RIS Synergy, a project funded by the BMBWF as part of the ‘Digital and Social Transformation in Higher Education’ call, has come to an end after a period of 4 years and 10 months. Around 80 participants attended the final
As part of the RIS Synergy subproject 2, a concept study on a national research portal for Austria was conducted and has now been published. The concept study presents – in coordination with the needs of the Austrian research community
In collaboration with expert representatives of different portals, RIS Synergy produced a screencast about national and regional research portals. The screencast explores 5 current examples of how countries and regions present research information. The portals presented are from Flanders, Croatia,
CRIS 2024 is the sixteenth edition in a biennial series of conferences devoted to improving the availability of and access to research information systems across Europe. The target audience includes managers of research-performing and/or funding institutions, evaluators, librarians, ICT experts, as
The Journal for Higher Education Development (ZFHE) published the Special Issue Research in November 2023. The focus of this special issue is on introducing current digitisation projects at Austrian higher education institutions. RIS Synergy contributed a total of four articles,
On November 28th and 29th 2023, a large RIS Synergy project meeting took place at TU Wien and was attended by colleagues from almost all project partners. Presentations gave updates on the results and successes of all work packages and
The euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting took place in Pamplona from 21 to 23 November 2023. The mission of euroCRIS is to foster cooperation and knowledge-sharing across the research information community and to promote interoperability of research information through the CERIF standard,
September 2023 saw the first time that our monthly RIS Office Day took place at the University of Innsbruck. On September 26th and 27th, the project.service.office invited RIS Synergy colleagues to the Technology Campus of the University of Innsbruck. As
A RIS Synergy delegation presented project results at the EUNIS 2023 conference. These were now published in the article “RIS Synergy – Creating a Common Language Across Institutions: Lessons Learned and Challenges”. The article analyzes how RIS Synergy utilizes
At the EUNIS 2023 Congress in Vigo, Spain, a delegation of the RIS Synergy consortium (Elena Fürst, Michael Greil and Madeleine Harbich, University of Vienna) presented project findings and discussed future challenges with the participants in the IT Support for
The RIS Synergy project consortium has grown again. The project started in 2020 with 12 project partners (9 universities, 3 funding organisations). In the last three years, four universities joined the project and with the OeAD (Agency for Education and Internationalisation)
On 17 and 18 April, about 50 participants of the RIS Synergy consortium met for a two-day project meeting at the University of Klagenfurt. In addition to reports on the progress of individual work packages, the consortium accepted the OeAD