The document discusses a collaborative project involving remote collaboration and the use of Drupal and Open Atrium to support higher education reforms in Europe. It outlines the roles of various educational networks and programs, including Unica, Tempus, and Bologna experts, in fostering inter-university cooperation and facilitating communication among stakeholders. Key initiatives include training seminars, regional workshops, and conferences, all aimed at improving higher education quality and integration across Europe.

1. Remote Collaboration and
Institutional Intranets
With Drupal and Open Atrium
Antonio De Marco Andrea Pescetti
antonio@nuvole.org andrea@nuvole.org

2. Nuvole: a Drupal company
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3. Our Distributed Team
BELGIUM ITALY
Brussels Parma
+ a Network of Consultants

4. Clients in the States and in Europe

5. Project partners

6. European Commission DG EAC
Lifelong Learning Programme
Lifelong Learning Programme enables individuals at all stages of their lives to pursue
stimulating learning opportunities across Europe.

7. European Commission EACEA
Tempus Programme
Tempus is the European Union’s programme which supports the modernisation of
higher education in the Partner Countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western
Balkans and the Mediterranean region, mainly through university cooperation projects.

8. UNICA
Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe
UNICA is a network of 42 universities from the capital cities of Europe, with a combined
strength of over 120,000 staff and 1,500,000 students. Its role is to promote academic
excellence, integration and co-operation between member universities throughout
Europe.

9. Brussels Education Services
Brussels Education Services aims to promote inter-university cooperation and to foster
university-society relations through international projects.

10. Aims of the project
‣ Permanent discussion and collaboration about
Higher Education reform ("Bologna Process") in
the European Union
‣ 700+ Experts nominated by the European Union
and National Bodies
‣ Distributed in 59 countries form Europe and
beyond

11. The Experts
Senior Academics, Rectors, Vice-Rectors, Deans,
Directors of Study, International Relations Officers
and Student Representatives who are successful
in introducing the Bologna Higher Education
Reform in their institutions.

12. The Experts
‣ The National Teams of Bologna Experts
From the European Union, EEA countries (Iceland,
Liechtenstein and Norway) and candidate countries for
membership of the European Union (Croatia, former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey).
‣ The Higher Education Reform Experts
From all Tempus partners in Western Balkan countries,
Southern Mediterranean countries, Eastern European
countries, Caucasian countries, Russia and Central Asian
countries.

13. Objectives and Activities
‣ Reinforcing communication and coordination of
the National Teams of Bologna Experts and of the
Higher Education Reform Experts
‣ 5 training seminars (2-3 days) including
workshops for the Bologna Experts and the
Higher Education Reform Experts
‣ 5 regional workshops (1-2 days) in selected
Tempus partner countries

14. Structure
The Virtual Community The Experts
The Seminars

15. The Virtual Community

16. A space for remote collaboration

18. Based on Open Atrium

19. Almost everything is private
Individual access with personal password

20. Groups
‣ Experts are divided in groups
‣ An expert belongs to one or more groups
‣ A Common Space for global announcements and
discussions
‣ National groups
‣ Seminar groups
‣ Interest groups

21. The Common Space
An Overview

28. Collaboration features
From Open Atrium

29. Discussions

31. Calendar

33. Email Noti cation

35. Custom Collaboration features

36. Advanced user pro les

42. Advanced search for experts

50. Mapping Integration

62. Conferences

63. Conferences
‣ Besides Virtual Community, experts meet in
person
‣ Ten conferences over two years
‣ Every conference needs a dedicated website

64. The Conference Template
‣ A fully configurable template for conference
websites
‣ Preconfigured with an agreed structure, but
customizable
‣ Conference organizers add the content
independently
‣ Packaged as a Drupal distribution

65. Single authentication
‣ Experts use their username and password from
the Virtual Community on all sites
‣ Registrations to conferences are done with the
same username and password
‣ A password or personal data change is
immediately propagated to all sites

72. Single Authentication
The Expert The Seminars The Virtual Community

73. Single Authentication
The Expert The Seminars The Virtual Community

74. Single Authentication
The Expert The Seminars The Virtual Community
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75. Single Authentication
The Expert The Seminars The Virtual Community
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76. Single Authentication
The Expert The Seminars The Virtual Community
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77. How we work
The "Features" model

78. Open Atrium out of the box.

79. Open Atrium as a fully customized private group.

80. The "Features" model
‣ Every piece of existing and custom functionality
is packaged as a "feature"
‣ Features can be individually enabled or disabled
in a modular way
‣ Even group-by-group

81. Questions?

82. Thank You.
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