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EUNIS 2009 Report EUNIS 2009 2 EUNIS 2009 - Index Index Introduction........................................................................................ 5 Previous activities ................................................................................ 7 European Annual Conference .................................................................. 11 EUNIS 2009: University of Santiago de Compostela ......................................... 15 Committees ....................................................................................... 17 Papers.............................................................................................. 19 Sponsors and Contributors ......................................................................27 Maps of the Faculty of Medicine ...............................................................31 Programme ........................................................................................ 35 Keynote Speakers ................................................................................ 45 Images of the Conference ...................................................................... 55 List of attendees .................................................................................65 Executive summary ..............................................................................71 3 EUNIS 2009 - Index 4 EUNIS 2009 - Introduction Introduction What is EUNIS? Aims The European University Information Systems (EUNIS), created in 1993, has the following foundational aims: • Improve the exchange, the cooperation and the debate between the managers of the systems of information of European Institutions of Higher Education and Investigation. • Present and discuss the university point of view with the main providers of systems of information. • Establish relations with institutions of Higher Education and Research in the field of systems of information in each country and in an European level. Members Are members of this asociation: • Institutions of Higher Education and Research • National Organisations of education of all Europe • Nowadays the association is conformed by 136 official institutions from 28 european countries and 2 associated countries (United States and Israel). • Additionally there are agreements or informal relations with other organisations like EUA (European Asociation of Universities), EDUCAUSE (United States), TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association), CAUDIT (Australia) , UNINETT (Norway), etc. Government • General Assembly (representatives of all the members) • Council: Two representatives of each country, one representing the universities and other of the national organization, if it is the case. (In Spain, as representative of CRUE and of Universities, Javier Franco Tubío, Head of the ICT of the USC) • Direction Committee: a maximum of nine members chosen between the ones of the Council. 5 EUNIS 2009 - Introduction Contact: • President: Madey Jan, Director del Centre for Open and Multimedia Education Warsaw University (Poland) • Vicepresident: Mahnic Viljan, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Activities • Congresses, workshops and events with partners • Bulletins • Reports and publications • Groups of Work • Best practices Prizes • Distribution Lists • Agreements and projects More information • http://www.eunis.org 6 EUNIS 2009 - Previous activities Previous activities Presentation of the conference EUNIS 2009 during the development of the conference EUNIS 2008 From June the 24th to the 27th, three representatives of the USC assisted in Aarhus (Denmark) to the International Conference EUNIS 2008, “Visions for use of IT in Higher Education”. During the closing session, they made the official presentation of the edition 2009 (http://eunis.dk/ papers/) Presentation of the EUNIS2009 Venue. Aditionally they did informal presentations of the 2009 edition and gave promotional stuff. Promotional Stuff We developed two versions of the EUNIS 2009 promotional video, used in the presentation before mentioned, as in the web and in diferent presentations. They made flyers delivered in several forums, as the university meetings of the Sectorial Comission of the ICT of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities and a model of the Rectorship of the USC. That material includes a promotional video of the conference(http://www.eunis.es/?p=113). 7 EUNIS 2009 - Previous activities Development of workshop and meetings with the EUNIS Director Board October 3rd and 4th, 2008 the EUNIS Director Board had a meeting in Santiago de Compostela to know the details of the organization and treat with the Organising Committee several aspects of the Conference. Schedule of meetings Friday, October 3rd 09:00: Meeting of EUNIS2008 and EUNIS2009 Organising Committees 12:00 STORK project. (with Jaume I colleagues) 13:00 ICT Indicators Project (with UCISA and CRUE-TIC colleagues) 14:00 Lunch. (Fonseca Lounge, located in San Xerome Colexio - Praza do Obradoiro, S/Nº) 15:30 Return to hotel (Opportunity for informal discussion on STORK and ICT Indicators to continue if required) 16:30 Visit to EUNIS 2009 venue 17:30 (Optional) Guided visit to Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Historical Heritage Free time to visit Santiago 21:30 Dinner (Hostel of the Catholic Monarchs - Praza do Obradoiro s/n) All acts of this day will be held in the Hall Rectoral of the University of Santiago de Compostela, located in San Xerome Colexio - Praza do Obradoiro, S/Nº. Saturday, October 4th 9:00 EUNIS Board meeting, including review of EUNIS2008 and discussion of draft Conference Organisers Guidelines with colleagues from Aarhus 12:00 Board meeting with EUNIS2009 Organising Committee 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant El Mercadito - Street Galeras, 18 - Santiago de Compostela) All acts of this day will be held in the Meeting Room of The House of Europe located in Park Vista Alegre - Rúa Salvadas s / n - Santiago de Compostela Constitution of the Organising Committee and workshops In October 2008 we proceed to constitute the Organising Comittee of EUNIS 2009, with the composition shown in the page 17 of this report. 8 EUNIS 2009 - Previous activities Elaboration and set up of the official website of the Conference (www.eunis.es) For the set up of the conference website we bought a specific server to host the website as a institutional way of communication for the Conference, created with a content management system based on PHP/MySQL. We installed WordPress to edit the contents. The information can be syndicated by RSS technology. It includes the development of the institutional image of the Congress (visual identity) 9 EUNIS 2009 - Previous activities Preparation of the program and contact with keynote speakers During the years 2008 and 2009 we managed, with the colaboration of several european, spanish and galician entities and institutions, to invite different people of recognised prestige to take part in the conferences. The keynote speakers selected were the following: • Franco Accordino • Miguel Álvarez Rodríguez • Francisco José García Peñalvo • Richard N. Katz • Alan McMeekin • Louis Pouzin • Manuel Rivera Seguí • Peter Szegedi • Arthur Trew • Andreu Veà A brief resume of the Curriculum of each one of the speakers can be consulted from the page 45 of this report. 10 EUNIS 2009 - European Annual Conference European Annual Conference The main activity of EUNIS is its ANNUAL CONFERENCE. The 14th took place in Aarhus, Denmark, in June 24th to 27th, 2008, under the idea “IT: Key of the European Space for Knowledge” This event joined up to 300 assistants coming from more than 30 countries. Structured in plennary sessions and workshops, the conference let know the most important works on the field of the ICT of the european universities and research institutions, been revealed as a meeting point and as an exceptional opportunity to share experiences with the professional heads of european institutions (universities and centres of research). Schedule The conference was structured in 4 days: A first day dedicated to specific tutorials and workshops: • Workshop on National Provides and Management Information Systems • Tutorial: University Information System Standards • Tutorial: Virtual Learning Environments - Build your own classroom on SecondLife • Tutorial: Crypto Applet, a java digital signature Framework The main conference with plennary exhibitions and parallel sessions about distinct topics, during 3 days. 1. IT strategy and governance 2. IT infrastructure and integrited systems 3. Identity management, federation, security and shared services 4. IT support for globalisation and mobility 5. Portals and students services 6. Virtual libraries and repositories research and teaching 7. E-Learning: Organisation and implementation 8. Educational tools and technologies 11 EUNIS 2009 - European Annual Conference Programme The typical programme of a conference included professional activities, meetings of EUNIS Boards and other events like the Best Practices Award. All of them built a perfect complement to the conferences and presentations, and the framework to interact with other institutions. Preliminary programme of the 2008 conference: 12 EUNIS 2009 - European Annual Conference Places of the EUNIS Conferences 1995 Düsseldorf, Germany 2003 Amsterdam, Netherlands 1996 Manchester, UK 2004 Ljubljana, Slovenia 1997 Grenoble, France 2005 Manchester, UK 1998 Praha, Czech Republic 2006 Tartu, Estonia 1999 Helsinki, Finland 2007 Grenoble, France