The Digital Transformation Office's 2-year anniversary: a look backThe Digital Transformation Office (DTO/BfD) is celebrating its two-year anniversary. During this time, it has helped promote digital transformation processes, supported numerous projects with a digital focus, and established itself as a key player in the development of innovative solutions.https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/organization/admin/staff-div/stw/bfd-en/currevents/2yearshttps://www.uni-giessen.de/@@site-logo/logo.png
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The Digital Transformation Office's 2-year anniversary: a look back
The Digital Transformation Office (DTO/BfD) is celebrating its two-year anniversary. During this time, it has helped promote digital transformation processes, supported numerous projects with a digital focus, and established itself as a key player in the development of innovative solutions.
While the DTO continues to focus on shaping the digital future of JLU, we would like to take this opportunity to look back on our successes so far:
Digital Transformation Strategy
In close cooperation with the executive board, staff divisions and departments, the DTO developed a university-wide Digital Transformation Strategy and published it in both German and English in autumn of 2023 after involving all committees. With three activities, nine major goals, 25 subgoals and 66 measurable indicators, JLU's digital course was set for the next seven years.
Digital Pact projects
Supporting and continuously developing 13 Digital Pact projects with a total budget of over 5.5 million euros is helping significantly modernize our infrastructure. The projects are in the areas of teaching, research, administration, and IT infrastructure.
myJLU app
JLU's campus app bundles systems relevant to our students into one application, provides them with a wide range of information via various feeds, lets them book sports courses via a mobile application, and more. The myJLU app, which the DTO played a key role in launching, was released in December 2022. Over 9,500 users now keep themselves up to date with this app—and the trend is rising.
Digital processes
After helping convert the paper sick slip into a digital format, the DTO supported the replacement of many more analog forms with web-based ones. Our efforts to switch from paper-based processes to web forms were rewarded with JLU's Sustainability Award in December 2023. The DTO was also instrumental in converting the Circulars of the President into a more efficient, sustainable, bilingual digital format.
Digital Spring Cleaning
At the beginning of spring 2023, the DTO organized a Digital Spring Cleaning for the first time. The event sought to tidy up e-mail inboxes and digital storage. Due to its great success, we held another one at the beginning of spring 2024: This event successfully cleaned up JLU websites. Over the course of the day, more than 2,000 links that were no longer usable were removed.
Digital Day program
JLU has participated in the annual nationwide Digital Day since 2022. The DTO coordinated the program in 2023. With 24 activities on the topic of 'digital transformation', JLU was able to demonstrate its digital expertise in the areas of teaching, research, and administration. With this balanced, multi-layered program, JLU clearly stood out from the other universities in Hessen.
The DTO is optimistic about the future and promises to be a continuous driving force in digital development at JLU and to contribute actively to digital transformation. At the same time, we would like to thank everyone who has contributed to these successes, and we look forward to continuing our digital journey together.
