The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced the successful bids for their capital programme funding initiative. The pot of £5.5 million has now been allocated to 27 projects for e-learning, e-infrastructure and repositories and preservation programmes. JISC is a committee organisation for the UK Higher (HE) and Further Education (FE) funding bodies that delivers Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
JISC’s head of development, Sarah Porter said, “These projects, the first to be funded through the capital programme will enhance our core activities as well as further supporting the education and research community’s engagement with ICT.”
The repositories and preservation programme received funding for 11 projects and will be managed by the Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) partnership at the University of Nottingham. The project will support and advise all HE and FE institutions in England and Wales for developing and implementing digital repositories.
Other initiatives aim to enhance the national e-infrastructure of access management and build upon the foundations laid out by previously funded JISC programmes. Focus will be on security and identity management. This initiative will be led by Cardiff and Leeds Universities respectively and partnered by the London School of Economics (LSE).
In the e-learning field 13 projects will receive investment for linking with the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) Lifelong Learning Network, with particular attention spent on the exploration of technological potential in enhancing learning and teaching by linking FE and HE institutions together.
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