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EUNIS 2016 Congress
2016-06-08 - 2016-06-10 | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
EUNIS 2016 will be held at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 8-10 June 2016.
CROSSROADS WHERE THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE
Registration for the Congress is available here and the programme here.

Pre-Congress IT Leaders Forum
2016-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
During the 2016 Congress in Thessaloniki, EUNIS will launch a new initiative dedicated to IT Leaders in Higher Education across Europe: the EUNIS IT Leaders Forum. IT Directors, CIOs and Heads of IT Departments are invited to join this exclusive Forum. It will be an excellent opportunity to learn about and discuss their roles, concerns and challenges across Europe and to share their experience and ideas. As well as offering excellent networking opportunities, the IT Leaders Forum will include presentations on the latest EUNIS’ activities that are specifically designed to support the decision making processes. The joint EDUCAUSE/JISC joint publication Defining the Strategic IT Leader and the EUNIS Board’s ideas on how to strengthen the European IT Leaders Community will also be articulated and discussed. More information here.

Pre-Congress Seminar on Business Intelligence and Data Mining – Master class
2016-06-07 13:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
EUNIS 2016 pre-congress Seminar on Business Intelligence and Data Mining, organized by the EUNIS Business Intelligence Task Force. The Seminar on Business Intelligence and Data Mining comprises two master classes on the topics of Data Mining and Data Visualization. More information here.

Pre-Congress Informal evangelist meeting on paperless student mobility
2016-06-07 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
We have the pleasure to invite you to an informal meeting for those working on or interested in digitalizing student mobility. More information here.

Pre-Congress E-Learning Task Force workshop: Operating in a Digital Framework
2016-06-07 10:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
More information on the workshop and the registration is available here

EUNIS 2016 BencHEIT pre-Congress workshop
2016-06-07 | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
A preliminary BencHEIT workshop programme is ready, and the registration is already open. The workshop is free of charge for the EUNIS members. Please come and listen to interesting presentations, and participate in inspiring discussions!
Programme:
· Introduction for newcomers
· National processes: how are different countries collecting and evaluating data?
· Transnational benchmarking; finding common indicators
· Benchmarking before and after a merger, differences and benefits
· Comparison between peers
· Most important indicators for CIOs
Register for the workshop here!

Webinar on Portal and Mobile
2016-06-01 13:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Stockholm)
Webinar on Portal and Mobile – a combined strategy to improve student engagement and retention
We invite you to join the webinar on Portal and Mobile – a combined strategy to improve student engagement and retention presented by Collabco who develop the myday user portal.

Would you like to find out how our myday student portal can help make your student’s days easier? Attend our webinar to find out more about our product and the many forward thinking universities who are using our product to facilitate this. Collabco are also delighted to be attending the EUNIS Annual Congress in Thessaloniki and hope to speak to you there as well.
The EUNIS webinar will be presented by Lisa Drakonaki, who works with academia to improve the user experience on behalf of Collabco.
Date: the 1st of June at 1 pm CET Duration: 30 minutes plus questions.
Presenter: Lisa Drakonaki, Collabco
Register for the webinar here. You will get the invitation two days prior to the event.

Webinar: University CIO reveals secret to IT Visibility
2016-04-21 14:00 - 14:40 (Europe/Stockholm)
While traditional models of the IT Service Desk remain focused solely on Incident and Reactive Problem Management, analysts will continue to manage down queues by addressing a single incident at a time; escalating problems only when they have affected a large number of customers. Using end user analytics LSHTM focus on what real matters – the end user.
Jon Faulkner, CIO, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will focus on changing the questions asked:

Are users reporting any issues? becomes Are users experiencing any issues?
What is the status of our tickets? becomes What is the status of our network and services?
How many tickets have we resolved today? becomes How many tickets have we prevented today?

REGISTER for the webinar here. You will get the link to the webinar two days prior to the event.

Eunis 2016 Rectors' Conference
2016-04-14 - 2016-04-16 | Jagiellonian University, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
This Conference entitled: Smart European University is a continuation of the previous ones (Prague, Helsinki) which have attracted many Rectors and decision makers from various Universities. The main goal of the Kraków Conference is to explain in which way IT may help European Universities in the changing landscape, through addressing the main challenges: decreasing number of young people in Europe, hard competition of US and Asian Universities, globalization, rapid development of mobile devices reshaping approach to learning and knowledge acquisition.

Benchmarking launch session
2016-01-22 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
EUNIS BencHEIT Task Force invites you to join the next round of benchmarking launch session on:
Friday, 22nd January 2016, 2 pm UTC (duration approx. 1 hour) (calculate the time in your country)
The video meeting is a great opportunity to hear the latest news and get important information about the benchmarking tools and process. You will also have the chance to ask questions, and get valuable tips from other benchmarking professionals!
Join the session here
Programme:

BencHEIT, what is it and why it is important? Kurt Gammelgaard Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark
First timer’s insight to the process. What did I learn about my organization and how did I use the results? Yiannis Salmatzidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Comparison of my organization against others. Useful tips. Ole Langfeldt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The BM timetable, working space. What can you expect from the BM project group? Yvonne Kivi, University of Helsinki
Excel sheets and how to use them. Teemu Seesto, Network of Finnish Universities’ Chief IT Officers

The session will be a video meeting over Skype. It is to be recorded, so it can also be watched later.
If you have any comments or questions, please don´t hesitate to contact us on: bm-pg@eunis.org

Webinar on using virtualization to improve the student experience
2015-12-15 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
Sponsored webinar: Applications Anywhere – what, why, how?
The mission of EUNIS is to help member institutions develop their IT landscape by sharing experiences and working together. Besides the main events organised by EUNIS throughout the year and the activities of our Task Forces, starting from this year we decided to add another opportunity for our members to share their experiences and best practices, promoting and organising Webinars in collaboration with our partners. The first webinar will be presented by University of Wolverhampton in cooperation with Software2.
Date: the 15th of December at 14:00 CET for 30 minutes
Presenter: Nici Cooper, Asst Director, University of Wolverhampton
Register: Online
Overview: As part of a Digital Campus Transformational Change, Wolverhampton University aim to deploy software applications to staff and students anywhere, on-demand. With a large software portfolio and silo based structure the challenge to give better access to software was large.
The webinar will cover how Wolverhampton University answered the following;
– How to deliver a better experience for everyone
– How to address the issues of application virtualization
– How to ensure a successful virtualization project
There will be an opportunity to ask questions for around 10 minute after the webinar.
If you are interested, please register here to receive an invitation.

EUNIS workshop on Higher Education IT benchmarking
2015-11-13 | Poblenou Campus of the Pompeu Fabra University (Tanger Building), Roc Boronat, 138, Barcelona, 08018, Spain
2015 Workshop on Higher Education IT benchmarking, organised by the EUNIS BencHEIT Task Force: the 13th of November 2015, at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
The workshop will be an opportunity for networking, discussion and sharing experiences. BencHEIT is the first initiative that aims at creating a survey that can be meaningful and useful in the whole European higher education sector. In order to reach the important goal of building up a tool to allow the comparison of costs and strategies related to IT activities among different European countries, Bencheit needs your contribution and expertise.
The final agenda, registration and more information here…
If you have any questions, or want to share ideas on topics you would like to discuss with us, please send an email to bm-pg@eunis.org.
Please REGISTER below by 30.10.2015

EUNIS Annual congress 2015
2015-06-10 08:00 - 2015-06-12 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Abertay University, Dundee, United Kingdom
This year’s congress is taking place in Dundee, Scotland at Abertay University on the 10th to 12th of June.

Interoperability (RS3G) Task Force workshop
2015-06-09 14:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Abertay University, Dundee, United Kingdom
Connecting to STORK2.0 for interoperability among Europeans Universities
The workshop will focus on offering a practical view of the potential applications of the STORK 2.0 infrastructure, and the benefits derived from the connection of services and attribute providers. The workshop will guide the assistants through the process of connection, offering an insight on the main issues that may be encountered, showing the capabilities of the infrastructure and proving its simplicity by performing live connection of a service to the infrastructure during the workshop.
The workshop will include both technical and administrative aspects of the infrastructure, and will also go through the process required by institutions belonging to MS not directly involved in the project for joining the infrastructure.
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E-Learning Task Force workshop
2015-06-09 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Abertay University, Dundee, United Kingdom
The workshop will explore how technology can be used to enhance assessment and feedback activities and streamline associated administration and how we might make use of assessment data to improve learning. We will look at some national initiatives exploring the workflows associated with assessment from a range of perspectives including pedagogy, business processes, supporting systems, legal and organisational issues. We will hear from projects offering practical solutions to common problems. There will be an opportunity to talk about current developments with system suppliers. We will investigate how the use of data from assessment processes in various forms of ‘assessment analytics’ might better support learning and teaching practice.
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EUNIS BI Task Force
2015-05-20 | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
The EUNIS BI Task Force will participate in an event in Spain dedicated to Institutional Intelligence in Universities, organized by CRUE-TIC.

The event will take place at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, on May 20th. More information is available here

BENCHEIT Task force workshop in Bologna
2014-12-01 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Excelsior Bologna Hotel, Viale Pietramellara, 51, Bologna, 40121, Italy
Thank you for participating in the BencHEIT Task force workshop.
Programme (download as PDF)
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EUNIS Board meeting
2014-11-07 10:00 - 2014-11-08 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

EUNIS2014
2014-06-11 08:00 - 2014-06-13 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
EUNIS annual congress

EUNIS e-Learning Task Force Workshop
2014-04-28 12:00 - 2014-04-29 13:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Casa Convalescencia, Calle de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171, Barcelona, Spain
Booking deadline February 22nd
Note:

The workshop is only open to those whose organisations are paid up members of EUNIS
The workshop will run from 13.00 on 28 April (following lunch at 12.00) to 13.00 on April 29
Lunch will be provided free of charge on both days if pre-booked
Dinner on 28 April is optional (25 euros per head payable in cash – receipts will be provided)
Places are limited to 30 and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Although the workshop is free to attend, administrative and catering costs mean we will have to charge a fee of 75 euros for non-attendance.

See the provisional programme here

Rectors' Conference 2014
2014-04-03 08:00 - 2014-04-05 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Helsinki and Espoo, Espoo, Finland

BI Task Force Conference
2014-03-06 09:30 - 2014-03-07 16:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | AMUE, 103, boulevard Saint-Michel – Paris 5ème, Paris, France
Theme: “Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses in European Universities” on results of the European “BI Maturity Level Survey”, and best practice presentations by European Universities.
Organized by AMUE, CINECA and SIGMA, with keynote speakers from New York University and University of Bologna.
Note: Registration is free for EUNIS members, but please notice the room is limited to 100 attendees. Hence, only the first 100 registrations will be honored.
The BI event is for EUNIS members only. AMUE, CINECA, SIGMA communities will be accepted as well. Non-member scholars could apply at the end of February for 200 Euro/person if some seats remain vacant.
The dinner location will depend on the number of guests. The price will be around 25 Euro, plus wines.
EUNIS BITF Conference Programme Paris March 6-7

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Bencheit Task Force workshop
2013-12-04 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | AMUE, 103, boulevard Saint-Michel – Paris 5ème, Paris, France
Theme: “How to implement European wide core indicator”
Free registration at http://www.bencheit.info/workshop2013.html
