A new, contemporary web presence for the university
With Drupal, we want to provide employees and researchers with a simple and flexible content management system. But we also want to convince prospective students and students with content of a completely new quality - with a website that is technically and visually up to date in line with our corporate design. The website meets the legal requirements of public institutions, including data protection and accessibility. And it meets the specific requirements of the university in terms of research, teaching, transfer (3rd mission) and internationality.
With so-called showcase pages, we address individual target groups directly and can better serve their information interests. Prospective students, students, researchers, cooperation partners and employees can easily access the content relevant to them via these pages.
In this way, we are creating a user-friendly website that makes research and teaching more visible and the University of Siegen more attractive overall.
Operational project management
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webrelaunch@uni-siegen.de
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0271 740-4780
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Contact
Sandro Abbate
Gabriel Klein
Timo Lindinger
Christian Trapp
Phases of the project
Kick-off and preparation
- Ongoing work meetings and exchange with digitalization, procurement, QZS, CISO, user committee, etc.
- April 2023: 1st steering committee meeting
- April-May 2023: Conduct market survey, acquisition of IT managers
Invitation to tender
- March - July 2023: Tender preparation
- June 2023: Kick-off event for IT managers, 2nd steering committee meeting
- July / August 2023: Finalization of the tender
- September 2023: Start of the tender
- April 2024: Commissioning of the project partners Progressive Digital and mc quadrat
Implementation phase
- May 2024: Start of the implementation phase, discovery workshop with participants from a broad spectrum of the university
- June - September 2024: Collection of requirements, conception, brand audit, stakeholder communication, 1st web café with over 80 participants from the university public, 6th steering committee meeting (decision on the scope of the first expansion stage)
- November 2024: Creation of web design drafts and a click dummy
- December 2024: 7th steering committee meeting (presentation and approval of the web design)
- January 2025: Launch of the CMS in a test environment
Migration of content
- May 2025: The new website is launched with information for the target groups of prospective students, students, researchers, cooperation partners and employees. In addition to information on degree programs and student advisory services, the faculty pages and central university pages are completed
- June 2025: Academic institutions and service facilities
- July 2025: Departments and seminars of the faculties
- August 2025: Professorships and prorectorates
- September 2025: University committees, bodies and representatives, services for citizens
- October 2025: Foundations, support associations and societies
Project organization
Governance
At a large and diverse institution like the University of Siegen, a project as complex as the web relaunch needs to be well organized. That is why we have developed a project governance system that involves as many faculties, institutions and target groups as possible while still working efficiently. In this way, we ensure that the new website meets the needs of our entire university community.
