Information Technology

Target audience

The NUAS IT Group wants to act as a coordinating group to bring together all the IT Directors and other senior IT leaders of all Nordic universities and universities of applied science, to disseminate information and best practices, and to help in forming cooperation agreements, common purchasing agreements and common projects. There is no other Nordic level organization or cooperation body for higher education IT, so there is a very clear need for this role. Almost all the Nordic countries have a national level higher education IT Directors’ Forum or association and the NUAS IT Group wants to act as a force bringing these national level forums together.

Focus areas

• The organization of common Nordic level seminars and workshops such as the “Nordic CIO Forum”
• Partnership negotiations with Microsoft and other major IT providers
• Common, Nordic level purchasing agreements
• Coordination of IT hot topics such as digitalization, IT security, enterprise architecture work, etc.

Activities last year

• 3 ordinary online meetings
• 1 physical meeting in Turku
• 1 webinar on AI
• 1 webinar –Cybersecurity Threaths in HR
• 1 webinar –Embracing AI with Microsoft 365 copilot

Plans for 2026-27

• 3 online meetings in 2026 and 3 in 2027
• Physical meeting in Copenhagen in August 2026. Physical meeting in 2027 –loaction net decided yet
• 2 webinars in 2026 –1 on using digitaliziation platform (Ie. Power Platform) og probably one on Digital Sovereingty
• 2 webinars i 2027 –subjects not decided yet.