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EUNIS Enterprise Architecture SIG training
EUNIS Enterprise Architecture SIG organised an online training session on 15 September on EIRA (European Interoperability Reference Architecture). Participants were able to see how EA is contributing to the development of digital public services across Europe. There is a strong correlation between EU states with high alignment with the interoperability framework and those who score highly on digital public…
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EUNIS Cloud Community survey
EUNIS Cloud Group is interested in getting an overview about the status of cloud usage in the EUNIS community. Therefore, it has decided to run a survey in order to find similarities concerning cloud management from the organisational point of view. It contains: – general questions about cloud usage – details about the introduction of cloud usage…
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#EUNIS20 Congress case study at the ZOOM blog
When we decided to run our first online Congress, due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we felt we had to do it in a way that reflects the spirit of our community. It seems ‘Virtual Helsinki’ did just that! With more than 500 attendees involved during the week, the participation rate was much higher than one would normally…
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EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2020: 27-29 October, online
We’re living in uncommon times and that requires uncommon thinking. Higher education faces one of its most unprecedented challenges in the time of COVID-19, but thinking outside the box is what the EDUCAUSE community does best. This fall the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2020 attendees will come together virtually to search for solutions and applicable takeaways…
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EUNIS Cloud Community VC: 17 August
EUNIS Cloud Community plans its next VC on 17 August 2020. It will focus on: survey about cloud usage in the EUNIS community European court of justice rule about the EU-US privacy shield and potential consequences GÈANT/OCRE tender. If you are interested in joining the group please contact Denise Dittrich: denise.dittrich@eunis.org
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EUNIS BencHEIT TF survey summary: 20 August
Every year EUNIS Benchmarking (BencHEIT) Task Force runs an annual survey on IT costs and volumes of Higher Education institutes. The 2019 BM analysis is already available here. You can hear more on the results at the BencHEIT webinar planned on August 20th. To get more information join the TF here or contact: bm-pg@eunis.org.
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AR/VR Special Interest Group
Augmented and virtual reality are fast becoming practical tools that can enhance the learning experience and accelerate student learning. EUNIS has launched a new special interest group (SIG) to look at this topic during the #EUNIS20 Congress. Watch the recording from the session here. The group is dedicated to sharing on the potential uses of virtual reality and…
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EUNIS Information Security SIG workshop output
EUNIS Information Security (InfoSec) Special Interest Group organised the workshop on Ransomware on 9 June 2020 as a part of the EUNIS Virtual Congress 2020. Read the summary from the workshop here. It contains information on: Attacks: case studies from Maastricht University and Duisburg-Essen University Prevent & respond as Individual HEI and in national collaboration Awareness,…
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#EUNIS20 Congress recordings now available!
We ran over 30 separate on-line sessions including plenaries, parallel sessions and workshops from our special interest groups at our #EUNIS20 Congress in Virtual Helsinki! If you didn’t manage to participate don’t hesitate to watch the recordings which are now available within the sessions at the Congress web here!
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ECCA report on student eID
The European Campus Card Association (ECCA) is actively progressing with a “Consultation Process on the Development of a Proposal for a Trusted Student Identification Framework” (Student eID Framework) that will use internet technologies to support the provision of secure identification and authentication of students on a cross-border basis in Europe. ECCA concluded the first phase…