Known Issues in EWP Data Exchanges

Known Issues in EWP Data Exchanges

Known issues

The table below outlines common data exchange issues (called interoperability issues) reported by users via the ESCI Service Desk. If you exchange data with clients using the providers below, note these issues may affect data exchanges.

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Provider

Process

Short description

Reported since

CACI IIA Issue with IIA approval process: IIA copies/versions are different on both sides and parter is not able to receive IIA approval. The agreement on both sides must be identical before it can be approved, 2025, July
CINECA IIA IIAs copies/versions are different on both sides. Cineca client is unable to fetch their partners’ updated IIA with the latest changes. 2025, October
CINECA IIA Lack of data validation: missing language requirements element. Without language requirements for student mobility for studies and/or staff mobility for teaching it is not possible to complete the agreement. 2025, May
Digitalis Informatica, Lda LA In the EWP network there is a protocol to handle errors. Provider has a general issue with one of the error responses. 2024, July
Digitalis Informatica, Lda LA Lack of data validation: missing family name. Family name is a field required by the technical EWP specification. If this field is missing in a learning agreement, it won’t be possible to exchange this learing agreement. 2023, November
KION IIA Issue with IIA approval process. Required element in the IIA approval get response “iias-approval-response/approval/iia-id” is missing. If the IIA has not been approved yet, the approval element must be omitted, otherwise the technical EWP-message is invalid. 2025, October
KION IIA In the EWP network there is a protocol to handle errors. Provider has an issue with one of the error responses. 2025, October
KION IIA Issue with so called iia-hash. On a technical level hashes need to match before users can proceed with the approval of inter-institutional agreement 2025, June
KION LA Lack of data validation: invalid birth-date format. It is not possible to exchange a learning agremeent with an invalid birth-date. 2025, May
Mobility-Online IIA IIA Approvals lost – Several IIAs are mutually approved on partner’s side but in Mobility-Online not. 2025, September
Mobility-Online IIA Mobility-Online return error response or timeouts to approval requests from partner 2025, May
Mobility-Online LA LA update approval fails – Provider returns an error when their partner attempts to approve and updated LA. 2025, October
Mobility-Online LA Lack of data validation: components recognized is missing on LA. An LA for long-term studies always need to contain table A (compontens-studied) and table B (components recognized). If table B is missing, it is not possible to exchange the learning agreement 2025, October
QS MoveON IIA Lack of data validation: missing language requirements element 2025, May
SIGMA IIA In the EWP network there is a protocol to handle errors. Provider has an issue with one of the error responses. 2025, October
SIGMA IIA ISCED codes and institutional data disappears from the IIA. 2025, June
SIGMA IIA SIGMA shares an ID for IIAs but when partner tries to retrieve this IIA it received an error response that it does not exist. 2025, January
SIGMA IIA Empty cooperation-conditions element, invalid emails and invalid ISCED 2024, November
SIGMA IIA Issue with IIA-ids. IIA-ids are a technical identifier for agreements. They play an important role in the IIA exchange and approval. If there is an issue with those IIA-ids, it is impossible to approve the agreement. 2024, October
SIGMA LA Issue with technical ID of versions. A new LA version with changes was created using the same changes proposal ID as the previous approved first-version. The changes proposal ID must be updated whenever the changes proposal content changes. 2025, October
SIGMA LA General issue dealing with new LA versions after initial approval. 2025, September
SIGMA LA Ounit name tag (reference to faculty/department) is missing from the sending-hei section in the technical EWP response by SIGMA. 2025, July
SIGMA LA Lack of data validation: invalid EQF level It is not possible to exchange a learning agremeent with an invalid EQF-level 2025, June
SIGMA OUnits Uses the same ounit code for two different ounit-ids. The codes always must be a unique value. 2025, July
Universidad de Oviedo IIA Lack of data validation: missing language skills in cooperation conditions. Language is a required field for student mobility for studies and staff mobility for teaching. 2025, June
Universitat Ramon Llull IIA Invalid IIA – The IIA contains cooperation condition 3 digit isced codes and this is not compliant with the technical EWP specification. ISCED codes need to have 4 digits. 2025, October
University of Almeria LA University of Almeria automatically rejects OLAs without a review from the user. 2025, April
University of The Basque Country LA Invalid LA message shared – Approved-changes and changes-proposal contain only the signatures without any courses inside. According to the technical EWP specification courses always need to be included in the message. 2025, July

Issues considered to be solved

The issues in the table below were reported previously but have not occurred in the last three months. Since no new tickets about these issues have been created in the ESCI Service Desk during this period, the EWP+ Consortium considers the issue resolved.

Provider Process Short description Reported since
Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis IIA Issue with so called iia-hash. On a technical level hashes need to match before users can proceed with the approval of inter-institutional agreement 2024, September
Be Smart s.r.l. IIA IIA invalid XML response – IIA missing recommended language skill element – Lack of data validation: missing language requirements element 2025, May
Be Smart s.r.l. IIA Lack of data validation: invalid ISCED 2024, June
Be Smart s.r.l. IIA Lack of data validation: missing language requirements 2024, June
CACI LA OLA invalid XML response – Lack of data validation: status attribute in LAs is missing. 2025, May
Cantieri Informatici Srl LA OLA not received because the schema is invalid – Lack of data validation: missing citizenship 2025, May
Cantieri Informatici Srl LA OLA not received because the schema is invalid – Lack of data validation: invalid characters e.g. “&” 2025, May
CINECA IIA CINECA HEI does not get UGhent’s approval after several CNRs. 2025, May
CINECA IIA SSL certificate error 2025, April
CINECA IIA Double mapping IIAs – partner mapped several IIA ids with one agreement. 2025, April
Digitalis Informatica, Lda IIA Wrong/invalid approval get response – IIA hash is missing 2025, May
Digitalis Informatica, Lda IIA Empty cooperation-conditions element, invalid emails and invalid ISCED 2024, November
Ghent University IIA IIA invalid XML response – IIA missing recommended language skill element – Lack of data validation: missing language requirements element 2025, May
Mobility-Online IIA Mobility-Online clients were informed by their provider they must reapprove some of the inter-institutional agreements they had previously established with their partners. 2025, August
Mobility-Online LA 400 error response from Mobility-Online during las update (approval) request – General issue with EWP response. 2025, May
Mobility-Online LA Invalid OLA xml schema/response according to the EWP validator – Lack of data validation: Sending hei signature is missing in the first-version of the LA. 2025, May
Mobility-Online LA ESI student’s number changed after first-version of the LA – ESI before mobility is different from the ESI after mobility changes. 2025, May
Mobility-Online LA OLA in Mobility-Online contains wrong components in a short-term LAs. They have in their LA response only Table A <components-studied> without Table B <components-recognized/> instead of blended-mobility-components for ST LAs. 2025, March
UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA IIA IIA invalid XML response – IIA missing recommended language skill – Lack of data validation: missing language requirements 2025, January
UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA IIA Lack of data validation: invalid/incorrect IIA hash in IIA get 2024, October
XWS IIA IIA invalid XML response – IIA missing recommended language skill – Lack of data validation: missing language requirements 2025, May
XWS IIA  Lack of data validation: invalid IIA hash in IIA get 2025, May