Our Story

  • Establishment of RASH 7/4/2007 with an Intergovernmental Agreement twins Italy and Albanian ratified from the Albanian Parliament

  • Creation of RASH with DCM nr.236 dt.9/3/2009 as an Interuniversity Service Center & Telematic network

  • 2011 signature of collaboration contract from MoES and CINECA to support the build of new organisation 

  • 2011 RASH register as member of RIPE NCC

  • 2012 start the piloting at public universities the student secretary management platform

  • 2012 voting in GA pro RASH as a new full member of TERENA Association (Future GEANT Association)  

  • 2016 RASH statup the building of the albanian academic backbone and MAN of Tirana 

  • 2016 RASH offer the first national SW solution in education, the platform U-Albania for the enrollmnet of students in HE system 

  • 2017 RASH start the physical connection to GEANT the european Reserch & Education Netwok, RASH was accepted from the Europan Commision as partner in the GN4-2 project

  • 8/11/2017 Signature of the Agreement of all 12th Albanian public universities and the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth (MESY) to create an Inter-institutional Research and Development Center for ICT. 

  • RASH reorganized with DCM nr.88 dt.14/2/2018 initiated from the Agreement of 12th Rectors of Albanian public universities and the Minister of Education, Sport and Youth (MESY).

  • 2018 constituition of RASH directional organs the General Assembly, the Governance Board and the election of General Director.

  • 2025 The Albanian Academic Network (RASH) becomes a Full Member of the EUNIS (European University Information Systems) organization. This has been made possible after considering and assessing the fulfillment by RASH of the criteria set out in the EUNIS Statute.