Digital Transformation and Innovation for Universities

Contribution of the Representatives of the Forum Digitalisation of Universities Austria (uniko)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31263/voebm.v74i2.6380

Keywords:

digital innovation, digital transformation, digitalisation, Open Science

Abstract

Universities have pursued digital transformations proactively for decades, for example in the early initiatives of university libraries to digitise their collections. Such transformations have been greatly accelerated by COVID-19 and the digitalisation offensive of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). The latter supports cross-university networking and partnership-based implementation of 34 projects on digital and social transformation in research, teaching, transfer, and administration. At the level of university management, the Forum Digitalisation strives for coherent action at universities with ambition and care. University libraries play a key role in bundling centralised and decentralised services, such as fostering open science and research data management.

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Published

2021-11-16

How to Cite

Maier, R. and von der Linden, C. (2021) “Digital Transformation and Innovation for Universities: Contribution of the Representatives of the Forum Digitalisation of Universities Austria (uniko)”, Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians, 74(2), pp. 95–101. doi: 10.31263/voebm.v74i2.6380.