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EUNIS News March 2006 |
EUNIS2006 ~ University of Tartu, Estonia , 28-30 June
Theme: “IS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION?” Organisation
of the 12th annual EUNIS Conference is now well under way, as a
glance at the conference website will demonstrate. We have an A to Z of
keynote speakers lined up, from our host Professor Jaak Aaviksoo, Rector of
Tartu University, who is currently a member of the
Board of European University Association (EUA) to our old friend Dr Michael
Zastrocky, Vice-President of Gartner Group. Other invited speakers will come
from as far away as
Full details and a Booking Form are on the web at http://www.ut.ee/EUNIS2006/ If you book before 1 May 2006 there is a discount of €59 on the registration fee and for EUNIS member institutions there is a further discount of €59 per person. EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence 2006 The 7th competition for the EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence has been announced. The Board of Directors has decided to widen the scope of the Award whilst retaining an information systems theme. Projects in the fields of e-learning, portals, identity management, etc are now eligible to compete - as well as those in the usual area of administrative systems. The 2006 Award will be worth €2000 to the winning authors. The closing date for submissions is 29 May 2006. The winner will be announced at EUNIS2006 in
Full details of the Elite Award competition are on the web at http://www.eunis.org eLearning Task Force The Task Force is running an eLearning Snapshots project for EUNIS. A co-ordinating team of Bas Cordewener, Jens Dørup and Andrew Rothery is conducting a web-based survey to gather information about the way eLearning is organised and supported in institutions. They wrote to EUNIS members in November 2005 inviting them to take part, and received a reasonably good response. But they would like more participation and, if you haven’t already completed your form, they ask you to consider taking a few minutes to fill in the questionnaire on the web at http://www.video.au.dk/cf/snapshot.cfm. You might like to ask colleagues working in appropriate areas to take part too. The co-ordinators plan to meet shortly to analyse the returns and prepare a report. They intend to present their findings at the EUNIS2006 Conference in June and will share the results with contributors to the survey and EUNIS members. EUNIS Rectors Seminar,
We
thank Yves Epelboin, a former President of EUNIS, for arranging another
excellent Rectors Seminar in
The theme of the Seminar was Impact of the Bologna Process
on Information Technology in European Universities. In a densely packed 24 hours we
heard presentations from an impressive team of 8 leading speakers from
Very positive feedback indicates the EUNIS Rectors Seminars are well received and we have been encouraged by many attendees to arrange more such events at regular intervals in the future. EUNIS is extremely grateful to SAP, SUN Microsystems, SUNGARD SCT Higher Education and WebCT (a BlackBoard company) for their generous support. The Seminar would not have taken place without it. A record of the Rectors Seminar will appear on the EUNIS website soon, including presenters slides and a video recording. Please check http://www.eunis.org for an update. News from the Board of Directors Future EUNIS Conferences: The Board hopes to return
to
Bid for Socrates funding: EUNIS is leading a
consortium with CSIESR (France), UCISA (UK), ZKI (
Links with other organisations: The EUNIS Board
is keen to develop closer links with other organisations with which it has
similar aims and objectives. We currently have formal agreements with TERENA
(Trans European Research and Education Networking Association) and with
Gartner Group - see items below. We hope to reach formal ties soon with
CAUDIT (Council of the Australian University Directors of IT) and EKMA (European
Knowledge Media Association). Several national bodies are full members of
EUNIS, including those in
EUNIS web site: The EUNIS web site, which
is kindly hosted and maintained by Yves Epelboin at Université Pierre et
Marie Curie in
TERENA and EUNISA formal agreement has been signed between EUNIS and the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA). The objective of the agreement is to enable both organisations to work more closely together. We will achieve this by various means including:- · maintaining links to each other on our respective web sites · disseminating information about each other's activities and events · giving presentations at each other's annual conferences · encouraging members to attend each other's events This year the TERENA Networking
Conference is taking place in
New members We are pleased to welcome the following who have recently joined EUNIS:
l’Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France) Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) Letterkenny Institute of Technology (Ireland) Hogeschool Drenthe (Netherlands)
Universiteit Utrecht (Netherlands) UNINETT (Norway)
University of Murcia (Spain) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) KION SpA (
There are currently 95 members of EUNIS. Is your institution a member of EUNIS?If you don’t know see http://www.eunis.org/html3/organisation/board/ga.html for a current list of members. If your institution is not listed there why not join now? The modest annual fee is €150. Members are entitled to discounts at EUNIS events. The Membership Application Form is at http://www.eunis.org/html3/organisation/application/membership_application.rtf ************* Don’t forget………………….. EUNIS2006
28-30 June 2006
Early Bird discounts until 1 May 2006!! Have you booked your place? Martin Price EUNIS Executive Secretary Mail: eunis@reading.ac.uk 27.3.2006 |
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