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Online Seminar on Clarivate's Higher Education Platform and Library Management System – Alma
2025-02-11 12:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Online
Discover how Alma – the comprehensive library management platform for higher education institutions – integrates print, electronic, and digital resource management into a unified system, simplifying complex processes and enhancing operational efficiency.
Why Participate?
Optimize workflows and streamline complex tasks with Alma, a modern cloud-based library management system. Alma helps reduce operational complexity, improve overall efficiency, and enhance the user experience.
Gain practical insights into improving library operations and performance, particularly in managing electronic and digital materials. Learn about successful solutions and strategies that will help your library reach new heights.
Presenter: Bettina Schmid, Senior Technical Solutions Consultant at Clarivate.
Registration form:
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Infoshare: Global Platform for Labs (GP4L)
2025-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtually Hosted
Description:
Join us for an exciting virtual infoshare session where we’ll explore the latest activities related to GP4L (the Global Platform for Labs). We will talk about

The main concepts and benefits related to GP4L
How to leverage the GP4L testbed to create flexible and adaptable networks
Use cases and success stories from the GP4L labs
The future directions of GP4L

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with the GP4L team, ask questions, and gain valuable insights – https://geant-netdev.gitlab-pages.pcss.pl/gp4ldocs/
Link to event – https://events.geant.org/event/1808/

Data Sharing Festival 2025
2025-02-06 09:00 - 2025-02-07 18:00
This Festival celebrates the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and sovereignty in the data world. It aims to recognize achievements, tackle challenges, and shape the future of data spaces with a mix of inspiring keynotes, panels, and many interactive sessions. The Data Sharing Festival will have a dynamic program that focuses on practical solutions and collaboration to scale up market adoption and synergise individual approaches.
Your active participation is crucial in this journey toward data sharing excellence. The program promises entertaining and enlightening experiences, fostering connections and sparking future collaborations.
Link to event – https://eosc.eu/events/data-sharing-festival-2025/

BERD Academy: Open Education for Research with Business, Economics and Related Data
2025-01-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Big Data took the world by storm, Artificial Intelligence has become a hot topic across research disciplines. Working with these data can be a challenge. Especially for researchers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, who graduated just a few years ago when most study programs covered mainly or exclusively ‘traditional’ data collection methods such as surveys with structured, tabular data.
To unlock the research potential of new data sources by applying fitting methods, education is needed. The BERD Academy is the training outlet of the consortium for Business, Economics, and Related Data in the National Research Data Infrastructure (BERD@NFDI). In this talk, we will present how a wide range of offers in flexible formats fulfills the needs of researchers and research data providers. We want to discuss, how educational content can unlock research potential and how open education can foster open science.
Link to event – https://eosc.eu/events/berd-academy-open-education-for-research-with-business-economics-and-related-data/

Empowering Research: National RIMS System Launch in Latvia, 28 January
2025-01-28 11:00 - 16:30 | Latvijas universitāte (Zinātnes māja), Jelgavas iela 3, Rīga, Latvia
The Association “Higher Education and Science Information Technology Shared Service Centre” (VPC) has successfully conducted an open tender for the “Subscription of the Research Information Management System (RIMS) and Procurement of Related Services.”
As a result of the tender, a Framework Agreement was signed on December 31, 2024, ensuring access to modern research information management solutions for Latvian state and academic institutions.
This step promotes the development of science and higher education by enabling effective management and dissemination of scientific and academic achievements.
VPC and Elsevier are delighted to invite you to the National Research Information Management System (RIMS) Launch in Latvia.

Link to registration: Press here

Date: 28th January, 2025
Time: 11am – 4:30pm
Venue: University of Latvia House of Science, Jelgavas Street 3, Room 103/104

About:
Join us to celebrate the launch of Latvia’s first cloud-based National Research Information Management System, powered by Elsevier’s PURE platform. The event will feature a welcome address from key representatives, a keynote speech on driving innovation and collaboration, and a discussion on the journey of the National RIMS system in Latvia. Attendees can also look forward to a panel discussion on expectations and collaborative goals, a presentation on the Pure system’s impact on innovation, insights into how a leading university pioneered Pure, and details on the strategic rollout of the system. The purpose of the event is to highlight the significance of this new system in empowering research and collaboration across Latvia.
Agenda:

Time
Event

10:00–11:00
Registration and coffee break

11:00
Welcome

11:30–11:50
Welcoming words from the Ministry

11:50–12:20
Keynote Speech: “Driving Innovation: The Role of Pure in Empowering Research and Collaboration in Latvia” (Said Taha, Senior Vice President, Elsevier)

12:20–12:50
“From Conception to Reality: The Journey of the National RIMS System in Latvia” (Janis Grevins, Higher Education and Science Information Technology Shared Service Centre)

12:50–13:15
Leading the Way: How Riga Stradiņš University Pioneered Pure in Latvia

13:15–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–14:30
Pure system: Driving Innovation in Latvia’s National RIMS (Michał Nowak, Software Solutions Technical Sales Manager)

14:30–15:00
Insights and Outcomes: The Impact of Pure Community Implementation in Israel

15:00–15:15
Key Conclusions: Lessons Learned from Implementation in Israel

15:15–16:00
Strategic Rollout: The Implementation Journey of Pure (Kresten Kodal Sorensen, Senior Implementation Manager)

16:00–16:30
Closing and Q&A

Higher Education Reference Model - HERM
2025-01-22 11:30 - 17:30 | Latvijas universitāte (Zinātnes māja), Jelgavas iela 3, Rīga, Latvia
Register for an eventSpeakers
Patrik Maltusch
Patrik Maltusch leads the EA architecture team at Aalto University and chairs the Finnish EA-SIG and EUNIS EA-SIG. With over 15 years as a network architect and business owner in a global Telco, he is also an accredited security professional, risk manager, and Education Enterprise Architect. Patrik emphasizes interoperability as key to managing digitalization in complex ecosystems.
Esa Suominen
Esa Suominen works as an Enterprise Architect at the University of Helsinki. He is also secretary of the EUNIS EA SIG and the Finnish EA SIG. He has long experience in IT sector at Higher Education Institute. He holds M. Sc. from University of Lappeenranta. He is interested in to implement Enterprise architecture in practical way in organizations.
Agenda
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11:30-12:00
Registration. Tea/coffee

12:00-13:30
Practical workshop (for study process and IT teams) Introduction to HERM, mapping of existing systems and processes, review of real organisational situations and scenarios.

13:30-14:15
Lunch

14:15-16:00
IT Institutional Strategy and National Framework (for leaders, study process and IT teams) Strategic vision, high-level roadmap, cost-benefit analysis, governance and alignment with national shared services.

16:00-16:20
Tea/coffee

16:20-17:30
Implementation approaches and next steps International best practice, simple integration and gradual implementation. HERM’s role in long-term governance and interoperability.

11:30-
12:00
Registration. Tea/coffee

12:00-
13:30
Practical workshop (for study
process and IT teams) Introduction to HERM, mapping
of existing systems and processes, review of real
organisational situations and scenarios.

13:30-
14:15
Lunch

14:15-
16:00
IT Institutional Strategy and
National Framework (for leaders, study process and
IT teams) Strategic vision, high-level roadmap,
cost-benefit analysis, governance and alignment
with national shared services.

16:00-
16:20
Tea/coffee

16:20-
17:30
Implementation approaches and
next steps International best practice, simple
integration and gradual implementation. HERM’s role
in long-term governance and interoperability.

• At Jelgavas Street 1, Riga. Entry to the parking lot is before the LU Dabas māja (Nature House) if you are coming from the city center. Press the button at the barrier and provide the password ‘VPC’.
• At Jelgavas Street 3, Riga. Entry to the parking lot is behind the LU Zinātņu māja (Science House) if you are coming from the city center. Press the button at the barrier and provide the password ‘VPC’.

VPC Information day
2024-11-14 11:30 - 18:00 | VPC Information day, Dzirnavu iela 33, Riga, Centrs, LV-1010, Latvia
