Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the University of Bayreuth
The digitization of university processes continues to advance. The University of Bayreuth also takes this topic seriously. It has therefore created the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) who pulls together all the threads of the University’s IT strategy.
What does the CIO do?
Constitution of the University of Bayreuth, §22 para 4: “1The Chief Information Officer (CIO) shall develop the IT strategic goals and implementation concepts for a common IT management of the University of Bayreuth in an ongoing process of updating. 2The CIO reports to the Presidential Advisory Committee for Information & Communication Technology and makes recommendations. 3The CIO is either the University of Bayreuth's Vice President for Digitization, Innovation & Sustainability or a university lecturer from among the active professors or junior professors. 4The CIO and his or her deputy shall be appointed by the University Governing Board for a term of three years.”
Who is the CIO?
Prof. Dr. Torsten Eymann has been appointed CIO of the University of Bayreuth for the period from 01.09.2021 to 31.8.2024.
You can reach him at cio@uni-bayreuth.de or 0921/55-7661.
How do CIOs at other universities throughout Bavaria and Germany work together?
The CIOs and university computer centres of the Bavarian universities work together across university types in the "Digitalverbund Bayern". This was founded in 2022 as part of the Higher Education Innovation Act. You will find more information on the Digitalverbund Bayern page from 2023.
Across Germany, higher education computing centres cooperate, for example, in the German Initiative for Network Information e.V. (DINI) and the Centres for Communication and Information Processing e.V.. The CIOs contribute their views in the Higher Education Forum on Digitization as well as in the Hochschul-CIO e.V. (Higher Education CIO Association).
- To the website of the Digitalverbund Bayern (currently under construction)
- To the website of the German Initiative for Network Information e.V. (DINI)
- To the website of the Centres for Communication and Information Processing e.V.
- To the website of the Higher Education Forum on Digitization
- To the website Hochschul-CIO e.V.
Areas of responsibility and further information
In the past five years, the University of Bayreuth has established itself as a pioneer and trailblazer among Bavarian and even German universities. For the years 2021-2025, our Digital Agenda shows how we want to develop further.
With our Campus Management System "CampusOnline" we cover the entire lifecycle of our students from the application to the printing of the degree certificate. To be able to enter and change data, we have two access points:
Manuals / Support mail
For direct help write an email to cmhelp@uni-bayreuth.de.
To support classroom teaching, the University of Bayreuth has greatly expanded its digital teaching since 2020. Our students can find teaching materials for almost all degree programmes on our Moodle-based e-learning teaching platform. Videos and recordings of courses are also linked there or can be accessed directly via INSERT LINK. Lecturers can find more information on the ITS website.
Some general information as well as teaching materials for courses offerd by CampusAkademie and the Centre for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education can be found in e-Learning:
The University's internal communication takes place via various channels. You can reach the administrative units, chairs and professors via their official email addresses, which you can find on the University's website.
General information, the cafeteria schedule and registration for sports courses can be found via the UBT-app.
Please note that for security reasons internal e-mail addresses, including students' bt addresses, are not forwarded to external providers such as Gmail, Web.de or Gmx.de.
The Information Security Officer of the University of Bayreuth, Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Stöber, provides valuable information on his website. The University takes the security of its students and staff very seriously and offers regular training courses on this. The dates and announcements can also be found on the website.
In case of suspected infection of your computer or system:
- gleich Netzwerkkabel ziehen bzw. WLAN deaktivieren
- ITS-Anlaufstelle im IT-Servicezentrum benachrichtigen:
- Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3003
- E-mail: its-beratung@uni-bayreuth.de
- Online: Support form
The security of your personal data is monitored by the data protection officer. You can contact the data protection officer at datenschutz@uni-bayreuth.de.
Further information as well as a manual on how to use the PATRON FLEX software to enter data into the procedure directory can be found in e-Learning.
Access options for university members: The University of Bayreuth provides access to ChatGPT and DALL-E via the existing Microsoft 365 A3 campus licence. You can log in there with your existing University of Bayreuth bt account. If you use Copilot registered in this way, you benefit from compliance with European data protection guidelines and copyright law. Copilot uses ChatGPT for text generation and DALL-E for image generation. More detailed information can be found on the website of the IT Service Centre.