Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
Jisc is a not-for-profit organisation: Our vision is to lead the UK tertiary education, research and innovation sectors to be pioneers in the use of digital technology and data. Our purpose is to harness the power of technology and data to transform how knowledge is created, shared and applied.
EU Legislative Interests
Regulation of networks and networked services, state funding and procurement; Research policy: Horizon Europe, Open Science, European Open Science Cloud, Research Infrastructures; Digital policy: Digital Single Market, Digital Services Act, European Open Science Cloud, e-Infrastructures, Digital Europe, cloud services, EuroHPC, Connecting Europe Facility; Personal Data; GDPR; Copyright; Artificial Intelligence; Technical standards
Communication Activities
Project related dissemination
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
GEANT Association EGI Stichting EUDAT CDI OpenAire RDA Europe Knowledge Exchange EOSC Association OPERAS AISBL Open Forum Europe
Organisation Members
Representative and institutional members Our constitution allows for two classes of membership. Representative members One class comprises representative members. They are Jisc’s original members and guarantors - the Association of Colleges (AoC), GuildHE and Universities UK (UUK). Each of these representative members holds 30% of the voting rights. Institutional members The other class of membership comprises institutional members, which is open to all eligible higher and further education institution across the UK. This class collectively hold 10% of the voting rights. Universities UK has 30% voting rights Guild HE representative members of Jisc has 30% voting rights Association of Colleges has 30% voting rights HEIs and FECs from across the UK have 10% voting rights Our representative members each nominate one person to the board and act collectively to appoint the chair. Each representative member also sits on the funders and owners group which provides advice to our trustees and leadership team.