Link to the photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40322661@N08/

This year, the traditional Council Recepcion will take place at the Auditorio de Galicia (700 mts. away from the Faculty of Medicine, venue of the congress). Before the dinner, the Consorcio de Santiago will be pleased to offer the participants a Classical Music Concert.

Gala dinner (Thursday, 25th of June)

As tradition would have it, a Gala Dinner will take place at the end of the second full day of the congress. This year in Santiago de Compostela, the EUNIS Conference 2009 Gala Dinner will be kindly hosted by Banco de Santander and will be held at the San Martin Pinario Monastery (100 mts. away from the Faculty of Medicine, venue of the congress).

Closing Lunch (Friday, 26th of June)

After the Congress, a Closing Lunch will be held at the San Francisco Hotel (25 mts. away from the Faculty of Medicine, venue of the congress).

Visit to the City of Culture

The project City of Culture is one of the most ambitious ever carried out in Galicia. It is still unfinished, but it is guaranteed to change the face of the city of Santiago de Compostela just as the Guggengheim changed Bilbao.

This visit is based on a minimum number of participants and only if this number is achieved the visit will take place. The visit day will be decided upon the group formation.

Visit to the roofs of the Cathedral of Santiago Compostela

During the tour we will visit the most important rooms of Xelmírez Palace (the old bishop’s residence) and the roofs of the Cathedral. Inside the Palace, visitors will enjoy the “Hall of Ceremonies”, one of the most beautiful and best known medieval civil building in Spain.

The roofs of the church are made of granite and take form of steps. During the visit, the group will walk around the around the cathedral roof and enjoy the views and from there, people may enjoy the views across the surrounding squares, streets and the views of the historic mountain that surround the street.

Visitors will be accompanied by a guide, who will focus on aspects of culture, art and history among others. Visits will be a means to understand the city and its heritage from a new angle.

This visit is based on a minimum number of participants and only if this number is achieved the visit will take place. The visit day will be decided upon the group formation.

Visit to Galicia Dixital

The Galician Government is very much aware of the importance of New Information Technology in the field of communications and have helped to place the exhibition “galiciadixital” on the Internet in order to keep pace with a World in permanente evolution.

This visit is based on a minimum number of participants and only if this number is achieved the visit will take place. The visit day will be decided upon the group formation.

A Walk through the History of the University of Santiago de Compostela

This one and a half hour journey will take visitorsto the emblematic library America, the lecture rooms of the Faculty of Geography and History, the cloisterof Fonseca College, the University Hall and finally a visit to the terrace of Faculty of Geography and History from where one of the most spectacular views of Santiago city can be enjoyed. As an added bonus, the guides are all post-graduate “expert” students in the fields of History of Art and Geography who will enhance your understanding of the history, art and socio-economic development of Santiago.

This visit is based on a minimum number of participants and only if this number is achieved the visit will take place. The visit day will be decided upon the group formation.

Half-day walking tour in Santiago de Compostela (3.30 hours)

It includes the Obradoiro Square (the San Xerome College, the Hostal dos Reis Católicos –Parador–*, the Raxoi Palace, the San Fructuoso Church). Interior Cathedral (the pilgrimage rite, Jubilee, the Pórtico da Gloria) Exterior Cathedral: the Platerías Square (the Tesoro Facade
and the Casa do Cabido), the Quintana Square (the Monastery of San Paio de Antealtares, the Casa da Conga, the Casa da Parra, the Royal Door and the Holy Door), and the Acibechería Square (the Corticela Chapel and the Monastery of San Martín Pinario).

*interior visit 1€/person.

This visit will take place the 24th or 25th of June, from 10:00 AM.

Sightseeing tour to the Costa da Morte (whole saturday, 27th of June)

The route to Fisterra (the famous Romanic Finisterrae, where the known world ends), then following the coastline along a fascinating route through fishing villages , whose history could be provide into the plot for mysterious stories and enigmatic legends. Its name derives from the numeous tragedies and shipwrecks that have taken place on this coast. The tourist guides will offer you a complete explanation of every aspect and feature of the area. After having lunch in a typical fishing village.

This tour will be paid at the Secretary Desk at the Congress site. The tour is based on a minimum number of participants and only if this number is achieved the tour will take place.

For e-learning providers (incl. EUNIS members):
Snapshot of Media Archives and Learning Object Repositories (LORs):
http://survey2.au.dk/index.php?sid=24176&lang=en

For teachers at universities:
Usage of digital media in teaching practice:
http://survey2.au.dk/index.php?sid=46926&lang=en

Both surveys will only take approx 2 minutes to fill-out.

Info about the Workshop

Workshop: Harmonizing Higher Education: “Standard” perspectives in support of the Bologna Process toward the creation of a European Higher Education Area

This workshop builds on the previous activities of the Rome Student Systems and Standard Group (RS3G) around standards and procedures supporting digital student data exchange in Higher Education Institutions. RS3G has been focused on putting into perspective how standardization efforts can help solve the challenging interoperability problems paving the road toward the harmonization of Higher Education at international level. One of its distinctive traits is to provide a context for understanding international standardization activities, contributing to the them in a practical way, and engaging in international collaboration projects. RS3G is dedicated to addressing issues such as the critical “adoption dilemma” as well as key success factors like “bridging the gap” between standardization authorities and the implementation community. The workshop will also showcase real ongoing projects and their expected impact on Bologna Process while providing references for further investigation and opportunities for direct involvement.

Info about the Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Hands on video and multimedia objects management in higher education

This tutorial will focus on management of video and multimedia objects in higher education. General landscape presentation of the OPENCAST community, ARCA and PuMuKIT projects will be done.

Hands-On part of the tutorial will be focused on the PDP approach to multimedia objects management.

PuMuKIT will be presented as a tool for video and multimedia objects management at institutional level an ARCA as a tool for content aggregation and management of multimedia educational objects at national or multi-national level.

It will also be presented the SIR-PAPI federated authentication infrastructure as a key solution for access control to multimedia assets in an inter Institutional environment.

Tutorial 2: IT Governance in Higher Education

This tutorial will focus on how can a Higher Education institution implements an IT Governance Framework.

First of all, the most important frameworks will be presented: ISO 38500, COBIT, Weill and Ross, JISC Framework (United Kingdom), CRUE Framework (Spain).

Several international initiatives in Higher Education (United Kingdom, Spain and EE.UU.) will be analized and discussed with the hope you can contribute with your own experience.

Later, key steps that the organization must follow to implement an IT Governance system will be presented.

Hands-On part of the tutorial will be focused on resolving several exercises that help you to understand how you can implement some of these steps.

During this session several toolkits developed by CRUE (similar to JISC´s toolkit) could be used.

With more than five centuries of tradition, the University of Santiago de Compostela is a historic institution that projects itself to the future and beyond its frontiers, always attentive to the different demands of society, where it stands as an important academic frame of reference and where it develops its academic, research work. Centuries of history give the University an special capacity to merge the experience, security and confidence with present and future challenges.

The University of Santiago de Compostela is one of the three public Universities in Galicia and it is ranked among the most prestigious in Spain, not only as regards the learning opportunities it provides, but also for the research it produces, which appears in the leading international scientific journals, and for its capacity to interact with the most diverse industrial and economic sectors. The University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) also promotes its students´ mobility through its participation in the European Union´s Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programs. It´s ranked among the top 25 European Universities as regards the number of students hosted under Erasmus.

With the experience gained over 500 years, it offers to its students an educational model that meets the demands of the international labour market and sustains the commitment to a knowledge-based economy of a region in continuous development. In USC a first-rate academic experience is always accompanied by a lifestyle experience that is really worthwhile. Our ancient culture and wealth of wildlife and other natural beauties are unique in Europe, and make for the best of all possible starts to any learning circuit on the Old Continent.

The scientific and technological leadership of the USC is reinforced by an international profile that is particularly evident in their postgraduate study programs. The high academic and scientific standards of European university education and research are manifested in the master´s and PhD programs offered in professional and scientific areas, ranging from Biotechnology to Cultural Services, or from Energy Sustainability to Mathematical Engineering.

In Santiago a large part of USC´s human, physical and financial resources are involved in biomedical and pharmaceutical research projects combining expertise in medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, biology and physics; in collaboration with medical and research workers at the University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela, this “bio-pharma-med” constellation is one of the Spain´s leaders in experimental research in the health sciences.

The USC, with the support of the Supercomputation Center (CESGA), carries out reference research in scientific disciplines such as mathematics or computer sciences, particularly in fields such as computational calculus and mathematical modelization. The USC also devotes considerable attention to research into food technology, farm production, the sustainable management of marine resources, and aquaculture. In particular, together with centers belonging to the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, it constitutes a powerful marine research network that places Galicia at the forefront in this area.

The USC concentrates principally on health sciences, law, social sciences, arts, natural sciences and mathematics.

Senén Barro Ameneiro

Secretary

Javier Franco Tubío

Members:

Angeles Cabarcos López
José Raúl Canay Pazos
María Jose Carreira Nouche
Luis Coladas Uria
Paulo Felix Lamas
Pedro Rey Sanchiz

D. Emilio López Zapata. University of Málaga

Vice Chair

Javier Díaz Bruguera. University of Santiago de Compostela

Members

Enrique Barreiro Alonso. University of Vigo

Uwe Blotevogel. University of Duisburg-Essen

José Alberto Bugarín Diz. University of Santiago de Compostela.

José Raúl Canay Pazos. University of Santiago de Compostela

María José Carreira Nouche. University of Santiago de Compostela.

Bas Cordewener. SURF.

José Manuel Cotos Yáñez. University of Santiago de Compostela.

Jean-Francois Desnos. University of Joseph Grenoble I, CICG.

Yves Epelboin. University of P.M Curie.

Carmen Fernández Chamizo. Complutense University of Madrid.

Miguel Ferrando Bataller. Technical University of Valencia.

Andrés Garzón Villar. Pablo de Olavide University of Sevilla.

Alf Hansen. Uninett Fas.

Carlos Juiz García. Universidad of Islas Baleares.

Tapani Kalmi. University of Turku.

Markku Kuula. Helsinki school of Economics.

Faraón Llorens Largo. University of Alicante.

Jan Madey. University of Warsaw.

Viljan Mahnic. University of Ljubljana.

Xosé María Pousada Carballo. University of Vigo.

Martin Price. EUNIS.

Arsenio Reis. University of Tris-os-montes-e alto douro.

Ligia Ribeiro. University of Porto.

Andrew Rothery. University of Worcester.

Andres Salu. University of Tartu.

Peter Tinson. UCISA.

Alberto Valderruten Vidal. University of A Coruña.

Hans-Dieter Weckmann. University of Duisburg-Essen.

You are invited to submit a paper or podcast in one of the following topics:

* IT governance
* IT infrastructure and integrated systems
* Multimedia: a new scenario for universities
* Identity management and federation
* Security: technical and legal aspects
* Globalisation and mobility: learning on a dynamic world
* Using portals and webs as institutional tools
* Virtual libraries
* E-learning and V-learning
* New technologies for education
* Are we ready? Web 2.0 and social networking at the university
* Open software and free software: a new world has arrived
* Electronic administration

– or to submit an application for the EUNIS Doerup E-learning Award, which will be handed out for the second time this year.

The deadline for abstract submission to “EUNIS 2009: IT – key of the European Space for Knwoledge”  is 15th of February 2009.