EUNIS Elite Award for excellence in implementing Information Systems for Higher Education

The EUNIS Board of Directors is pleased to invite submissions for the 9th EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence

Goal of the EUNIS Elite Award

The main purpose of the EUNIS Elite Award is to recognise and promote best practice in some aspect of the use of information systems in higher education in Europe. The competition will:

  • recognise excellence
  • stimulate wider awareness and use of information systems in teaching, learning, research, administration and community service in institutions
  • encourage best practice

Prize

A prize of 2000€ will be awarded to the authors of the winning submission. The winner is announced at the EUNIS 2010 Congress in Warsaw, Poland.
A member of the winning team must register to attend the Conference and be ready to present a short paper describing the project.

Eligibility

Submissions for the Award may come from any area related to information systems, including for example:

  • Portals
  • Identity Management
  • Administrative Information Systems
  • Learning Management Systems
  • e-Learning
  • Virtual Laboratories

The panel of judges needs to see evidence of successful implementation. Entries will score well if they clearly show some or all of the following:

  • Demonstrable benefits to the target community
  • Efficiency and productivity gains
  • Innovation
  • Imagination
  • Collaboration
  • High levels of technological integration
  • Transferability to other organisations

Entries will not be restricted to in-house developments only. Solutions acquired elsewhere will also be accepted for consideration by the judges, but there must be clear evidence of original and imaginative use of the technology by the institution making the submission.
All Full Members of EUNIS are eligible to compete for the Elite Award for Excellence, including institutions in national organisations in membership of EUNIS.
Only one entry per institution will be accepted.

Entry requirements

Entries must be submitted electronically following the rules and template for full papers (c.f. http://eunis.pl/eunis-2010-camera-ready-paper-template.doc). The document should describe:

  • the goals of the project
  • the environment in which the project takes place, including technical, administrative and financial constraints
  • the state of development of the project
  • the results of the project and its impact on the institution
  • any planned further developments
  • the applicability of the project to other institutions

A brief summary of the project is also required. It should follow the rules and template for extended abstracts (c.f. http://eunis.pl/eunis-2010-extended-abstract-template.doc).
All entries must include a statement permitting EUNIS to publish details of the project. One of the most important objectives of the EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence is to recognise examples of best practice and share them with our community.

Deadline for submissions

The deadline for submissions is Monday 10 May 2010. All entries should be sent by email to the EUNIS Executive Secretary, Kristel Sarlin (kristel@sarlin.mobi).

Previous Winners

1999: Oxford Brookes University (UK)
2001: Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and University of Porto (Portugal)
2002: London School of Economics (UK)
2003: Technische Universität Graz (Austria)
2004: University of Manchester (UK)
2005: Masaryk University Brno (Czech Republic)
2006: Universitat Jaume I Castello (Spain)
2007: MUCI Consortium (Poland)
2008: no award
2009: no award

Sponsors of the Award in previous years include EUNIS-CZ, Ginit, Oracle, SAP and Digitary.

See the best practices section for the reports

 

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