When we decided to run our first online Congress, due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we felt we had to do it in a way that reflects the spirit of our community. It seems ‘Virtual Helsinki’ did just that! With more than 500 attendees involved during the week, the participation rate was much
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We’re living in uncommon times and that requires uncommon thinking. Higher education faces one of its most unprecedented challenges in the time of COVID-19, but thinking outside the box is what the EDUCAUSE community does best.
This fall the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2020 attendees will come together virtually to search for
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EUNIS Cloud Community plans its next VC on 17 August 2020.
It will focus on:
survey about cloud usage in the EUNIS community
European court of justice rule about the EU-US privacy shield and potential consequences
GÈANT/OCRE tender.
If you are interested in joining the group please contact Denise Dittrich: denise.dittrich@eunis.org
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Every year EUNIS Benchmarking (BencHEIT) Task Force runs an annual survey on IT costs and volumes of Higher Education institutes. The 2019 BM analysis is already available here. You can hear more on the results at the BencHEIT webinar planned on August 20th.
To get more information join the TF here or contact: bm-pg@eunis.org.
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Augmented and virtual reality are fast becoming practical tools that can enhance the learning experience and accelerate student learning. EUNIS has launched a new special interest group (SIG) to look at this topic during the #EUNIS20 Congress. Watch the recording from the session here.
The group is dedicated to sharing on the potential uses
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EUNIS Information Security (InfoSec) Special Interest Group organised the workshop on Ransomware on 9 June 2020 as a part of the EUNIS Virtual Congress 2020. Read the summary from the workshop here.
It contains information on:
Attacks: case studies from Maastricht University and Duisburg-Essen University
Prevent & respond as Individual HEI and
We ran over 30 separate on-line sessions including plenaries, parallel sessions and workshops from our special interest groups at our #EUNIS20 Congress in Virtual Helsinki! If you didn’t manage to participate don’t hesitate to watch the recordings which are now available within the sessions at the Congress web here!
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The European Campus Card Association (ECCA) is actively progressing with a “Consultation Process on the Development of a Proposal for a Trusted Student Identification Framework” (Student eID Framework) that will use internet technologies to support the provision of secure identification
and authentication of students on a cross-border basis in Europe. ECCA
Read the EUNIS Monthly Newsletter from June 2020 here. It contains a summary of our #EUNIS20 Congress in Virtual Helsinki and the news from Partners and Corporate Members.
Subscribe to the EUNIS weekly Newsletter here.
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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.
The EUNIS Dørup Award for learning and teaching went to:
Tomi Kauppinen, YuliaGuseva and Sara Gottschalk from Aalto University Foundation for ‘Designing Digital Higher Education: Case Aalto Online
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