Digitalisation Community

The Digitalisation Community aims to contribute to the next steps in the digital transformation process affecting higher education in general and international cooperation in particular by enabling members to identify challenges and priorities and share good practices and know-how.

 

More specifically, what are Digitisation Community sessions about? 

The topics will span from digital processes supporting student and staff mobility to (digital) access to student services. Discussions will also cover contributions to, anticipation of, and implementation of the digital transformation process. Indeed, the EUF network has a vast body of expertise in this area, having pioneered several European flagship initiatives, including Erasmus Without Paper, the Erasmus+ App, and MyAcademicID, to name but a few.

 

What to expect from Digitisation Community sessions?

Digitalisation Community sessions are conducted online, ensuring accessibility for everyone in the network. Physical meetings may also be organised when deemed relevant. Members of this Community will remain in regular contact on the above mentioned topics and will also explore new developments, projects, and initiatives that stand to enrich the digitalisation landscape at their institutions. 

 

Who can participate? 

International Relations Officers and colleagues working on the digital transition of higher education, particularly with regards to international mobility and cooperation, from EUF network universities are warmly invited to join the Community. Additionally, community membership is highly encouraged for heads of departments or their deputies for IT and International Relations offices to gain overall insights. 

Participation in the community will be operationalised through the registration to a mailing list. Would you like to join the EUF Digitalisation Community? Please sign-up here.

 

Calendar and Topics of Sessions

2024

  • September 24 | 10:30-12:00 CEST
    Topic: EWP Digital Nominations Beta Test Launch

Two groups of EUF universities have joined forces to carry out beta testing of the EWP nominations capability. Testing will start in earnest from late September onwards.

  • October 15 | 10:30-12:00 CEST
    Topic: EWP Digital Nominations Beta Test Stocktaking

This meeting will take stock of how the nominations beta testing is progressing and allow for an initial discussion of the findings.

  • November 5 | 10:30-12:00 CET
    Topic: Looking ahead to 2024 / 2025 – what to expect? 

This Community meeting will look into the EUF crystal ball regarding key developments expected to shape the digital transition of Erasmus+ in the academic year ahead, including ESCI phase II.

  • December 10 | 10:30-12:00 CET
    Topic: Results of the EWP Benchmarking survey

Earlier in 2024, EUF universities pooled their experiences regarding their satisfaction with the various IT tools they use to connect to EWP. In this Community meeting, we will present the final consolidated (and at times surprising!) results of this benchmarking exercise and discuss its consequences and next steps, including desired enhancements of the tools under our purview (e.g., EWP Dashboard).

2025

  • January 14  | 10:30-12:00 CET
    Topic: Digital sovereignty of universities vs data centralisation vs GDPR
  • February 11 | 10:30-12:00 CET
    Topic: Evaluating Courses Taken by Exchange Students and other Dashboard upgrades

This Community meeting will explore the important work by the AsCOLA project (led by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) on extending quality assurance processes to internationalisation use cases. A discussion will follow on how this and other functionalities will be made available to International Relations Offices.

  • March 11 | 10:30-12:00 CET
    Topic: Online Learning Agreements 2.0

The digitalisation of Learning Agreements has always been close to the heart of EUF universities, going back to the original LAOS pilot (2014) and OLA project (2015). In this Community session, we will take stock of how the current Online Leaning Agreements (OLAs) could be improved further, explore their correlation with the nomination process and assess the OLA for BIPs and internships.

  • April 22 | 10:30-12:00 CEST
    Topic: Integrating course catalogue data on digital mobility flows – state of play
  • May 13 | 10:30-12:00 CEST
    Topic: A simple approach to digital certificates of arrival/departure
  • June 10 | 10:30-12:00 CEST
    Topic: One Year of Digitalisation Community: Wrap-up and Reflections