.digital office - facilitating and encouraging digitalization!

The .digital office coordinates the implementation process of the digitalization strategy and is responsible for facilitating and designing implementation measures and specific digitalization projects. In doing so, the .digital office supports the institutes and departments in the implementation of these projects and ensures the interconnecting of existing digital competences at TU Wien in order to avoid redundancies and to ensure cost efficiency.

Digital Survival Café

[Translate to English:] Hängebrücke, Jungel

Take part in the Digital Survival Café and geht yourself connected you with contact persons for all digital issues at TU Wien! Every second Thursday, experts answer your questions on topics related to collaboration, digitalization, web presence, information security and much more. Topics and dates are kept up to date at TU coLAB, opens an external URL in a new window.

Digitalization projects

[Translate to English:] Digitalzation projects at TU Wien

The .digital office coordinates, supports and connects various projects within the scope of the digitalization strategy.

Objectives of the digital transformation

Digitalisation Objectives

TU Wien's digitalization strategy  has defined objectives in the areas of research, studying and teaching, administration and infrastructure which are to be realized. These objectives can be condensed into a number of core topics: digital skills, smart campus, data, analytics & prediction as well as platforms and networks.

Collaboration

[Translate to English:] collaboration

Digital tools can be used to make working together with colleagues and in teams a lot simpler. At TU Wien, various new services are currently developed to facilitate collaboration even more.

Events

[Translate to English:] Information update events

.digital roadshow and .digital updates - jointly designing the digital transformation

Team

[Translate to English:] .digital office team

You can find your contact persons at the .digital office here

Current .dblog posts

The .digital blog offers posts on interesting topics on digitalization matters in general and the digital transformation at TU Wien in particular:

With 2021 come the next steps in the digitalization strategy

The digital transformation process will also continue at full speed this year. The benchmarks that TU Wien continues to use as its orientation will play a key role. Focus groups will also be actively involved once again in organising these next steps.

[Translate to English:] Ausblick 2021 Digitalisierung TU Wien

Even though we already have a few weeks of the new year under our belt, I would still like to take the opportunity to give you a taste of what I have resolved to do this year in my role with the digitalization agenda in mind. For me, the issue of benchmarking is central to 2021. In recent months, much has already been done in the domain of digitalization, so now is a good time to measure ourselves against our European benchmarks and use these as a guide for the next steps in our transformation process.

A focus on measures and their broad development

As you heard at the end of last year in the .digital update, we are taking the objectives set out in the digitalization strategy as the basis for deriving new measures. These will then be implemented step-by-step. This process will keep us busy, particularly in the first half of 2021. These measures can be performed in all areas of TU Wien; ultimately digitalization will involve all areas. This is why the focus groups will play such a key part in this process: they map the overarching themes of digitalization from the various areas and carefully integrate them into their subject fields. From their previous work in their respective focus group, they have identified problem areas and future topics that may in turn lead to measures for the whole of TU Wien.

Some of these topics have already been picked up on and used as examples in the first phase of TU Wien's digitalization project, .dcalls. This made it possible to identify initial subject clusters, such as Jupyter infrastructure and Smart Campus, and work on them in pilot projects. The task now is to take another close look at the objectives in the respective subject areas for the digitalization strategy, compare previous experiences and learnings from the projects and clarify or redefine what is required. As we are no longer starting from scratch with many subjects, we can develop many of them more broadly this year: pilot projects can be used more widely at TU Wien, application enhancements can be oriented more towards services, and tried-and-tested solutions can be made available in a standard directory, many of these being in teaching.

We will, of course, identify other points of focus and prioritise topics. To ensure that we don't just work on the premise of an internal TU perspective, the benchmarks that have guided TU Wien in outlining its digitalization strategy will continue to make a relevant contribution to our work. The experience we have gained and the newly defined measures will ultimately provide us with reference points for issues that can be worked on through the next phase of the .dcall call for projects.

I am really looking forward to starting work on the forthcoming developments with you! We shall also continue to work together on the next steps in the digital transformation process!