In a jointly drafted manifesto, the workgroup outlines its intentions and the guiding principles behind its work.
It aims to
prioritise European public values create a trusted environment for data and information exchange focus on information security and reliability The key principles that will guide the workgroup include: sustainability, quality assurance, social inclusion, alignment with established standards and practices, risk mitigation, and data protection.
By integrating existing technological standards and EU policies, the interoperability framework will aim to cultivate an open, adaptable ecosystem.
This document is one of the deliverables of the EOSC-A Task Force on “Technical Interoperability of Data and Services”. Its main aim is to collect the most up-to-date information regarding the EOSC Interoperability Framework, its main capabilities and implementation status.
This report provides the result of a research study conducted within the context of the Public Sector Tech Watch, an observatory developed by DG DIGIT, with the support of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), that provides a knowledge hub and a virtual space where public administrations, civil society, GovTech companies and researchers can find and share knowledge and experience. The report’s primary goal is to offer an analysis of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are improving interoperability in the European Public Sector.
Signed by the responsible ministers of all EU Member States, following up on the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment, which endorsed the key principles for digital public services put forward in the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020.
Joint statement of all the 41 Alliances
Student mobility is an essential topic to strengthen a fruitful discussion in engineering education. However, required administrative exchange documents such as transcripts of records, bachelor’s degrees, diplomas, and certificates are analog and there is no fraud-protection. Thus, verifiable credentials enable sharing for higher education institutions (HEI) because they are fully automated and fraud-proof. To explain and create a common base, we are examining the current work and standards. We apply a four-step approach: (1) code the descriptions of the standards, (2) identify the standards in different layers, (3) identify interplays, and (4) develop a coupling concept. We extend the knowledge base with a coupling concept illustrating the interplay of global, European, and German standards in HEI. Practitioners can apply the concept to develop an interoperable ecosystem to exchange verifiable credentials. This also builds a fundamental basis to enable the exchange of more detailed credentials such as micro-credentials on a global level.
Important policy document, includes interoperability in several places, including ".. high-performing digital infrastructures and services, which should to the greatest possible extent be interoperable and shared across Europe".
eIDAS2 Large Scale Pilot (20 MS + NO + UA) working on Educational credentials, professional qualifications, titles and licenses. Goal => Deploy LSP to test eIDAS Arquitecture Reference Framework and the European Digital Identity Wallet, provide feedback and improve ARF & EUDIW, and make a TrustModel proposal for Education under eIDAS review (eIDAS2)
La transformation numérique des attestations émises par les universités au service de la compétitivité européenne Ce livre blanc s’adresse aux personnes souhaitant comprendre les enjeux et les opportunités liés à la transformation numérique des diplômes, des attestations académiques, de titres de compétences et de reconnaissance ouverte (open badges, micro-certifications). Conçu comme une introduction accessible, il offre une vision globale du sujet, en explorant ses différentes dimensions : pratique, légale, informatique et organisationnelle. À une époque où la transition informatique est bousculée par l’intelligence artificielle générative, ce livre blanc explique comment instaurer la confiance des citoyens dans l’authenticité des attestations émises et dans leur circulation dans des infrastructures numériques européennes et souveraines, tout en le mettant au centre de la gestion de ses données. Avec plus de 80.000 attestations numériques de réussite au diplôme depuis 2021 consultées plus de 250.000 fois dans 160 pays, ce livre blanc permet à l’Université de Lille de répondre à de nombreuses sollicitations, au service de la mobilité professionnelle et de l’évolution des compétences, à l’échelle régionale, nationale, européenne et internationale. Il contribue aux travaux de la mesure 3 du COREALE (Comité pour la Réussite Étudiante et l’Agilité des Établissements) de la Direction Générale de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de l’Insertion Professionnelle “Clarifier les modalités réglementaires et expérimenter les solutions techniques de la mise en place d'un diplôme numérique national/européen”. Il répond aux questions liées à l’application de réglementations différentes selon les pays, d’évolutions de certaines mentions ou formats, d’adoption de standards informatiques internationaux comprenant l’intégration de technologies innovantes, de gestion des données personnelles et professionnelles. Cette expérience est aussi un démonstrateur pour d’autres types d’attestations officielles qui pourront être trouvées au sein des portefeuilles (EUDI Wallets) avec l’entrée en vigueur de la réglementation européenne eIDAS v2. Le développement d’une identité numérique et de services de confiance reconnus dans l’ensemble des Etats membres est l’une des priorités de l’Union européenne. L’objectif est de permettre, d’ici 2030, à tous les citoyens européens d’en disposer. Ce guide propose une approche pour comprendre les outils et standards qui soutiennent la numérisation de l’identité et des certificats académiques et de compétences, en France et en Europe ; identifier les acteurs impliqués et leurs rôles dans cette démarche de transformation ; mieux appréhender les défis, enjeux et opportunités liés à ce sujet stratégique. Enfin, il est conçu pour accompagner les préconisations de la Commission européenne avec la “boussole pour regagner en compétitivité et garantir une prospérité durable”, en lien avec l’Open Science et l’Open Education, le socle européen des droits sociaux, pour enrichir et moderniser l’offre de formation afin de garantir une bonne adéquation entre les compétences et les demandes du marché du travail, visant à bâtir une union des compétences axée sur l'investissement, l'éducation des adultes et l'apprentissage tout au long de la vie, la création de compétences à l'épreuve du temps, le maintien des compétences, la mobilité équitable, l'attraction et l'intégration de talents qualifiés extérieurs à l'UE et la reconnaissance des différents types de formation pour permettre aux personnes de travailler dans toute l'Union.
Landing page to understand the technologies that make it possible for Public Administrations and Businesses to easily verify and trust information received directly from Citizens (or Businesses). EBSI Verifiable Credentials Playbook provides all information for integrating and becoming compatible with all systems utilising identity based on the EBSI framework. Building upon the W3C Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs), W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs), W3C Verifiable Presentations (VPs), OpenID for Verifiable Credentials, GDPR, eIDAS, and other EU Regulations, EBSI is creating a generic profile for the full life-cycle of self-sovereign identity (SSI).
Looking at current efforts and strategies for implementing the Once-Only-Principle OOP/OOTS versus former Cross-Border CroB Principles in EU E-Government regulation/projects like SDG/TOOP/mGov4EU, we analyze these developments concerning the HEI/EDU integration, also looking at the different states and (central/de- central) structures in some EU Member States as well cross-border, where already digital services and standards are used, like EMREX/ELMO and EWP. Against this background, we make proposals for some improvements for interoperability for OOTS and CroB implementations for HEI/EDU with standards and security.
This publication on interoperability looks at the issue from the institutional perspective. It considers how (and if) the practical efforts to realise interoperable systems are (to be) embedded in a bigger picture of European higher education, and what these efforts – if they continue to gather momentum – might lead to in the longer term.
EdMatrix is a cooperative effort to create a directory of Learning Data Standards. The primary dimensions by which the standards are categorized are A Taxonomy of Learning Data Standards (vertical) and A Four-Layer Framework for Data Standards (horizontal)
Study from the Commission.
Online article about the alliance Aurora's first micro-credential awarded.
The educational domain is working hard on innovation. Strategic agendas have been drawn up for this purpose, for example for Lifelong Development, Flexibilization and the Continuous Learning Line. This requires cooperation in many areas that also places demands on the provision of information. Agreements on architecture and standards are essential to achieve these goals. In recent years, bodies have been set up to make administrative agreements and to collaborate in the field of architecture and standards. In primary education, for example, standards have been coordinated with the business community and in higher education and secondary vocational education there is an architect network that has set up a sector architecture.
The Higher Education Reference Models (HERM) provide standardised business, application and data architectures that communicate a generalised view of how higher education institutions are organised and the information they use. The HERM is now being used in more than a thousand universities around the world.
The Ministry of National Education publishes the "technical doctrine of digital technology for education" in order to establish a framework of architecture and common rules, aimed at providing users with a readable and structured set of educational digital services that are simply accessible and interoperable. The July 2024 version is the version in force from July 2024.
Several European Universities alliances and innovators have joined forces, to work across borders and bring higher education and innovation closer together. European Universities were encouraged, on a voluntary basis, to cooperate with each other, as well as with start-ups and private sector innovators, including those associated to their alliances as well as members of the Coalition of the Willing.
Information from the Commission about the selected projects which will work on the joint European Degree label or the possible legal status of European Universities.
Position from the alliance 4EU+. It includes standardisation, common understanding and design & issuance.
The Study “Making Interoperability Work – Challenges and Solutions for an Interoperable Higher Education System”, has been carried out by Technopolis in close cooperation with Hochschulforum Digitalisierung between November 2022 and July 2023.
It calls for more guidance and orientation from policy makers and mandated stakeholder organisations to reduce systemic uncertainty, generate (technical) directionality, and actively shape a trajectory towards an interoperable European university system. This is key to leverage the “power of public money” to reach interoperability in higher education.
Its short, medium and long term recommendations for those who are on the road towards interoperability show how interoperability can be achieved if the European Commission, Member States, alliances, universities and the private sector work together
Report providing "an analysis on the intermediate progress in the period of 2021 – 2022 of the 17 European University Alliances projects funded under the Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society IBA-SwafS-Support-1-2020 call - Support for the Research and Innovation Dimension of European Universities"
The Values Guide for digitalisation in education offers a common language for the dialogue on digitalisation in which public values are paramount. By talking about this with each other, Dutch education can make better decisions about new technological developments and further digitalisation. The Values Guide was developed by SURF and Kennisnet.
The architectural translation into architecture you can find in the ROSA chain reference architecture: https://rosa.wikixl.nl/index.php/Drivers_en_doelen
European Parliament study of the firts years of the European University Alliances.
The Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation provides a unique bridge between EU policies and ICT standardisation activities.The Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation is drafted by the European Commission in collaboration with the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) on ICT Standardisation and is updated annually. It lists all the topics identified as EU policy priorities where standardisation, standards, or ICT technical specifications may play a key role in the implementation of the policy. It covers technologies of 'horizontal importance', ones whose application have a wide impact across different technical fields, in the context of ICT infrastructures and ICT standardisation.
The European Blockchain services infrastructure, led by business actors (Member States), provides the set of business needs that allows the technical manager (DG-DIGIT) to develop a set of services that cover education needs. Worked by the MS, it allows the educational governance of all MS to be deployed, supports all types of education (formal, non-formal, informal) and educational quality regimes Every year more institutions find added value. In this series you can see, told by the institutions themselves, some of the user journeys of the so-called Wave2 Currently, in Wave 3, more than 40 universities and 7 university alliances are solving their own scenarios, internal alliance scenarios and even corss-alliances scenarios. With credentials of both achievements/educational activities, as well as identity or academic membership.
Project to implement the Single Digital Gateway Resolution. It aims at promoting citizen mobility in the EU for 21 Public procedures. 3 procedures mandatory for HEIs since December'23.
Part of the MicroHE project. Looks into the topic of accreditation for online learning or Massive Open Online Coursework.
Briefing from the European University Association
European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) has guiding principles to proceed towards a "European Micro-Credentials Initiative".