Save the date for the 2021 Annual Congress, with the theme A New Era of Digital Transformation: Challenges for Higher Education, that will be held on 9 – 11 June 2021 in Virtual Athens hosted by the Greek Universities Network, and for the EUNIS pre-Congressworkshops that are planned online for 1 – 4 June. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic all presentations will be given virtually.

The registration will open soon. Stay tuned!

The Congress and the workshops provide an opportunity for sharing of experience amongst international specialists, users, researchers, decision-makers, and teaching staff from all over Europe and beyond. You will hear about the latest results of research, developments, and deployments of Information Technology in HEIs.

Find out more here.

See the preliminary schedule for the pre-Congress workshops and save the date:

1 June:

• Everywhere and Nowhere: student mobility in the era of micro learning, digital credentials and blockchain (full day).

Join us to get updates on major initiatives to create the infrastructure and standards to support student mobility and find out how digital credentials and open badges are being used to support both formal and informal learning.

Organised by: EUNIS Student Mobility and Learning and Teaching SIGs in collaboration with IMS Europe

2 June:

• Building up high and down under: inter-continental collaboration on enterprise architecture (half day)

Get the latest updates on the development of a European Higher Education Capability model. This session has been scheduled to allow collaboration with colleagues in Australia and New Zealand.

Organised by: EUNIS Enterprise Architecture SIG in collaboration with CAUDIT and UCISA.

• How to save millions by giving up spaghetti: true interoperability for the digital age (half day).

Hear an introduction to Edu-API, find out about the latest developments and hear about the benefits from those already adopting a standards-based approach.

Organised by: EUNIS Enterprise Architecture SIG in collaboration with IMS Europe and LADOK

3 June:

• Home Alone: information security for remote learners and workers.

Get ideas and inspiration about raising security awareness and safer homeworking tools among staff and students. Find out about approaches to Human Centred Security such as gamification based on ‘escape rooms’, wifi-eating tamagochis, hands-on hacking and other safe homeworking developments.

Organised by: EUNIS Information Security SIG in collaboration with GÉANT TF-EDU and SWITCH.

4 June:

• Leading digital transformation: nurturing the ecosystem.

Digital transformation means delivering on a strategy that covers all parts of the ecosystem including infrastructure, tools, information and, most importantly, people. Join us to hear senior leaders share and discuss their experiences. The general leadership session will be followed by our CIO Forum.

Organised by: EUNIS Board in collaboration with partners and corporate members.