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AVIXA webinar Learning Tech Manager’s Power Hour: 22 Feb, 19.00 CET

EUNIS Partner and member AVIXA invites you to join the series of webinars Learning Tech Manager’s Power Hour: Scaling Security. The upcoming one will be held on the 22nd of February at 19.00 CET.

At the February Power Hour we learn how to:

– Identify the biggest threats to higher education institutions and learn how to prepare.
– Understand how a risk-based security strategy can detect and prevent threats.
– Apply insights to your current network security documents to evaluate overall conditions to identify where improvements can be made.

You will hear the representatives of EUNIS: Bas Cordewener (Jisc, EUNIS Board member) and Patrik Maltusch (Aalto University, EUNIS Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group Leader).

Read more and register here.

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#EUNIS21 Congress: we promised you sunshine!

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.

 

 

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GÉANT Innovation Programme

EUNIS partner GÉANT is launching a new innovation programme with 300k euro to support community research projects.

Join an online infoshare on 23rd of February at 11am CET for an introduction to the GÉANT Innovation Programme and explanation of the application and selection process.

The call for proposals is for small research projects of up to 30k euro, usually taking 3-6 months (max 9 months) and finishing by the end of December 2021. Universities, research institutions/institutes or other legal entities to which a GÉANT Association Member NREN provides services are eligible to apply.

Read more here and register here .

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EUNIS21 Congress call for papers deadline reminder: 26 Feb

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.

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Launch session of EUNIS IT benchmarking survey BM2020: 3 February 2021

As the next round of benchmarking survey on IT costs and volumes of Higher Education institutions is about to start, we would like to invite you to the launch session on 3rd of February 2021 at 13.00 CET.

In this webinar we will:

  •     Introduce you to the BM working space (called Eduuni)
  •     Look at the BM2020 survey Excel and how to use it
  •     Answer any questions you may have regarding the tools, the benchmarking process, or the interpretation of the questions.
The session will be an online meeting in Zoom. The emphasis will be put on discussion, so your questions are welcome! We especially recommend the meeting to new participants. There will be a lot of valuable information and tips shared by the experienced benchmarkers. To get access to our collaboration platform Eduuni, we need your contact information, thus please register here. Participation in BM2020 survey is voluntary and free of charge.
If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on bm-pg@eunis.org.