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EUNIS Research and Analysis Initiative: The Next Phase Johan Bergström • Michele Mennielli

What is EUNIS today? 2000 HE professionals 30 Countries and counting 120 different institutions 19 Consortia and Organisations

Eunis Structure Events • Annual Congress • Rectors Conference • Task Forces Events Task Forces • eLTF • BITF • BencHEIT • Interoperabilitity ERAI

National organisations

What we bring to the Community ü Deep understanding of national Higher Ed ü Pan-european perspective ü Direct contacts with national institutions ü Knowledge of current and future needs ü Constantly looking for improvements ü The network to create international collaborations

International organisations …and more

What is ERAI?

ERAI: Where we want to get Being the “trend setter” or the “go-to place” for the European HE CIO when they want to have the most professional information available ERAI should be a tool to: Predict Plan Make the case for IT

ERAI: What we already have A large community Papers from events (since 1997) Publications/surveys/reports from Task Forces Support to national bodies in distributing local surveys/analysis

ERAI: What we did– Short terms ERAI: What we need – Short terms Yesterday March 2015 Define the Engage the Collect A Journal/Online scope community information Magazine Working group National on analysis and A dedicated section organisations for research already within EUNIS’ surveys, analysis, run in Europe website Funding funding and acceptance. Single members for contributions and papers.

Challenges + + = ERAI

ERAI – a knowledge platform ERAI Part of EUNIS + Eunis Research and Analysis + Well established Initiative + Growing network + Knowledge Sharing platform + Pan European + Network organisation collaboration + Channel of contacts

Content creation International comparisons Global comparison, providing the European voice European insights Original work with a European perspective. Leverage existing national surveys. Broker of surveys and results Additional analysis Comparisons between countries and studies Single studies Market national studies Work with a national stance (with a European outlook)

Editorial Committee

BI Survey

Maturity level of Business Intelligence programs of Universities Assessment questions required by two maturity models: • TDWI BI MM (TDWI Research, 2012) • Institutional Intelligence White Book MM (OCU 2013)

Methodology Assessment questions required by two maturity models: • TDWI BI MM (TDWI Research, 2012) • Institutional Intelligence White Book MM (OCU 2013)

Results

Benchmarking in Europe through BencHEIT

BencHEIT Methodology Predominantly focused on IT-costs Peer comparisons within or between countries Distributed survey (Excel) beginning of each year

IT-costs by organizational level

Results

EUNIS and EUROCRIS collaboration A survey on CRIS and IR

What Knowing how European HEIs are using their CRIS and IR, and why Institution Identification – who was invited Part I – CRIS survey Part II – IR survey Central survey system

CRIS, IR, ? A CRIS is an informational system, built in-house or purchased from a vendor, dedicated to collecting, analyzing, reporting, providing access and disseminating research and development (R&D) information.“ An IR is a digital collection of research outputs (mainly publications and datasets) aiming to collect, to preserve and to disseminate the intellectual production of a higher education or research institution In America it is often referred to as RIM – Research Information Management.

Types of providers

Links to internal systems

Standards used in CRIS/IR

CRIS/IR Evolution

EJHEIT Eunis Journal of Higher Education IT

What now?!

ERAI: What we need – Long terms March 2015 Aug 2015 ü 2 studies/year run by EUNIS ü 1 interview /month ü Providing a time plan of all ü 1 case study/month national surveys conducted each year ü 1 Task Force’s report every 4 ü 1 European overview / year month Analysis of all the national surveys run in each country to create a European overview; promotion and ü 3 editions of the EJHEIT /year distribution of national surveys in third countries (translation (?); ü European TOP 10 Issues adaptations; know-how)

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