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The European Union, following the Bologna Declaration and the resulting Bologna Process, has been moving towards a unified European Higher Education Area. Today, the objectives set by the Bologna declaration are still valid and important. The ones that have not yet been achieved require further commitment.
One of the key aspects towards the success of the Bologna Process is the close cooperation and interaction between governments, higher education institutions, students, staff, employers and quality assurance agencies.
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MyUniversity-project
MyUniversity is a project conceived by the European Commission, whose aim is to bring together in close cooperation all university members (students, staff etc) and university stakeholders, by the means of a transparent and user friendly e-participation platform. Through the use of this platform, the participating universities will be able to engage their members and stakeholders on multiple issues, to get their feedback in both local and European level. This platform is based on the integration and customization of three existing platforms: Demos@Work,[1] Gov2DemOSS[2]] and Pnyx, two of which have been co-funded by the European Commission. MyUniversity project began in the Fall of 2010 and is scheduled to be completed in March 2013.
Main target outcomes of MyUniversity project are
- To allow people to participate in local and European level subjects about Higher Education, with the use of specific e-Participation tools
- To demonstrate how citizens from different countries can benefit from initiatives, results and best practices generated by other participants in other countries and how a topic debated in one country can generate a dialogue in a different one
- To demonstrate that it is easy for decision makers to take under consideration the participants' opinions generated through the e-Participation process.
Expected results
• 9 different e-Participation tools available to the universities
• At least 10 decision making processes per university affected by the collaborative input of members and stakeholders
• An average of 50% of all the universities decision making process opened to members and stakeholders on the e-Participation platform for their contribution
• An average number of 12 e-Participation initiatives per university and year
• An average number of 5 subjects being discussed per university and year
• An average participation rate of 15% per process (compared to university population)
• At least 5 cross-border participation processes created
• 2 Bologna Working Group reports influenced either directly or indirectly
• Extend the use of MyUniversity to 10 new universities as external trial users
The 14 Participating Universities are
International Business School Bulgaria
University of National and World Economy(Bulgaria)
University of Vilnius(Lithuania)
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra(Slovak Republic)
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava(Slovak Republic)
University of Presov in Presov(Slovak Republic)
Rey Juan Carlos University(Spain)
University of León(Spain)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia(Spain)
Autonomous University of Barcelona(Spain)
University of Barcelona(Spain)
University of Girona(Spain)
University of Lleida(Spain)
Stockholm University(Sweden)
MyUniversity will lever the existing Bologna decision-making framework to accomplish an impact at both Local, National and European level by:
- Providing the means for the universities to easily publish European consultations on the Bologna Process and allowing university stakeholders to provide feedback on them.
- Allowing university work groups to directly interact with stakeholders in order to provide input to the National and European associations they belong to.
- Allowing universities to track issues raised on the eParticipation portals of the other participating universities that could have similarities to the ones they are experiencing, thus allowing them to further cooperate and even create a common policy on how to tackle these issues.
- Allowing universities to disseminate key information on the Bologna process and create online surveys and discussions that can enhance the existing traditional "on-site" meetings organized by the universities for their own decision-making processes.
- Allowing university members who are representatives of the Bologna Follow Up Groups or who are active in the Bologna decision-making process to use the eParticipation tools to interact with other university members and easily extract conclusions that will be used as direct input to their work.
- Providing university personnel and students with the means to interact with their colleagues to collect data for both university and EU level reports.
- Allowing students and university personnel to interact not only with their colleagues from their own university but from other universities too, allowing the creation of informal and formal cooperation on issues that affect them.
Indicative tools offered by the platform to registered users
-News area;
-Calendar of events;
-Letters to officials;
-Forum;
-Newsletters archive;
-Participation processes;
-e-Petitions;
-Polls;
-User registration tool;
-User profile management (self management);
-Contact form;
-Search Engine.
Funding
MyUniversity is a project partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community. MyUniversity is designed as a trial project that focuses on the unification of European Higher Education and its affect on university stakeholders (i.e., students, teaching and administrative staff) with the aim of creating added value from the use of certain technologies.
Consortium
The Consortium is composed of an IT corporation, an SME, an NGO and individual universities (the end-users of MyUniversity) arrayed across 7 different EU member states.References
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