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Starts the Erasmus+ "Information Technology Governance for Tunisian Universities" (ITG4TU) project coordinated by the UIB

IT Governance frameworks for Tunisian Universities

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

University of Balearic Islands, Majorca, Spain

On 20th - 22th January, the Kick-Off Meeting of the Erasmus+ "Information Technology Governance for Tunisian Universities - ITG4TU" project (Governance of Information Technology for Tunisian universities) will be held, whose main coordinator is the University of the Balearic Islands, represented by Carlos Juiz and Beatriz Gomez.

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.

Event date: 20/01/2016

Publication date: Fri Jan 08 09:22:00 CET 2016