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Voiceless
The following is an adaptation of the blog I wrote for a French Journal, Educpros, in a rush after the events of last Friday. It seems to me very important to show how the digital communication has played a crucial role in this night of nightmare. I went to bed quietly Friday night around midnight,…
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Workshop: “Sharing Research Data and OA to publications in H2020”, Nov 18, Ghent, Belgium
As a major funder, through Horizon2020, the EU has been at the forefront of implementing Open Access policies. Following the Open Access pilot in FP7, Horizon2020 brings a strong mandate for Open Access to publications as well as an Open Data Pilot for certain areas of research. The pilot encourages researchers to deposit research data in…
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Survey on CRIS in Europe – first dissemination
Knowing how institutions in Europe are using their CRISs and IRs was the main goal of a survey jointly carried out by euroCRIS and EUNIS, the European University Information Systems Organization. At the EuroCRIS meeting in Barcelona a first overview of the results coming from the survey was presented. The poster with these results can…
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euroCRIS: Strategic Membership Meeting, 9-11 Nov, Barcelona
International Collaboration on Research Information Management and CERIF The goals of the event are not only the exchange of information and ideas but more so, the exploration of possible concrete joint actions and projects towards the realisation of an improvement of the research information landscape, based on international standards. The meeting covers the aspects of:…
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EUNIS workshop on Higher Education IT benchmarking: Nov 13, Barcelona
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…
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News from the West of the MOOCs!
Educause is starting next week. I will be there and, like any serious participant, I have started to prepare my schedule. Well, as you know, I am interested by anything about MOOCs but using this word, as a keyword did not return one single suggestion! Does it mean that the movement has gone? No more…
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Submit a paper to TNC16 – Building the Internet of People
EUNIS has for a long time had a strategic partnership with GEANT. Each year the two organisations interchange presenters at each others annual conferences. The call for papers to TNC has now opened and can be found at the TNC website. Submit a proposal (single presentation or full session) for TNC16. The theme of TNC16…
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The death of the amphitheater
Asserting that it could be replaced by videos distributed via the Web seems to have condemned lecturing from the chair together with the amphitheater. Being pushed in the forefront by the MOOC movement, videos would close all lecture halls, students would become active in their learning. In short it would revolutionize teaching and send the…
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Education & Training 2020 – EC strategic framework
The European Commission has announced a sharpened set of priorities for European Education and Training 2020 (ET2020). The new six priorities are the following: 1. Relevant and high-quality skills and competences for employability, innovation, active citizenship; 2. Inclusive education, equality, non-discrimination, civic competences; 3. Open and innovative education and training, including by fully embracing the…
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We have so much in common!
A long time since my last post! June was a time of traveling, not only EUNIS congress but also many others in my own country as well as in Europe. Then vacation time! Dundee was a wonderful conference well organized, wonderful time and full of friendship. I love EUNIS congresses and I did not miss…
