EUNIS 2015 - 21º Congress in Dundee

Great attendance, collaboration between corporations and the active participation of SIGMA

EUNIS gathered more than 300 professionals, managers, policy development and information technology in higher education in Europe in the 21st EUNIS Congress held in Dundee, from 10 to 12 of June 2015.

Congress presents the contributions of the organization and its members for the development of excellent information systems and quality. To this end, this year the following subjects were discussed:

• Leadership, management and governance: Risk and Change Management; Portfolio and project management; Business process reengineering; Business intelligence (including benchmarking, performance management and analysis for decision making).
• Information and Communications Technology: Infrastructure and networks; Bring your own device (BYOD); Cloud Computing; Providing services and support to users; Security
• Teaching and Learning: Mobile technology and learning experience; Using social media in teaching and learning; Advances in technology in the classroom; Technology assessment work of the student; Using gaming technology in teaching and learning; Learning analytical
• corporate information systems and business applications: success in collaboration and BackOffice solutions consortia; ERP and higher education; Mobile technology and application usage
• Research and (in collaboration with euroCRIS): Information Systems Research (optimization information landscape of a research institution); Data, data management and archiving; CRIS functions for research and management; Recent developments in research (Research Performance Management & VRE); Construction of information infrastructure research at national and international level
• Software Development: New tools and technologies used in the development of software; Agile development frameworks; User experience design

Great choice of plenary lectures: Prof. Peter Cochrane, University of Hertfordshire, who presented a conditioned by artificial intelligence technology and future, allowing us to manage the increasing complexity; DR. Phil Richards, Chief Innovation Officer, JISC, showing the English consortium approach to the use of digital technologies in higher education, and its open innovation model based on collaboration with other consortia and institutions; Dr. James Miller, Director, exposing the model of Open University Scotland; Nicole Harris, Project Development Officer of TERENA and Joanna Lyn Grama, Director Operations you DRA, IT GRC and Cibersecutiry Progams EDUCASE.

SIGMA as a member of the organization, participated in the Congress with two presentations from Jordi Cuní:

• SIGMA Research: scientific outputs, integration and interoperability.
• SIGMA Cloud: from an on-premise solution to a cloud one from SIGMA Consortium

You have available all abstracts in http://www.eunis.org/wp-content/themes/eunis/assets/EUNIS2015_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf

We participated in the task force "Electronic Management of Assessment and Assessment Analytics" conducted Gill Ferrell where the business model adopted by Queens's University and the consortium included JISC explained. This model marks a cycle of continuous improvement in the monitoring of students on their way through college.

And the taskforce "Connecting to STORK2.0 for interoperability Among Europeans Universities conducted Victoriano Giralt, in which several practical examples of the use of STORK 2.0 will be taught to handle requests from different universities using this standard.

Excellent organization of the event by the Abertay University, allowed enjoying the Scottish traditions, the city of Dundee and the friendliness of its people, leaving an unforgettable memory for all attendees.

See you at the 22nd Congress 2016 in Thessaloniki!