Lessons Learned from the Swedish Introduction of HERM

10 pages•Published: November 6, 2025

Gerolf Nauwerck, Johan Flid Fridell, Catrin Karling, Henric Thisell, Julia Benjaminsson, Ola Ljungkrona and Per Hörnblad

Abstract

This paper presents experiences from the work undertaken by the Swedish Enterprise Architecture Group in introducing the Higher Education Reference Model into the Swedish context. The paper highlights practical challenges and discusses possible ways forward. The overarching conclusion is that currently adaptation will continue on the institutional, rather than national level.

Keyphrases: enterprise architecture, higher education reference model (herm), localisation

In: Laurence Desnos, Raimund Vogl, Lazaros Merakos, Carmen Diaz, Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Stuart Mclellan (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2025 annual congress in Belfast, vol 107, pages 136-145.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/h5Dm
	https://doi.org/10.29007/x6hv

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2025:Lessons_Learned_from_Swedish,
  author    = {Gerolf Nauwerck and Johan Flid Fridell and Catrin Karling and Henric Thisell and Julia Benjaminsson and Ola Ljungkrona and Per Hörnblad},
  title     = {Lessons Learned from the Swedish Introduction of HERM},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2025 annual congress in Belfast},
  editor    = {Laurence Desnos and Raimund Vogl and Lazaros Merakos and Carmen Diaz and Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Stuart Mclellan},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {107},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/h5Dm},
  doi       = {10.29007/x6hv},
  pages     = {136-145},
  year      = {2025}}

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