Erasmus Without Paper

Erasmus Without Paper, also known as EWP, is an initiative by universities and for universities which is digitalising the administration of student mobility, with the goal of decreasing administrative workload by up to 40%. The European Commission is currently funding EWP and the custodians of the EWP digital infrastructure are:

University of Warsaw

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ghent University
Eötvös Loránd University
University of Porto

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EWP Network

The EWP Network is responsible for ensuring interoperability across all IT systems used to support the administration of student mobility in Europe. It is a decentralized network which ensures the highest privacy standards and allows for outstanding scalability, supporting more than 3000 nodes. It connects more than 99% of all universities supporting Erasmus+ student mobility.

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EWP Dashboard

The EWP Dashboard acts as the reference implementation for the entire network, meeting the highest standards of robustness and reliability. It is trusted daily by 2700 universities which value its seamless data exchange capabilities. Of the first six countries to reach 95% of Learning Agreements, the Dashboard is used by all universities in four countries and by 97% of universities in the remaining two.

Useful resources

Helpdesk

Competence Centre (for IROs)

EWP Developers Guide (for IT)

EWP Stats Portal

ESCI portal

Essential documents

Erasmus Without Paper Back to the Future – White Paper

Digital Erasmus+ Learning Agreement User Guide

Digital Erasmus+ Inter-institutional Agreement User Guide

EWP Assessment Report 2023

EWP Assessment Report 2022

News

Online Learning Agreement (OLA) Initiative Begins

The new version of the Online Learning Agreement platform has been released and is now available and within reach of the Erasmus Generation, as part of the digitisation process of the Erasmus+ programme.

Erasmus Without Paper (EWP) Project 1.0 Launch

The first EWP project (2015-2017) was launched, funded by Erasmus+ Key Action 3. Its core aim was to replace paper-based administrative workload with an electronic exchange of data, developing a blueprint and a proof of concept for the EWP Network infrastructure.

Erasmus Without Paper project overview

Erasmus Without Paper is a project co-funded by the the European Commission aiming to bring Erasmus administration into the 21st century by going digital.