Annual overview 2025

Milestone 1

Digitally stronger together! 120 institutions – that’s the SURF cooperative

120

institutions are collaborating on digital progress

Over 10.000 professionals shared their knowledge at around 200 events

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Milestone 2

The combined knowledge and innovative strength of our members

8 of the 11

LSRI proposals approved by NWO include participation by SURF

Smart campus – Vision for an efficient and sustainable campus

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Milestone 3

Procuring ICT and content together – only on the best terms

20 million

savings in the field of compliance

Organisation of 25 purchasing processes in 2025

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Milestone 4

Connected together – now and in the future, worldwide

1,2 Tbit/s

data transfer on long-distance network

SURF and ASTRON realise 400G connection with OpenZR+

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Milestone 5

Powerful computing for ambitious research and education

Quantum computer

tender launched in the Netherlands

Netherlands gets AI factory

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Milestone 6

Sharing data through open science – this is how we do it

€230.000

awarded by Géant to digital research environment initiative

Trends in data management

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Milestone 7

Reliable authentication – more important than ever!

2 billion

logins on SURFconext

We welcomed the 100,000th eduID user

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Milestone 8

Strengthening our digital resilience

90 institutions

conduct sector-wide crisis exercise

Cyber Threat Assessment: malware and phishing remain the biggest threats, AI is advancing

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Milestone 9

Flexible education – the answer to rapid change

Onderwijsdagen 2025

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Digitally

safer more accessible more reliable more independent more innovative smarter more progressive stronger safer

together