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About GUNi.HEiOBS
Sharing ideas ... Improving practices
What is GUNi.HEiOBS?
The GUNi Higher Education Innovation Observatory (GUNi.HEiOBS) promotes innovation and knowledge exchange in society and higher education institutions (HEIs) by identifying and disseminating global, regional and local higher education good practices an on-going projects.
GUNi.HEiOBS is aimed at contributing to the deployment of innovation and transformation at curriculum, research, outreach and institutional management and operations within Higher Education Institutions, by means of sharing and compiling on-going projects and practices and other useful materials and references and by strengthening South-South, North-South and South-North collaborations as a vehicle for change at HEIs.
GUNi.HEiOBS is a toolbox reflecting the experiences of various HEIs and other stakeholders focusing on innovation key transforming Higher Education Institutions.
What are the GUNI.HEiOBS main activities?
Offering...
.... effective tools to participate in the GUNi.KC actively by sharing your on-going projects and practices with other members of the community and to know, comment and rate other member’s practices and on-going projects they want to share.
The purpose of this tools are:
- Offer a platform where to get ifnormation about methodologies, others ideas and good practices and on-going projects and to publish and find call for partners proposals.
- To disseminate your institution’s good practices and on-going projects among the members of the GUNi-KC,
- To get feedback from a professional community that might be informed about similar experiences and that might have similar interests and backgrounds,
- To find and explore on-going projects good practices soa as to be inspired and informed
- To comment and rate good practices,
- To offer an overview on innovative HE good Practices all around the world in order to be able to position your actions and your institutions and to find peers.
Identifying...
... good practices and on-going projects in higher education institutions that contribute to transform HEIs and posting them by means of building a complete map of the state of innovation in the process of transforming HEIs worldwide.
Disseminatin...
... these good practices and on-going projects through the HEiOBS web platform and by means of activities undertaken by GUNi (newsletter, publications, international conferences, reports, research initiatives, etc.).
Linking...
... with other organisations, institutions and observatories to share information and contribute to strengthening the dissemination of practices, projects and debates on the innovative transformation of HEIs.
GUNi.HEiOBS has established links with the following observatories and resource centres that carry out related activities:
All entries on the AUQA Good Practice Database are searchable by topic. 
The database contains more than sixty entries on topics such as community and industry engagement, indigenous issues and support services, which highlight the social commitment of higher education providers in Australia and New Zealand.
The database contains more than sixty entries on topics such as community and industry engagement, indigenous issues and support services, which highlight the social commitment of higher education providers in Australia and New Zealand.
The Telescopi CUDU is an observatory of good practices in the area of university administration and management. Its principal objectives are to share successful experiences and maintain a benchmarking platform for HEIs in Europe and Latin America. Its bank of good practice experiences covers seven different thematic areas: strategy; people; alliances and resources; leadership; processes, products and services; clients; and results. Who can participate at GUNi.HEiOBS?
Everybody working in the Higher Education Institutions in every field and discipline could contribute to the aims of GUNi.HEiOBS, as i.e. researchers, providers of campus education, actors in local and regional development processes, government bodies, non-governmental organisations, international institutions, university networks, civil society organisations, students, educators and entrepreneurs, etc.
We are open to receive your proposal of collaboration. Email us and together we will work in reaching an agreement of collaboration.
What are the benefits of sharing good practices and on-going projects?
Your good practices and on-going projects will be disseminated in a friendly and informal way targeted to people who are working in your field. The community will give you feedback by commenting and rating your practice, recognising and acknowledging your efforts, and by giving you ideas for further development which may lead to future collaboration.
By sharing your good practices and on-going projects you may be invited to participate in further research in the framework of GUNi activities project and your practices may be referred and later quoted in research reports and articles. HEiOBS will help you better understand your positioning in the global HE panorama in the specific field you are interested in while offering you a wide and complete panorama of the state of innovation in the process of transforminh HEIs.
Good practice
A good practice provides innovative improvements and solutions to situations or problems that arise in the higher education institution’s internal or external context. It includes an innovative approach in its design, implementation, orientation, etc.
Good practices should meet the following general criteria:
- Have arisen from the identification of a problem or opportunity in the framework of priority local and/or global challenges of societies. As far as possible, there should be a prior diagnosis or process of study and analysis that ensures the suitability of the project design.
- Offer an innovative response. An experience is innovative when it represents an adaptation and/or fine-tuning of functions and activities carried out by the higher education institutions.
- Offer a socially sustainable relevant response.
- Include the active participation of the higher education institution’s community (students, researchers, teachers or managers in some of the university bodies). Have contributions and partnerships to ensure that a particular project is coordinated with the society in the relevant field. Collaborators should participate significantly in the experience.
In addition, there is a set of formal criteria, which ensure that the good practice can be transferred. The good practices should:
- Have been implemented for no less than six months, in order to check whether the plan is in line with initial results.
- Be sustainable in terms of use of resources, institutional support, or the degree of formalization of legal aspects and regulations, to ensure the long-term impact of the experience.
On-going projects
On-going projects are designed to provide GUNi.KC members, higher education institutions and organizations with tools and features to highlight their initiatives, objectives, challenges and progress within a unique online space. Differently from good practices, given that they are new projects or on-going projects, they will also have an additional space where to publish offers and demands as i.e call for partners, related to the project.
The general criteria for the on-going projects is the same that applies for the good practices although they will not asked to have been implemented for a period of time. We are looking for projected projects or on-going projects.
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