The most recent opportunity to get together to share ideas, experiences and best practices was on 27-29 September 2016, when SIG-Marcomms was hosted by EENet of HITSA in Tallinn, Estonia.
Venue address: Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, Tallinn
Registration is closed: to see the participant list, visit the EventR registration page
FINAL AGENDA
TIME | WHAT | WHO | SLIDES | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TUESDAY 27 Sep | ||||
| 13:45-14:00 | Welcome, introductions and agenda | Lonneke Walk (SURFnet - Chair) & Laura Durnford (GÉANT - Secretary) | ||
| 14:00-14:05 | Welcome by host organisation | Erki Urva (HITSA CEO) | HITSA is 3 years old. Formed by merger of EENet (oldest part nearly 25 yrs), Estonian IT foundation for colleges, and an institution to bring internet into schools. Around 100 emplyees, in 2 towns, 50 million euro budget per year. IT in education HITSA's focus, so supports and finances IT in education projects, and systems, e.g. university admissions systems. Want IT support infrastucture for all ministries of education and research, so provide customer support for users. EENet will see lots of positive devpts in futre. In coming 5 years will invest 15 million euros in rebuilding school networks, financed by EU structural funds. There are 1.3 million people spread over country size of NL, so are many small schools spread across countryside, but now consolidating many so by 2020 around 100 fewer. A challenge is that according to EU rules can only put into schools that will still be open for 5+ years. HITSA is mostly governmentt funded but a little also from fees from IT colleges. EENet provides some services for money, and there’s some sponsorship – IT academy is sponsored by Skype. Balance of revenue unlikely to change. After 2020 will see end to EC structural funds. | |
| 14:05-14:25 | HITSA organisation & marcomms overview | Egert Anslan (HITSA) | Egert's slides as pdf, and as pptx | |
| 14:25:14:35 | EENet organisation & marcomms overview | Maria Ristkok (EENet of HITSA) | Maria's slides as pdf, and as pptx | |
| 14:35-15:15 | NREN UPDATES | |||
| Update on CSC marcomms activities | Tiina Leiponen (CSC) | Tiina's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS | |||
| 15:30-17:00 | African PR Network follow up | |||
| Key points from the pre-TNC16 panel discussion - what can we learn? | Manuella Abram (GÉANT) | Manu's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| Practical progress - review of group materials | hands-on session in smaller groups | |||
| 17:00-17:15 | Day summary | Lonneke | ||
| Evening - 19:30 | DINNER details TBC | |||
| WEDNESDAY 28 Sep | ||||
| 09:00-09:15 | ARRIVAL, EMAILS | |||
| 09:15-10:45 | GÉANT Project updates - part 1 | |||
| Clouds services workshop - update on the IaaS tender and how to promote uptake | Lars Fuglevaag (UNINETT) | Lars's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | COFFEE / TEA | |||
| 11:15-11:45 | GÉANT restructure & activities | Cathrin Stöver | Cathrin's slides as pdf, and as pptx | |
| 11:45-12:45 | Challenge us to your challenges - OpenSpace session | YOUR NAME HERE!! | ||
| 12:45-13:45 | LUNCH AND EMAILS | Lunch kindly provided by EENet | ||
| 13:45-14:30 | GÉANT Project updates - part 2 | |||
| overview (15 mins) | Manuella Abram (GÉANT) | Manu's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| partner representations of the project (30 mins including discussion) | Audrey Gerber (IUCC) via VC | Audrey's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| 14:30-14:55 | NREN UPDATES A case of crisis communications and lessons learned | Laetitia Lagneau (Belnet) | ||
| 14:55-15:15 | Introduction to the AARC project | Laura Durnford (GÉANT) | Laura's slides as pdf, and as pptx | |
| 15:15-15:45 | COFFEE / TEA / EMAILS | |||
| The GÉANT Community Programme | ||||
| 15:45-16:30 | Introducing the GCP and the GCC + SIGs and TFs overview and opportunities - discussion | Valter Nordh (SUNET - chair of the GCC) | Valter's slides as pdf, and as pptx | |
| 16:30-17:00 | How does the proposed new task force on research engagement potentially fit alongside SIG-Marcomms? (30 mins) | Sylvia Kuijpers (SURFnet) & Jakob Tendel (DFN) | Sylvia & Jakob's slides as pdf, and as pptx | |
| 17:00-17:15 | day wrap up | Lonneke | ||
| Evening | Dinner | Kindly provided by the GÉANT Project | ||
| THURSDAY 29 Sep | ||||
| 09:00-09:10 | ARRIVALS, EMAILS | |||
| 09:10-10:20 | Towards better blogging - part 1 | |||
| Introduction | Lonneke | |||
| How blogging fits in the overall communications stratgey - Jisc's experience (20 mins) | Tom Mitchell (Jisc) | Tom's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| Community blogging challenges - the GÉANT experience (5 mins) | Laura Durnford (GÉANT) | |||
| Community blogging training - the SURFnet experience (10 mins) | Jan Michielsen (SURFnet) | |||
| Discussion (20 mins) | ||||
| 10:10-10:25 | COFFEE & EMAIL TIME | |||
| 10:25-12:25 | Towards better blogging - part 2 | |||
Blogging training & feedback (1 hour) | Jan Michielsen (SURFnet) | Jan's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| Discussion about the training & how to follow up in the wider community (25 mins) | ||||
| Disseminating blogs - the Jisc experience (20 mins) | Tom Mitchell (Jisc) | Tom's slides as pdf, and as pptx | ||
| Discussion - blog dissemination and tying it into your communications strategy (15 mins) | ||||
| 12:25-12:35 | Meeting survey | |||
| 12:35-12:40 | Meeting review, next meeting, wrap up | Lonneke | ||
| 12:40 | LUNCH & GOODBYE | Lunch kindly provided |
If you have ideas for topics for future meetings, please contact Laura.Durnford@geant.org or add them into the agenda suggestions page.