Rome Student Systems and Standards Group Forms New Steering Committee
The Rome Student Systems and Standards Group [RS3G] was co-founded by Digitary and two other European companies in Rome in November 2007 to promote the development and implementation of standards for data and practices in international student mobility and employability.
The group caught the attention of the Higher Education community because of its potential to accelerate standards development by influencing and supporting standards development and by acting as a conduit for early implementation of emerging standards. The first meeting attracted approximately 40 participants from 13 countries.
At a meeting in Amsterdam in April 2009, the steering committee of the group was bolstered by key stakeholders in European Higher Education and is complemented by a steering group.
The steering committee is:
Gunnar Backelin, LADOK Consortium of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (Sweden)
Jonathan Dempsey, Digitary (Ireland)
Jean Francois Desnos, President of European Universities Information Systems Association (France)
Manuel Dietz, QS unisolution (Germany)
Herman de Leeuw, European Association for International Education (Netherlands)
Simone Ravaioli, KION (Italy)
The advisory group to the steering committee is
Jan Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research (Sweden)
David Moldoff, Post Secondary Education Standards Council (USA)
Mark Stubbs, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
The group will hold its next workshop co-located with the annual conference of the European Universities Information Systems Association in Santiago de Compostela in June (Santiago Workshop) and will organise a workshop as part of the European Association of International Education in Madrid in September (Madrid Workshop).
For more information on RS3G visit the RS3G Website.
© Digitary 2009.
