July 2024
Practice examples and further resources
Interoperability
Ladok
Student information system used by most higher education institutions in Sweden
Mein Bildungsraum
A German initiative to give citizens and educational institutions access to digital credentials across education levels
European Digital Education Hub
A European hub for exchange on digital education
Interoperable Europe
The European Commission’s initiative to promote interoperability in the public sector.
Interoperable Europe Act
An EU regulation aiming to strengthen cross-border interoperability and cooperation in the public sector across the EU
European Strategy for Data
European Strategy for Data
Digital Credentials for Europe (DC4U)
A pilot project for digital credentials
Common European Data Spaces
European Commission Staff Working Document on Common European Data Spaces
EOSC
The European Open Science Cloud
Manifesto for interoperability
Manifesto of the Interoperability Group in the Digital Education Hub
FAIRsFAIR Recommendations
FAIRsFAIR Recommendations on practice to support FAIR data principles
Turning FAIR into reality
Report and action plan on FAIR data from the European Commission
OpenAIRE
A series of guides for researchers to support the uptake of the FAIR principles
CARE
Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
TRUST
A set of principles to demonstrate digital repository trustworthyness
Digital services
AMUE
Common services for French universities
Sikt
Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
Digitally competent teachers
Thematic Peer Group Report on “Digitally competent teachers in designing quality learning environments” (2022)
EUA Open Science Survey Report
The EUA 2020-2021 Open Science Survey with a focus on research data practices
Artificial Intelligence
OECD, Artificial Intelligence
OECD resources for artificial intelligence
SURF on artificial intelligence
Overview of artificial intelligence in universities by SURF
AI and data ecosystems
Three webinars about Artificial Intelligence and data ecosystems
EDUCAUSE Landscape study
A global survey on the trends most likely to impact higher education over the next ten years (2024)
The enormous opportunities of artificial intelligence, once we learn to use it
An short article about the prospects for the use of AI in learning and teaching
Artificial intelligence and ethics
EUA Webinar on AI and ethics in universities
UiB AI
A platform at the University of Bergen (Norway) for making artificial intelligence more visible and promote cooperation
EPFL AI Centre
A multidisciplinary centre for artificial intelligence research, innovation and education at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
ETH Zürich AI Centre
A hub for artificial intelligence at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
Artificial intelligence: From experimentation to institutional strategies
EUA Webinar on developing institutional strategies for artificial intelligence
We can use artificial intelligence to foster human intelligence and drive our universities forward
An EUA expert voice on artificial intelligence reshaping of our institutions and scientific disciplines, Manfred Krafczyk, TU Braunschweig
Artificial Intelligence in Science: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of Research
An OECD report about the use of AI in research
AI in Science – Harnessing the power of AI to accelerate discovery and foster innovation
A 2023 Policy Brief from the European Commission
Successful and timely uptake of artificial intelligence in science in the EU
A proposal from the EU Science Advice Mechanism for promoting AI in Science – suggesting a Distributed Institute for AI in Science and a European AI in science council
GPT NL
Dutch project to develop its own language model
GPT UiO
ChatGPT version of the University of Oslo
Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education
EUA-ELIA webinar on generative AI in universities and arts schools
OpenAI GPT4
OpenAI’s introduction to GPT4
Intelligence artificielle: je t’aime, moi non plus
A critical debate about generative artificial intelligence
JISC Intelligent Campus Project
Resources to develop smart campus from Jisc (UK)
Smart Campus Project – Erasmus University of Rotterdam
A project to “demonstrate that data, analytics, and immersive visualisation tools can create awareness and support decision-making in the context of campus user wellbeing”
Jisc data analytics for teaching and learning
Resources from Jisc about learning analytics
Security
SURF-soc
Common point of contact for security issues in Dutch universities
Jisc Cyber Security Portal
Security services offered by Jisc
HEISP
Information Security unit of Bavarian state universities
RSSI – Good practices guide
Good practice guide for security by Belgian, francophone universities
Information Security strategies for Higher Education Institutions
EUA/EUNIS Webinar with various good practice examples on cybersecurity
Interview with Liam O’Reilly
Interview with Liam O’Reilly, University of Limerick, about institutional initiatives towards cyber threats.
Student data
Research data management
National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) was established in Germany to systematically manage scientific and research data, providing long-term data storage, backup and accessibility, and network the data both nationally and internationally.
DataverseNL
DataverseNL is a publicly accessible data repository platform in the Netherlands, open to researchers from research performing institutions to deposit and share research data openly with anyone.
FAIRsFAIR project
FAIRsFAIR is an EU-funded project aimed at supporting the emergence of FAIR research data management skills and practices in universities
FAIRsFAIR Recommendations
FAIRsFAIR Recommendations on practice to support FAIR data principles
Good Practices in FAIR Competence Education
The Good Practices in FAIR Competence Education report presents a collection of seven case studies describing how FAIR competences are being addressed through education and training programmes.
How to be FAIR with your data. A teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions.
How to be FAIR with your data is a teaching and training handbook, which aims to support higher education institutions with the integration of FAIR-related content in their curricula and teaching.
Turning FAIR into reality
Report and action plan on FAIR data from the European Commission
OpenAIRE
A series of guides for researchers to support the uptake of the FAIR principles
OpenAIRE’s guides for researchers
OpenAIRE’s guides for researchers developed many resources to support FAIR research data management and open science training at institutional level.