SOC): defending UK education and research
As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, we are taking a proactive stance to help our members navigate the challenges of protecting their valuable digital assets.
Our project partners:
Splunk,
Microsoft Defender,
CrowdStrike
Project status: Ongoing project
Accessible digital futures
Unlocking the potential for accessible digital and AI technologies in higher education (HE).
Our project partners:
Glenlead Centre
Project status: Ongoing project
Adopting and managing institutional rights retention policies
Supporting all higher education institutions in accelerating the implementation of institutional rights retention policies.
Project status: Ongoing project
Transforming education and research with 5G connectivity
Empowering education and research with the speed, reliability, and control with private 5G cellular networks
Our project partners:
University of Bristol,
BT
Project status: Ongoing project
Introducing smart building management with advanced analytics
Supporting the education sector with advanced building performance analytics for building management systems and connected Internet of things devices to provide real-time insights.
Our project partners:
University of Gloucestershire,
Newcastle College Group,
Bishop Grosseteste University,
Honeywell Forge
Project status: Ongoing project
Transforming education and research with hybrid cloud
Delivering computing resources from the heart of Janet, at the edge of your network, to power education and research.
Our project partners:
AWS,
Microsoft,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
Datastax,
Elastic
Project status: Ongoing project
Researching international and transnational education students' digital experience
Highlighting alternative perspectives and considering issues that might affect the digital experience of international and transnational education students.
Project status: Ongoing project
Expanding Janet's reach: Jisc's managed SD-WAN revolutionises UK education access
SD-WAN will build upon and extend our existing Janet infrastructure by providing more flexible, yet secure, access to the network via any internet bearer.
Our project partners:
BT,
Fortinet
Project status: Ongoing project
Implementing the UKRI open access policy
How we are supporting the research community to implement the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) open access policy.
Our project partners:
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Project status: Just completed
Duration: 2 years and 5 months
Project ended: 31 July 2024
Supporting research teams with the technology infrastructure they need
Accelerating the shift to flexible, sustainable and cost-effective digital research tools.
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 2 years and 1 month
Project ended: 21 February 2024
Extending eduroam: delivering eduroam through 4G and 5G cellular connectivity on a low-cost flexible device
Extending the eduroam network to off-campus teaching and learning spaces.
Project status: Ongoing project
Positive digital practices: supporting mental wellbeing
Focusing on part-time, commuter and distance learning students, this project created resources around the themes of positive learner identities, digital communities, and pedagogies.
Our project partners:
Student Minds,
The Open University,
University Mental Health Advisers Network (UMHAN),
University of Bradford,
University of Warwick
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 2 years
Project ended: 30 September 2023
Octopus.ac: Creating a new primary research record
Developing a ground-breaking global service which could positively disrupt research culture, making it easier to share work of all kinds.
Our project partners:
Octopus,
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI),
UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)
Project status: Just completed
Duration: 3 years
Project ended: 31 August 2024
Plan M: streamlining the bibliographic metadata marketplace
Engaging with stakeholders throughout the supply chain to streamline workflows, enhance usability and facilitate collaboration through leadership and a vision for change.
Project status: Ongoing project
Digitising the history of science in Great Britain
Creating a new major digital collection for teaching and research.
Our project partners:
Wiley,
British Science Association
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 2 years and 6 months
Project ended: 31 March 2022
A national persistent identifier research strategy
Delivering sector-wide cost savings through improved automation and technical integration.
Our project partners:
MoreBrains Cooperative
Project status: Just completed
Duration: 5 years and 3 months
Project ended: 15 October 2024
Building connectivity solutions to match your cloud strategy
Ensuring members and customers continue to get the best and most cost-effective connectivity.
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 3 years and 7 months
Project ended: 04 October 2022
Shaping the future of Janet
The Janet access programme will ensure that we continue to meet the needs of the UK education and research community.
Our project partners:
Axians,
Ciena,
SSE Enterprise Telecoms
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 5 years and 7 months
Project ended: 01 August 2023
Transforming our library support services
Developing a more effective, efficient and cohesive set of library services.
Our project partners:
Research Libraries UK,
SCONUL
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 4 years and 5 months
Project ended: 31 October 2020
Janet end-to-end performance initiative
Supporting user communities in making optimal use of the Janet Network for high-performance network applications.
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 8 years
Project ended: 31 March 2023
Transnational education (TNE)
Delivering support for both established and developing TNE activities.
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 8 years and 4 months
Project ended: 31 December 2021
Moonshot
A single, unifying technology that enables you to effectively manage and control access to a wide range of web and non-web services and applications.
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 7 years and 5 months
Project ended: 28 September 2020
National AAAI framework for researchers
A project in collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and research organisations to design a national authentication, authorisation and accounting e-infrastructure (AAAI) framework.
Our project partners:
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Project status: Archived project
Duration: 9 years and 10 months
Project ended: 01 November 2022