EUA member universities start work on institutional data project

EUA recently established the group to explore data-steered initiatives pioneered among its members and examine emerging practices in the use of data for institutional development.  During the first exploratory meeting, TPG members touched on a number of factors impacting institutions’ use of their data, including data quality, privacy and literacy, as well as highlighting data governance and sovereignty as immediate concerns for universities.

The group will next convene in Brussels on 21 May. This onsite meeting will be an opportunity for the group’s members to address data-related priorities in more depth, drawing on their collective experience in digital transformation, institutional research, planning and organisational change.

The group, which brings together expertise in quality enhancement, knowledge management, data analytics and strategic foresight, is comprised of 25 leaders from EUA member institutions in 19 countries:

• Manfred Krafczyk, Vice-President for Digital Transformation and Sustainability, TU Braunschweig, Germany – Chair
• Sargis Asatryants, National Polytechnic University of Armenia
• Andrea Trink, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria
• Walter Ysebaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Claire Brumagne, UCLouvain, Belgium
• Jana Simanova, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
• Anna Grönlund, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Antoine Blanchard, University of Bordeaux, France
• Elisa Hétroy Wheeler, University of Strasbourg, France
• Ekaterina Kldiashvili, Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy, Georgia
• Aisling McKenna, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Maura McGinn, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Anita Tabacco, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
• Vija Kinna, Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Žydrūnė Žemaitytė-Kviklienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
• Lukas Wolf, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• Patricia Meertens, Maastricht University , the Netherlands
• Radoslaw Rybkowski , Jagiellonian University, Poland
• Patricia Oliveira-Silva, Catholic University of Portugal
• Razvan Malancus, Iași University of Life Sciences, Romania
• Barbora Čakovská, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia
• Anna Sandell, Malmö University, Sweden
• Sofia Gustafson Capkova, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Stephan Zimmermann Wegmann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Laura Knox, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom