KI:connect.nrw, a shared regional portal for generative AI
A central portal offers generative AI applications to all universities in North Rhine-Westphalia and is accessible to both staff and students. The arrangement answers procurement, access and cost at the level of a state system rather than leaving each university to negotiate separately.
Record
- Level
- Macro
- Domain
- Infrastructure, Tools and Procurement
- Institution
- Digitale Hochschule NRW
- Country
- Germany
- Context
- Higher education
- Maturity
- Established
- Scalability
- Embedded
- Transferability
- Established
- Source report
- D3.2
Source trail
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- 01D3.2 · Report on trends and policies and practices on the use of LLMs and generative AI in the partnership: Report 2ADMIT (Erasmus+, EADTU)p. 42Quotation located in the source
It offers a central portal for generative AI applications to all universities in North Rhine-
The sentence establishes the scope of the portal, which is what makes it a system-level rather than an institutional practice.
- 02R3 · Report on trends in policies and practices on the use of LLMs and generative AI in the partnership: Third report (draft)ADMIT (Erasmus+, EADTU)Section 3.2.1Quotation located in the source
Use of Ki-connect.nrw has increased, as has the individual use of various LLMs
Independent corroboration a round later distinguishes continued operation from an announcement.
Evidence
The reported evidence on the effect of the practice. Evidentiary strength varies between practices; it is reproduced here as the source reports it.
The institution reports the portal as in use, and a respondent in the third round independently reports increased use of the same service.