The document describes an eParticipation platform called MyUniversity that was created to allow members of universities and stakeholders to participate in higher education decision making. The platform integrates three existing participation platforms and provides tools like forums, petitions, polls, communications, newsletters, news, and a calendar. It then lists 20 European universities that have implemented the MyUniversity platform on their websites.

1. www.myuniversity-project.eu
Visit and get familiar .
Processes The participation processes is a flexible tool that
allows the creation of mini-sites within the portal. Each partici-
with the eParticipation Platforms! pation process consists of a description, a document repository
. MyUniversity project’s goal is to equip universities with an
and optionally additional tools such as a forum, a GIS system
etc.
e-Participation platform that allows university members and
stakeholders to actively participate in the higher education
decision making process, both locally and at European level. .
Petitions This component gives the ability to any registered
. This platform is based on the integration and customization
member of the portal to create a new e-Petition. When a new
petition is submitted and approved, it can be signed by the
of three existing platforms: Demos@Work, Gov2DemOSS and registered users of the portal. The creator of the petition
Pnyx. configures the minimum number of signatures required for the
petition, as well as the expiration date, after which no more
The main supported tools and their functionality signatures are accepted.
.
Forum If used properly, forums are very powerful tools in a
.
Polls A number of polls can be created on the portal. A poll
participation environment. MyUniversity uses a very simple and consists of a subject and a number of predefined answers.
easy to use forum board, which is designed with a user-centric Users can vote directly for the featured poll, view the results or
approach. A forum consists of one or more categories (a.k.a. access the rest of the published polls.
boards). Each category can have one or more threads (a.k.a.
discussions) available, where users can post their opinions and
read other users’ opinions. Users have the opportunity to select
a board, a discussion, create a new discussion, rate a post etc.

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Communicate Visitors of the portal can create a new letter,
which can be published on the portal after necessary approval. . International Business School Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/ibsedu
As soon as the recipient of the letter answers, the user will be
notified by email and the answer will be published on the
. University of National and World Economy (Bulgaria)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/unwe
platform. . University of Vilnius (Lithuania)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/vu
Newsletters . MyUniversity portals give their visitors the . Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovakia)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/uniag
ability to subscribe to their newsletters. Additionally, current
and past issues are published on the website for greater
. Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/stuba
visibility. . University of Presov in Presov (Slovakia)
News . This section displays the news articles uploaded to the
www.e-myUniversity.eu/unipo
. Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain)
portal. Registered users have the option to submit an article to www.e-myuniversity.eu/urjc
the portal. Other options in this section are: creating a PDF file . University of León (Spain)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/ule
out of the article, printing the article and sending the article
through email.
. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/upc
.
Calendar The portals of MyUniversity feature an advanced
. Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/uab
and easy to use calendar of events for all their visitors. Users . University of Barcelona (Spain)
can view the events by year, month, week or day and search in www.e-myuniversity.eu/ub
the calendar. They can also propose an event to be included in . University of Girona (Spain)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/udg
the calendar after they log in. . University of Lleida (Spain)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/udl
. Stockholm University (Sweden)
www.e-myuniversity.eu/su
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness
and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Community (http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp).