Information Technology Governance for Tunisian Universities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Information Technology Governance for Tunisian Universities

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Information Technology (IT) is a key aspect for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). IT is present in almost all HEIs activities and, as a result of this importance, is a strategic asset that needs to be managed in an effective and efficient way. Moreover, IT will transform the way education is delivered, managed and accessed by students. On the other hand, IT Governance is one of the concerns for organizations all over the world. IT Governance is the organizational capacity to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of business and IT. Apart from generic IT Governance models and standards (COBIT, Calde-Moir, ISO/IEC 38500, …), literature reported several efforts on IT Governance for HEIs, being University-oriented IT Governance Frameworks in Spain, one of the most important, cited and recent ones [1] and the pioneering work from Juiz [2]. This project is aimed to gather a set of researchers from four european universities with a wide experience in developing and deploying IT Governance (including ITG4U and dFogit) framework models from three different countries (Spain, Germany and Norway) to develop, adapt and test a new IT governance framework to be implemented in several Universities in Tunisia. Expected results of this project include a better governance model for IT in Tunisian HEIs as well as an overall modernization of the governance processes for HEIs and a contribution of the cooperation between EU and Tunisia. [1] Hontoria, E., Fernández, A., & de-la-Fuente, M. V.. Method for IT Governance Based on Enterprise Modelling. In Industrial Engineering: Innovative Networks (pp. 219-226). Springer London, pp. 219-226, 2012.[2] New Engagement Model of IT Governance and IT Management for the Communication of the IT Value at EnterprisesDigital Enterprise and Information Systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 194, pp. 129-143, 2011

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 525741 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS & Country: ES

Project Partners

• SFAX UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITE DE GABES
• UNIVERSITE DE LA MANOUBA
• SRH HOCHSCHULEN BERLIN GMBH
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA
• HOGSKOLEN I OSTFOLD