For the second time this month, developers gathered in Warsaw for the so-called EWP developers workshop.
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.
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
EWP: Specifications, Validators and Tools
The following chapters and tools are written by developers and for developers.
Erasmus+ App current description
The app serves as a single entry point for students to plan and execute their exchange, helping both students and institutions by providing timely info, event sharing, and customization of mobility steps.
Functionality of the EWP Network from a business perspective
The functionality of the EWP Network is defined by its APIs (Advanced Programming Interfaces), i.e. services (specified in GitHub) which can be used by network participants to exchange data.
ESCI Community Service Desk update September
The ESCI Service Desk has been supporting the higher education community and students for over 5 months by answering questions concerning the EWP Dashboard, Erasmus Without Paper, the Erasmus App and the Online Learning Agreement.
Q&A report Town Hall meeting 22/08/2022
On the 22nd of August the EWP+ Consortium organised a so-called Town Hall meeting.
First workshop for EWP-developers took place in Warsaw
Last week, mobility software providers gathered in Warsaw to jointly review, discuss and test the implementation of specific functionalities and business processes to exchange IIAs and LAs.
EWP by and for universities: governance to further digitise the Erasmus administration
The primary purpose of the EWP governance structures is to ensure that all aspects of the digitalisation of Erasmus+ administration can be steered effectively towards a successful completion.
Specific business user groups announced at Erasmus Goes Digital webinar
The latest sessions of the Erasmus Goes Digital webinars, hosted on Thursday 16/06, are available online via the EWP Competence Centre.