Academic System Resource Planning: A Fully-Automated Smart Campus Erasmus Project

Project Title

Academic System Resource Planning: A Fully-Automated Smart Campus

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project aims at creating a Quality-Tailored ICT-based smart automated academic university environment infiltrating the global perspective of Quality Assurance and Best Practices for university management within the HE system in EG through the design and development of a smart digital platform for monitoring, analysis and control of internal processes allowing for transparency, efficient management of human and capital resources, fact-based decision making, yielding a HEI model with Education Quality KPIs being the controlling metrics for its automated processes, rendering Education Quality an INHERENT feature in ALL actions occurring within.The proposed automated system starts with identification of the inputs, outputs and procedures of all academic and administrative processes and quantification of performance metrics along with the KPIs and associated Education Quality criteria to be compatible with the proposed automatic control algorithm for university automation. A set of university-wide control variables are defined, which influence the performance of each and every process within the HEI. Processes such as academic, administrative, stakeholders’ relations, student affairs, Quality Assurance and university management decision making are fully computerized and programmed with inputs, outputs and performance metrics that are used in a feedback closed-loop control to map against model values prescribed by the national Quality Assurance criteria and KPIs for Best Practice models. Any deviation in the performance metrics is spotted automatically and corrective actions are either taken autonomously, or via HEI decision making system to close this gap. Via the proposed system, HEI management shall have instantaneous access to the current Quality-Tailored performance within the institution, allowing for fast, fact-based decision making. Quality Assurance authority shall have a real-time remote visual access to the Quality-based KPIs at the participating EG HEIs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 957900 Eur

Project Coordinator

AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY & Country: EG

Project Partners

• STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY
• EQAA EUROPEAN QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCY UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRANKT)
• NILE UNIVERSITY
• THE NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE AND ACCREDITATION OF EDUCATION
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN
• ASWAN UNIVERSITY
• SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY