Digitale Transformation und Innovation für Universitäten: Beitrag der Vertreter*innen des Forums Digitalisierung der Österreichischen Universitätenkonferenz (uniko)

Universities have pursued digital transformations proactively for decades, for example in the early initiatives of university libraries to digitise their collections. Such transformations have been greatly accelerated by COVID-19 and the digitalisation offensive of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). The latter supports cross-university networking and partnership-based implementation of 34 projects on digital and social transformation in research, teaching, transfer and administration. At the level of university management, the Forum Digitalisation strives for coherent action at universities with ambition and care. University libraries play a key role in bundling centralised and decentralised services, such as fostering open science and research data management.