Welcome to Knowledge Exchange

In 2005, four European organisations signed the collaborative agreement that brought the Knowledge Exchange inititative into being.  Knowledge Exchange is a  co-operative effort that intends to support the use and development of ICT infrastructure for higher education and research.

The Knowledge Exchange sponsoring partner organisations are:

• Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF) in Denmark
• German Research Foundation (DFG) in Germany
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom   
• SURFfoundation in the Netherlands

News

		PRESS RELEASE - Licensing beyond borders: international initiative licenses resources across four European countries International partnership will deliver savings as well as new business models to European education and research communities.
		Towards the future with federated access management Listen to the podcast of Masha Garibyan from JISC Access Management Outreach team.
		SPARC Europe Award 2008 to Leo Waaijers from SURFfoundation Dr Leo Waaijers has won the SPARC Europe Award 2008 for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The honourable award was presented to him last week during the fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communications at the University of Lund, Sweden.
		Traditional academic publishers on the move SURFfoundation have published the results of an inquiry of traditional, non Open Access publishers.
		SURFfoundation position on Open developments now available in English The SURFfoundation has recently issued a short message on its position with regard to developments as Open Standards, Open Source and Open Access to inform stakeholders and other parties.
		Knowledge Exchange Strategy Forum advises continued structural co-operation A shared view on future strategies for successful dialogue and collaboration hopes to pave the way for a formal decision by the summer of 2008 on the continuation of Knowledge Exchange for another three years.