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ITG4TU. Kick-Off Meeting of the project Erasmus+ coordinated by the UIB

A Erasmus+ Project belonging to Capacity Building, in the field of Higher Education

University of Balearic Islands

Carlos Juiz and Beatriz Gómez, on behalf of the University of Balearic Islands as principal coordinator of the Erasmus+ "Information Technology Governance for Tunisian Universities" (ITG4TU) project, organized the Kick-Off Meeting at UIB on 21st and 22nd January. The presentation of the partners was held, the work plan of the project was indicated and the various tasks, set out in a schedule of actions, that each one of them will perform, were scheduled.

This project is aimed to gather a set of researchers from four universities with a wide experience in developing and deploying ITG (including ITG4U and dFogIT) framework models from 3 different countries (Spain, Germany and Norway) to develop, adapt and test a new ITG framework to be implemented in HEIs in Tunisia. Expected results of this project include a better governance model for IT in Tunisian HEIs as well as an overall modernization of the governance processes for HEIs and a contribution of the cooperation between EU and Tunisia.

European universities partners are:

  • University of Balearic Islands, with Carlos Juiz as principal investigator and coordinator of the project (Spain).
  • Universidad de Almería, whose representative is Antonio Fernández (Spain).
  • SRH Hochschule Berlin, whose representative is Vladimir Stantchev (Germany).
  • Østfold University College, whose representative is Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Norway).

Tunisian universities partners are:

  • Université de Gabès, whose representative is Mehdi Khouja.
  • Université de la Manouba, whose representative is Youssef ben halima.
  • Université de Tunis El Manar, whose representative is Samir Moalla.
  • Université de SFAX, whose representative is Ismail Bouassida.

Capacity-building projects in the field of higher education are transnational cooperation projects, based on multilateral partnerships, primarily between higher education institutions from Programme and eligible Partner Countries outside the European Union.

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Event date: 21/01/2016

Publication date: Wed Jan 27 12:46:00 CET 2016

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