INGENIUM is an alliance of ten institutions of higher education from ten European countries. We seek to enable each member of the network to offer high-quality study and qualification programmes with digital components which are shared within the INGENIUM Alliance. Due to the internationalisation of courses and an increase in student and staff mobility, the promotion of intercultural competence among teachers and students is of central interest to us.
I very much believe in the idea of European unity and cannot think of a better project to help achieve this goal than INGENIUM,
I am deeply interested in how INGENIUM will connect people from different fields, countries and backgrounds. I believe that the development of synergies between people across Europe is a key factor in addressing the major challenges we will face in the coming decades.
INGENIUM represents all the potential a multicultural, interuniversity alliance can offer in terms of strengthening European values by bringing together students, researchers, teachers and staff and by creating opportunities for them to jointly address common challenges.
Tolerance is a virtue. I believe that our responsibility, as academics, is to push our students to become more tolerant to diversity and to open their minds. European universities are the best place to achieve these goals.
I am really interested in the concept of the Entrepreneurial University and through Entrepreneurial INGENIUM look forward to exploring and implementing staff and student entrepreneurial programmes with our partners.
MTU’s motto is “succeeding together” and the development of the Ingenium Alliance provides a wonderful opportunity to succeed together with talented and ambitious European partners for the advancement of all.
Advocate for research ethics and integrity and committed to internationalisation and the experience and opportunity that mobility offers.
I believe in cooperation and in bringing together the ideas from different countries, backgrounds, and cultures. That is a complex environment to achieve conclusions. However, it is always a great learning achievement, and when the conclusion is finally reached, it is superior to the conclusion drawn by just like-minded people with the same background. INGENIUM provides this opportunity to the students and the faculty and staff of all the partner universities.
INGENIUM is an ambitious and inspiring network to create great possibilities for European university students in the future.
Through the INGENIUM Alliance, we are pursuing excellence in education and research, and adapting to the forthcoming challenges in European Higher Education Area.
Universities are a unique creation of the European civilization. The INGENIUM European University is made up of diverse universities and countries that, by encouraging mobility of students and staff, can contribute to a better understanding of ourselves, our shared values and also our cultural differences.
I am deeply European, I believe that our generation has the responsibility to help the next generation to better understand the world, to collaborate between themselves to seize the great environmental challenges. INGENIUM is a great European adventure that modestly participates in this.
Science is global and sees no borders. What you see on the map are just constructed and artificial lines. Cooperation is the key to excellence and I believe that the INGENIUM Alliance could bring students, teachers and researchers together to work towards this goal.
I see INGENIUM as building the Pangea of higher education in Europe. It is for us to keep it together, a way of providing the meaningful competences for our graduates, wisely negotiating the AI rise of power with our humanity.
INGENIUM’s YouTube account gives you glimpses into our network’s activities. For instance, you will find visuals of our campuses, impressions from our student body as well as links to our members’ social media accounts there.
The implementation of such a complex initiative as the European Universities with the level of ambition the INGENIUM Alliance proposes requires a major organisational effort.
For the first time since the creation of the INGENIUM consortium in 2020, the ten partners met face-to-face while attending the 2nd symposium of their European University alliance.
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An internal web platform (Intranet) that enables members to communicate directly while ensuring that the communication remains confidential.
For the development of the intranet site, WordPress has been selected as the platform of choice. WordPress, widely recognized for its flexibility and functionality, is well-suited for building a secure and user-friendly intranet environment.
The DIGITAL INGENIUM forum system has been Implemented, configured and embedded within the main web site. The platform chosen is the Simple Press open software because of previous experience within the university of Crete, large user community and expansions capability.
The forum has been initialized and sub divided into categories and topics following the working packages system but it can easily be adjusted and modified.
Help desk ticketing system to keep track of partners issues thus DIGITAL INGENIUM team can resolve them in a timely manner. It gives the team the everyday tools they need to do their job well, from answering tickets to collaborating with other team members.
Upon receival of an issue the system automatically creates a ticket. Each ticket gets a unique ID, allowing it to be easily tracked throughout its lifecycle. The ticket management system stores all relevant information about the issue, including the member’s contact information, the nature of the problem, any attempted solutions, and the status of the ticket (e.g., open, pending, closed).
A system of categorization has been implemented. Tickets based on criteria like issue type, importance, or severity of the problem are prioritized. This allows support teams to respond to the most critical issues first, improving response times and ultimately resolve the issue.
Browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.
Round Cube open software platform has been chosen and configured based upon previous experience within the university of Crete and a wide user community support base.
A centralized digital storage that is used to store and share folders, text files, and other types of documents. The repository has features that allow users to easily edit files, and efficiently collaborate on the same project from any location. The software chosen is “Nextcloud”, an open source platform that offers a variety of collaboration features and a wide user and support base.
The proposed authentication solution was based on SAML 2.0 protocol which INGENIUM partners already use to access services by other providers (e.g. Erasmus+ eduGAIN/GEANT). It should also be mentioned that the University of Crete IT staff has extended experience on managing and operating Nextcloud installations and also implementing and supporting the authentication and authorization proposed solution.
Francois Germinet
