Canada will be the first country in the world to possess a national network that is wholly fibre-optic based.

By 2020: developing and deploying a large scale European high performance computing, data storage and network infrastructure, including by acquiring two prototype next-generation supercomputers of which one would rank among the top three in the world, establishing a European big data centre, and upgrading the backbone network for research and innovation (GEANT).

In order to promote the EU as a centre of excellence in learning around the world, the strategy suggests increasing capacity for European studies in other countries by extending the network of EU studies centres and Jean Monnet chairs (positions for professors who specialise in European integration around the world).

Despite this, Canada has one of the most effective search and rescue systems in the world, which includes a network of three joint rescue coordination centres staffed jointly by the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Forces.

List of pilot European Reference Networks for Rare Diseases · Dyscerne: European Network of Centres of Reference for Dysmorphology · ECORN CF: European Centres of Reference Network for Cystic Fibrosis · PAAIR: Patient Associations and Alpha1 International Registry, · EPNET European Porphyria Network, · EN-RBD European Network of Rare Bleeding Disorders, Paediatric Hodgkins Lymphoma Network · NEUROPED: European Network of Reference for Rare Paediatric Neurological Diseases · EURO HISTIO NET: A reference network for Langerhans cell histiocytosis and associated syndrome in EU · TAG: Together Against Genodermatoses · CARE NMD: Dissemination ...[+++]and Implementation of the Standards of Care for Duchene muscular Dystrophy in Europe

What has happened here in Canada is that we are known worldwide as a shopping network for children, basically, those aged 14 and 15, because people around the world prey upon children of this age and know they cannot be charged here in Canada with a sexual crime.