EUNIS24 Congress

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for #EUNIS24 is closed – thank you for your contribution!

The EUNIS 2024 Congress provides an ideal forum to present and publish the latest results of research, development, and deployment of information technology and systems for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It also provides a unique opportunity to exchange perspectives and experiences in relation to the digital transformation of European Universities and the development of an intelligent digital ecosystem in higher education, aiming to strategically assess challenges and opportunities.

The EUNIS 2024 Congress programme will feature a range of topics and session formats including: oral presentations, panel discussions, workshops and birds-of-a-feather/roundtable discussions.

Our call for papers to EUNIS 2024 is open to the wider higher education community.

Prospective contributors are invited to submit proposals and papers in the following tracks:

Governance and policies for higher education and research

  • Enterprise Architecture: towards a European wide set of HEI services
  • Digital workflows: savings and trade-offs from digitalization
  • Open science
  • International cooperation within Europe and beyond
  • European University Alliances
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Ethics, data protection and trust
  • Digital sovereignty
  • Ethical issues with the use of AI in higher education
  • Distributed workforces and communities
  • Role of HEIs in the new geopolitical landscape
  • Leadership strategies for an intelligent digital ecosystem in higher education

Information systems design, development and deployment

  • Information systems for HEI’s internal management
  • Information systems for inter-institutional cooperation (e.g.,  in initiatives funded by European programmes such as European Universities and Erasmus+)
  • Information systems for telework, blended learning, virtual laboratories, etc.
  • Information security
  • Infrastructure
  • Benchmarking
  • IT standards and interoperability
  • Technology uptake: experience reports and trends
  • Cloud management
  • Business Intelligence and analytics
  • AI: experiences, opportunities and risks
  • Identity and access management
  • Chatbots and virtual assistants
  • Smart campus applications
  • Collaboration tools
  • Verifiable digital credentials

Learning, teaching and research

  • Student mobility
  • Student success for a changing learner profile
  • Student and staff digital skills
  • IT support for research
  • Educational technologies for teaching, learning and assessment
  • Adaptation and personalization of contents and curricula
  • Hybrid and blended learning
  • AR/VR and metaverse technologies in higher education
  • Applied learning and graduate employability
  • Education and entrepreneurship
  • Digital and micro-credentials
  • Learning Analytics
  • Personalised learning
  • Generative AI: challenges and opportunities

Guidelines for contributors

First choose what type of submission is relevant to you:

  1. Proposals for an oral presentation / panel discussion / birds of a feather or round-table discussion.
    These submissions should be made using the  simplified template.Your proposal should answer all the questions and should not exceed 4 pages.
  2. Full Scientific Papers submitted for presentation during the Congress and also to be considered for– one or more of the EUNIS awards* and/or– publication in the open access EPiC Series in Computing, indexed by Scopus  (see volume for 2023).These submissions should be made using the EasyChair compatible publications template and should not exceed 10-pages (excluding references and biography). This link to EasyChair publications template gives full instructions for Word docx or LaTeX. This is the EUNIS full papers EasyChair compatible word template.

All submissions must be uploaded to the EasyChair portal, to be reviewed by the EUNIS 2024 Scientific Committee (SC).

Deadlines

The following deadlines apply:

  • Submission deadline                  11 February 2024 21 February 2024
  • Notification of acceptance         18 March 2024
  • Final revisions                              15 April 2024 (only applies to papers for publication)
  • Early Bird booking ends             22 April 2024

*Awards

If submitting a full scientific paper, you can ask to be considered for one of the EUNIS awards. You should study the information for each award carefully to ensure you meet the criteria. Note that some awards are only open to EUNIS member organisations. The Scientific Committee may also nominate papers for the awards.

Award handled via the EasyChair submission process

  • Nomination for the Elite award, which recognizes and promotes best practice in the use of information systems in higher education in Europe.
  • Nomination for the Dørup award, given for outstanding and innovative applications of information technology in an educational setting.
  • Transmission to the Vietsch Foundation for potential project funding.

Other Awards

  • EUNIS also runs an award for AV enabled education space. This award has a separate submission process to allow for the upload of multimedia supporting evidence.
  • The Best Paper award will be judged from among the full submissions. You cannot self-nominate for this award.