EUNIS - European University Information Systems

It is always a great pleasure to recognise and honour excellence via the EUNIS Congress awards. This year was no exception and we had some outstanding winners.

The EUNIS Elite Award for the best practice of the use of information systems in HE went to:

• Guido Bacharach, Matthias Gottlieb, Jan Joost Norder, Hans Pongratz, Ramona-Denisa Steiper, Wolfgang Radenbach, Hermann Strack and Arn Waßmann for Progress on Digitization of Higher Education Processes towards Standards EU & DE: Status and future Perspectives
  

The EUNIS Best Paper Award went to:

• Suvi Valsta, Tuija Marstio, Virve Pekkarinen, and Anssi Mattila, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland for COVID-19 Leap – not only digital but also pedagogical.

The winners of the EUNIS/AVIXA award for AV enabled education space were presenting at the Congress AV session, they are:

• Hybrid Learning Theatre by Maud Pols, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• CUBE35: AV-supercharged educational space by Aukje Leufkens, Chiara Baldo, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
• The Collaboration Learning Theater by Julie Johnston, University of Indiana, US

Last but not least, the Congress’ socialising Treasure Hunt competition awards go to Manos Roumeliotis, U. of Macedonia and Annette Baumann, Technische Universität München.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Do you plan to submit a paper for the #EUNIS21 Congress in Virtual Athens? Then note you may apply for the  EUNIS awards!

The call for entries is now open for the following awards:

• EUNIS Elite Award – for excellence at an institution/consortium/national level
• EUNIS Dørup Award – for outstanding and innovative use of IT in learning and teaching
• EUNIS Award for AV enabled learning space – our international award for innovative use of AV technology
• EUNIS Best Paper Award – selected from papers submitted for the annual Congress.

How to enter:

Entries for all awards follow the submission procedure for the Annual Congress. More information on this here.

Deadline:
The deadline for entries for all of the awards is 15 March 2021.

If you are a past EUNIS Award winner and would like to give us an update for the EUNIS newsletter, please contact: info@eunis.org.

A reminder that the call for papers for the 2021 Annual Congress, with the theme A New Era of Digital Transformation: Challenges for Higher Education, is open till 26th of February!

The Congress will be held on 9 – 11 June 2021 in (Virtual) Athens hosted by the Greek Universities Network. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all presentations at the EUNIS 2021 Congress will be given virtually.

Exciting news for entrants to the EUNIS Award for AV enabled learning space. As the winners will be presenting virtually at the EUNIS21 Congress, we have also secured a place for the winner to present, in person, at InfoComm in Orlando, Florida (23-29 of October 2021). Travel and conference registration will be covered. It may also be possible to support attendance by the individual strand winners as well. The award recognizes innovative use of audiovisual technology to enhance learning. This award is open to higher education projects worldwide. Find out more and enter here.

When submitting your paper, you can also apply for the other EUNIS awards! Read more here.

Extended abstracts and (optionally) full papers are requested to be uploaded to the #EUNIS21 Congress Easy Chair system for reviewing. Find out more here.

A reminder that the call for papers for the 2021 Annual Congress, with the theme A New Era of Digital Transformation: Challenges for Higher Education, is open till 26th of February!

The Congress will be held on 9 – 11 June 2021 in (Virtual) Athens hosted by the Greek Universities Network. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all presentations at the EUNIS 2021 Congress will be given virtually.

The Congress presents an opportunity for sharing of experience amongst international specialists, users, researchers, decision-makers, and teaching staff from all over Europe. The event provides an ideal audience to present and publish the latest results of research, development, and deployment of Information Technology in HEIs.

Submissions are invited under one of the 7 tracks below:

• Leadership & Management
• ICT Infrastructure & Security
• Learning, Teaching and Student Experience
• Software Development
• OpenX & Interoperability
• ICT in Research
• Covid-19 as an accelerator for digital transformation

Extended abstracts and (optionally) full papers are requested to be uploaded to the #EUNIS21 Congress Easy Chair system for reviewing. Find out more here.

Don’t miss to apply for the EUNIS awards! The call for entries is now open for the following awards:

• EUNIS Elite Award – for excellence at an institution/consortium/national level
• EUNIS Dørup Award – for outstanding and innovative use of IT in learning and teaching
• EUNIS Award for AV enabled learning space – our international award for innovative use of AV technology
• EUNIS Best Paper Award – selected from papers submitted for the annual Congress.

Read more here.

Get inspired by having a look to the last Congress #EUNIS20 “Book of Abstracts” and full papers publication in EJHEIT 2020/01 issue. Moreover, you may still reach the recordings from the #EUNIS20 Congress.