Student mobility SIG workshop – Tuesday 4 June

Pre Conference workshop on Student Mobility:
‘Progress Made and Challenges to Beat’

This workshop will feature a variety of initiatives and projects that work to establish the optimal exchange of study and student information, internationally. Represented projects and delegates from HEIs will share updates, compare views and work on challenges to realise the benefits.

The workshop objectives are:
– to inform participants about the status and results of the various projects,
– to clarify how HEI’s can engage and enjoy the benefit of available infrastructure and tools
– to better understand and promote the benefits of standardisation and digitisation
– to discuss technical and organisational challenges

 

Program

 
MORNING SESSION
09:00 – 09:30
Registration
 
Student mobility SIG workshop – Introduction and overview
09:30 – 09:40
Welcome and introduction to the workshop programme
09:40 – 09:55
Student Mobility: an overview

  • Aims, benefits and perspectives
  • Expectations and guidelines
  • Challenges, required responses and actions re
    1. Interoperability between HEIs and in administration
    2. Advancing towards integrated and digitized universities

Part 1. Erasmus Going Digital. Interoperability challenges and integration
From the perspective of EWP and ESC, address:

  • Interoperability and standards
  • Digitalized processes
  • Improve efficiency, optimization of resources and efforts
  • Achieve security in inter-system communication
09:55 – 10:45

What is EWP and why it matters?!

  • Aims and minimum requirements of the Erasmus programme post-2020
  • Current state of EWP: architecture (registry, existing APIs and their functionality)
  • EWP Connections and dependencies: Online Learning Agreement; Erasmus Dashboard; Erasmus App
  • EWP’s Future. Upcoming developments
10:45 – 11:25
What is ESC and what issues does it solve?

  • Aims and requirements
  • Current state of ESC: architecture and functionality
  • ESC’s Future
11:25 – 11:45
From perspective of Open Source University Alliance
Adress:

  • aims and requirements
  • current state
  • future
11:45 – 12:15
Plenary Q&A and discussion

  • HEI admission procedures to the projects/network
  • Expected HEI policy measures
  • Technical requirements
  • Integration issues
12:15 – 12:45
Plenary feedback on outcomes
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch
 
AFTERNOON SESSION
13:30 – 13:45
Registration
13:45 – 14:00
Welcome, update on part 1 and introduction part 2
Part 2. Advancing towards integrated and digitalized universities
From the perspective of (invited) projects EMREX, ESMO, MyAcademidID, SEAL, OpenU, Blockchain initiatives
Adress:

  • Shared credentials
  • Favour student mobility
  • Incorporate emergent technologies
14:00 – 14:25

What is EMREX and what issues does it solve?!

  • Aims and requirements
  • Current state of EMREX: architecture and functionality
  • EMREX connections and dependencies
  • EMREX’s Future. Upcoming developments
14:25 – 15:00

Introduction round (each project 5 mins/3 slides)

  • Aims, benefits, deliverables
  • Connections with other projects
  • Integration issues
15:00 – 15:20
Break
15:20 – 16:00
Plenary Q&A and SWOT discussion (4 times 10 mins)
16:00 – 16:45

Group discussion (2 groups, 45 mins)

  • Main strengths/opportunities: how best to proceed
  • Main weaknesses/threats: how to mitigate/neutralise
16:45 – 17:00
Plenary feedback on outcomes
17:00 – 17:15
Next steps SIG Student Mobility and closure