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EUNIS & AVIXA Awards for AV enabled learning space

Entries are open for the EUNIS awards for AV enabled learning space. This award is open to all Higher Education providers worldwide. It celebrates great design where AV is an integral component of enabling education to take place. The award covers physical and hybrid environments but not fully online learning. Check out the criteria and apply using the AV Award form. The deadline for submissions is 6 March. Winners will be invited to present their winning entry at the EUNIS23 annual Congress in Vigo, Spain.

#EUNIS22 Congress Awards

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

Elite Award for the best practice of the use of information systems in HE went to: Valérie Le Strat (AMUE, France), Patrik Maltusch (Aalto University, Finland), Esa Suominen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Lluís Alfons Ariño Martín (Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain) for the paper Using enterprise architecture and capability models in higher education: case studies from the EUNIS community.
Best Paper Award was grated to Ziwei Huang (Feedback Fruits, the Netherlands) and Wilco te Winke (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) for Automated Feedback: An AI-powered Tool to Scale Micro-level Feedback for Better Academic Writing.
EUNIS Award for AV-enabled Classroom Educational Space went to Kim Dekeyser (imec research group at KU Leuven, Belgium) and Charlotte Vanroelen ( imec research group at University of Ghent, Belgium) for A digital twin of the medical simulation lab to improve communication skills of medical doctors. Simulation training in Virtual Reality.
EUNIS 2022 Winner Best Overall AV-enabled Education Space and EUNIS Award for AV-enabled Non-Classroom Educational Space was handed to the Greek team: Georgios Roussos, Dimos Charidimou ,Vasiliki Kalfa, Anastasios Petalotis, Angeliki Agorogianni from the IT Center – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece for the paper Deliver knowledge in a Digital World: Successfully Livestream In-Person, Virtual or Hybrid large-scale educational events – Challenges and best practices.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Best Overall AV-enabled Education Space Award: deadline extended till 10 April

The deadline for entries for the 2022 EUNIS awards for AV enabled education space has been extended to 10 April.

Submissions should cover innovative use of AV technology (including immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality) in any higher education facility. The competition is open to higher education worldwide and you do not have to be a EUNIS member to enter.

Winners will be funded to present their work at EUNIS22. Find out more about the award here.

Entries for the 2022 awards for AV enabled education space are now open!

We are pleased to announce that entries for the 2022 EUNIS awards for AV enabled education space are now open! Working with AVIXA we are able to open the competition to innovators worldwide. Entries can cover innovative use of AV technology (including immersive technologies) in any higher education facility. Winners will be funded to present their work at #EUNIS22 Congress.

Find out more on the award website.

#EUNIS21 Congress Awards

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.