Cineca — Solutions for Higher Education Research

Cineca - Solutions for Higher Education & Research Simone Ravaioli International Affairs CINECA

Topics • Cineca general overview • Solutions for Higher. Ed: the U-GOV system • Cineca in Europe www. u-gov. eu

CINECA University Consortium No-Profit Founded in 1969 Headquarter in Bologna 50 Members: • 47 Universities • 2 Research institutes • Italian Ministry of University and Research Total turnover: 70 mil. Employees: 550 4 owned company (Kion, SCS, . . ) www. u-gov. eu

CINECA for Higher Education Mission & Core Activities: • Supercomputing services for scientific research • ICT solutions for the Italian Administrative Applications Ministry of university and research • ICT solutions for Higer. Ed & Research Institutions Portals E-learning Communication Collaboration www. u-gov. eu

Cineca and the Italian Higher Education context Ministry of University and Research Students Database Students and learning Courses Database Research funds Delivery Accounting HR Professors Database Planning & Controlling Single University www. u-gov. eu

Topics • Cineca general overview • Solutions for Higher. Ed: the U-GOV system • Cineca in Europe www. u-gov. eu

U-GOV Solution Map For more information www. u-gov. eu

Number of Users Applications University Users • HR management (since 1990) • Accounting management (since 1997) • Student management (since 1999) • Research management (since 2005) • Planning & Controlling (since 2002) 77 54 72 34 29 At least one CINECA’s solution 86 Total Italian Universities (public, private, telematic) 97 www. u-gov. eu

Cineca in the Gartner MQ for Higher. Ed www. u-gov. eu

Topics • Cineca general overview • Solutions for Higher. Ed: the U-GOV system • Cineca in Europe www. u-gov. eu

Cineca in Europe Standardization groups • CEN (European Standards Committe) • Student mobility (RS 3 G) • Research data (euro. CRIS) European Projects • Digital repositories + Copyrights management (Arrow, m. EDRA, VOA 3 R, . . ) • E-learning (Avatar@School, . . ) • Students & Learning (Ecotool, . . ) • Do. Qup (TEMPUS – QA) Market • Turkey – Students management system, 7 university users • Romania – ESF funded project, Students & Research management, 5 univ • Albania – EU funded project, ERP suite, 11 univ Collaborations • Hannover group – with 6 European Univ Consortia: discussion on IT Strategy, technologies/frameworks • Spain – Collaboration with SIGMA Consortium on Business www. u-gov. eu

One Aim. ERA EHEA (European Higher Education Area) (European Research Area) Bologna Process (1999) Lisbon Declaration (2008) 3 cycle system Researchers Comparable degrees Credit System (ECTS) Research Infrastructures Joint Programming Mobility Knowledge Sharing Quality Assurance International collaboration One Framework. Bologna Process LEARNING RESEARCH Higher Education