Terminates contract for New-SIS
The Minister for Science, Higher Education, and Digital Affairs calls the situation serious after the termination of the contract for a new joint studies administration programme for the universities. Aarhus University is outside the collaboration and is not directly affected.
On Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Digital Affairs announced that the universities' joint study administration initiative, called the New SIS-programme, will not come to fruition and will be closed.
This was announced in a press release (In Danish, ed.), in which the ministry states that the contract between the steering committee behind the development of the programme and the supplier Fluido is being terminated.
The Minister for Science, Higher Education, and Digital Affairs calls the situation serious. The implications of the discontinued collaboration must now be examined, while the current systems will continue to support the study administration for the time being.
However, the termination of New SIS will have no impact on Aarhus University. AU chose to stay out of the collaboration on New SIS, as it had different wishes for a study administration system than those that were part of the development of New SIS.
"The New SIS project is separate from the AU SIS project, and therefore the termination of the contract will have no immediate consequences for our project at Aarhus University," says Head of Educational Administrative Systems, Trine Kvitzau.
Aarhus University instead chose Oracle Campus Solution as a replacement for the current STADS, and the system is expected to be implemented during 2027.
For the seven universities involved in the collaboration on New SIS, the situation is different. Since taking over the project from the ministry in 2021, the seven universities have worked together on the development of a joint system that would contain all study administration data and help handle registration for courses and exams.
But now the project has run into problems that are so big that they have chosen to pull the plug completely and terminate the contract. A situation the minister is taking seriously.
“There is no reason to hide the fact that the situation is serious. It goes without saying that when the contract ends, it is because there are challenges. From here, I am concerned with two things: That the financial loss is limited as much as possible, and that there is well-functioning IT support for the area. Due to the legal process, I cannot say more at this time, unfortunately," says Christina Egelund (M) in the statement.
This text is machine translated and post-edited by Mie Skov Jeppesen.