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EUNIS Rectors’ Conference: 14-16 April 2016, Kraków, Poland
The EUNIS 2016 Rectors’ Conference  is a follow-on from the previous successful conferences held in Paris (2003, 2006), Prague (2012) and Helsinki (2014). These conferences attracted many rectors and decision makers from various universities. The topic of this Conference is Smart European University and the programme is created to outline in which way Digital and…
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EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2015: visits to Purdue University & University of Washington
This report follows the feedback meeting held in Paris on February 12, 2016 and covers the two day-long university visits and the various workshops attended at the EDUCAUSE conference itself.  The report focuses on the IT challenges, a comprehensive student experience and top 10 IT issues & trends 2016 in the Higher Education context in the US.…
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European project on leadership for the digital transformation of universities
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the institutional member of EUNIS, will be running two leadership schools within the Transforming Universities for the Digital Age (D-Transform) project. The aim of the project is to introduce a leadership training programme for the presidents and vice presidents of European universities that takes into account the role of digital technologies…
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ECCA on-line survey on eID credentials and campus card systems
European Campus Card Association (ECCA) is carrying out an important research study through an on-line survey with Education Institutions across Europe. The aim of this survey is to determine the current state of the art and the potential future requirements for eID credentials and campus card systems. The research study will analyse the survey results…
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CRIS/IR Survey report Old
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) and Institutional Repositories (IRs) are two main components of the Research Information Management realm. The rising strategic importance of CRISs and IRs for higher education and research institutions is linked to the need of fostering research and innovation. The features of these two systems have gradually been extended and…
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EUNIS 2016: call for papers extended till 29th of February 2016
Dear Colleague, The call for papers deadline has now passed, however due to a number of requests we have agreed to extend the period to allow for more submissions. We’ve had a fantastic response so far and look forward to receiving further papers before the final deadline. Please note the new deadline date is Monday 29th of…
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Join the BencHEIT survey 2016
About the BencHEIT project BencHEIT is a European level voluntary study on a non-commercial basis. Its aim is to establish a comprehensive knowledge of how cost efficiently IT works in European universities, and universities of applied sciences! It is the first serious European level effort to create a survey which would be meaningful and useful in…
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EUNIS 2016: registration now open!
Dear EUNIS Attendees, We are excited to invite you to join us at EUNIS 2016 taking place on June 8-10, 2016 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Location The Congress will be held at Aristotle University in the historical city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Thessaloniki, the second largest city and co-capital of Greece, is world known for the Ancient Greek, Roman…
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EUNIS Journal of Higher Education IT – Issue 2015/3
Each year, when the annual congress has ended an issue of the Eunis Journal of higher education IT (EJHEIT) is assembled comprised by full papers coming from the congress submissions. We are happy to announce that the third EJHEIT issue of the year is out containing the full papers. 27 papers in total from 6…
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MOOCs again !
Still writing on MOOCs while, in a previous newsletter, I explained how the term disappeared in the United States? Am I waisting your time (and mine)? Try searching the Educause 2015 reports, using this word as a a keyword: itwill return only a couple of papers! Yes, the word seems to disappear but I declare…
