Partners & Cooperations
Networking for the Austrian education sector
As a service and cooperaton platform for Austrian universities, we're not only collaborating with public education institutions. We also maintain partnerships with organisations from business, science and society. Cooperations and networks play a crucial role for the development of the Austrian education sector. Through the exchange of ideas, resources and knowledge we are able to develop innovative solutions to overcome current challenges together.
On this page you will find out about our most important partnerships and how we work together to shape the digital transformation in the Austrian (higher) educational sector.
ACOmarket
The IT-Broker and service provider of Austrian universities
ACOmarket provides IT-solutions and innovations regarding digitalization for Austrian universities. Its target is to sustainably support those via inter-university synergies and IT. In addition, the ACONET Association and ACOmarket provide their services for non-profit in reseach, education and culture. Joint agreements for IT-servicers, consulting and cloud services are meant to guarantee a better position of Austrian universities on the market. Through collaboration with universities, innovative and high-quality solutions, advanced terms and legal security as well as the opportunity to save money in the procurement, contract design and administration of IT-services.
During the ACO-TEC 2023, the IT-conference for the areas of education, research and science, the cooperation with ACOmarket was founded based on the focal topic cybersecurity. In this cooperation, the DUH acts as a platform built by universities for universities This cooperation will be widened at the ACO-TEC 2024 with the guiding theme “The digital university”. The DUH will contribute a small marketplace with services from universities for universites, which are first results evolving from initiatives funded in the 2019 ministry call.
CDR Austria
The platform for digital ethics and corporate digital responsibility
CDR Austria is the biggest Austrian network for sustainable digitalization. It deals with questions regarding digital ethics and sustainability criteria in cooperation with its networking partners respACT und resonanzDIGITAL. As a meeting point for digital transformation processes it unites relevant partners from business, science, society and politics from German-speaking countries. In addition, it raises awareness for this responsibility in working groups, with consulting and events. CDR deals with questions like the following:
- How do we want our future world to be like and how can digitalization support us in this world?
- How can we establish trust in the long term in a world, that is volatile, insecure, complex and ambigous (VUCA)?
- Which risks come with digitalization and how can we deal with them?
CDR Austria supports digital transformation processes at the interface of business, science and society. It serves as a meeting point for the exchange of ideas, experiences and diskussions about future developments. The offer for digital ethics and responsibility includes further education programes, the organisation of events and continuing support of projects.
The digital university hub not only shares the vision of CDR. DUH project leader Elisabeth Reiger actively participates at the CDR-congesses as a speaker in a team experts for GEN Z and their contribution to corporate digital responsibilty.
More about CDR Austria (German only)
ZFHE
Journal for Higher Education Development
The peer-reviewed online magazine ZFHE (Journal for Higher Education Development) presents scientific articles with practical benefits on current topics in higher education development. It focues on pedagogical, organisational and cultural advances in teaching and studying. Particular attention is paid to innovative topics that offer as yet unresolved opportunities for organisation. The magazine is seen as a bridge between research at universities and practice-orientated design.
In terms of methodology, the magazine takes a pluralistic approach. Contributions with empirical-quantitative approaches are welcome, as well as articles based on qualitative social research, design-based research, action research or other complex methodologies. In addition, the submission of theoretical-conceptual papers is also possible, provided they pursue innovative and forward-looking approaches.
As a national hub for digital transformation, the digital university hub was actively involved in the publication of Volume 19: Special Edition Administration (2024): Digitalisation in Administration - Projects of Austrian Universities 2020-2024 actively contributed by DUH project manager Elisabeth Rieger. This issue also contains an article on the digital university hub project as one of 10 initiatives in the field of administration. An overview of the bmbwf rounds off the trilogy of special issues (administration, education in higher education institutions and research) and all projects from the ministry call in 2019.
DUH Lab
The inter-university conference for digital transformation
The DUH Lab is an event format of the digital university hub. As a central meeting point for digital transformation at universities, the DUH Lab creates a space for collaborative thinking, the development of innovative projects and the establishment of inter-university networks. The focus is on promoting the cross-university exchange of expert knowledge and jointly shaping the future of the Austrian educational landscape. By emphasising different focal points at conferences, the DUH Lab creates a tangible experience of digital transformation and therefore strengthens interdisciplinary and inter-university cooperation between people from the various Austrian universities.
iMooX
THE MOOC-platform for German-speaking countries
iMooX is an important platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) in German-speaking countries. These openly published courses can be taken for free and present a central offer in the field of Open Eduvational Resources (OER).The digital university hub supports the iMooX platform with providing the university landscape and the general public with information about iMooX offers. In addition, MOOCs resulting from some of the 34 digital initiatives of the 2019 ministry call can be found on iMooX.