With the European Commission’s announcement that Erasmus Without Paper (EWP) will be mandatory starting with the new Erasmus programme, many institutions are wondering how to digitise their Erasmus processes and just how difficult the transition will be.
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
Erasmus without Paper at Selcuk University
The Erasmus without Paper project was presented in cooperation with the Turkish Erasmus+ National Agency at Selcuk University, Konya on the 30 September 2019.
Erasmus Without Paper – LinkedIn group
Erasmus Without Paper has a LinkedIn group for professional staff working with digitalisation and student mobility.
Erasmus without Paper: the dice are rolling
On 12 and 13 September 2019, the Technical partners’ team and the Steering Committee of the Erasmus without Paper consortium met in Malaga to take stock of what had been done so far and to plan the activities until the end of the present project.
Erasmus Without Paper – Competence Centre
The EWP Competence Centre contains a lot of useful information for anyone interested in EWP, including for Erasmus Mobility Coordinators, for Higher Education leadership and for IT Teams & 3rd party mobility software providers.
Towards a European student eID – recent developments in the MyAcademicID Project
On 20-21 November in Berlin, the MyAcademicID project (MyAID) will present the progress made so far in developing a European Student eID Scheme for Higher Education.
Erasmus Without Paper Launch | EUF
From the 12th to the 13th of December the launch of the Erasmus without Paper (EWP) network will take place at the Ghent University.
“Erasmus goes Digital” webinar attracts record number of Higher Education institutions
Vision for digitalisation in the future Erasmus programme.
MyAcademicID Project Launch
This project focused on creating the foundation for a secure, federated authentication and identification system for mobile students, paving the way for the European Student Identifier (ESI).