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European Student Card Initiative

Policy overview

Presentation to the MyAcademicID Conference

Berlin, November 20-21, 2019

Harpa Sif ArnarsdottirDG Education, Youth, Sport and CultureHigher Education Unit

The European Education Area by 2025

• High-quality education, irrespective of socio-economic background

• No barriers to learning and training abroad• Automatic mutual recognition• Speaking two languages, in addition to one’s mother

tongue, is the norm• Strong sense of a European student identity

How can we get there?

Erasmus 2021-2027

Potential tripling of the budget to:• Foster the European Education Area• Support higher volume of mobilities• Develop European Universities • Achieve more inclusion and bigger impact

The European Student Card Initiative plays a key role in achieving our

objectives

European Student Card Initiative

Digitalising and standardising student mobility administration

processes

Rolling out the “European Student Card” and enabling online authentication of

students’ identity across Europe

• Important technical component for the European Student Card Initiative

• Specifying a new standard for unique European Student Identifier (ESI) numbers

• Enabling students to securely identify and authenticate themselves online

• Enabling universities to trust student data sent online • Linked to EU-wide eIDAS citizen online authentication

service• In future, could enable students to complete the enrolment

process before arriving in host university, and sign up for campus services

Why?

• Simplify and streamline processes• Provide a complete overview of the mobility cycle • Enable easier and faster access to student services• Enhance GDPR compliance• Enable higher education institutions to cope with

higher levels of mobility • Free up time for staff to focus on quality, inclusion

and impact of international cooperation

Political mandate to build the European Education Area

• November 2017 Gothenburg Social Summit • December 2017 Council conclusions• November 2019 Council resolution

“Nine in ten young Europeans think that the services offered by a European Student Card

would be useful”

Eurobarometer (2018)

Communications

• Building a stronger Europe: the role of youth, education and culture policies • Digital Education Action plan

The European Student Card Initiative will remain a top priority for the new Commission, European Parliament and the next Erasmus

programme

Use of the data transfer standards will become gradually mandatory in the next Erasmus programme • 2021: Inter-institutional agreements and Online learning

agreements • 2022: Nominations • 2023: Transcripts of records

Timescale depends on systems being fully tested by higher education institutions and confirmed fit for purpose!

By 2025: European Student Card available to all students in EuropeTo achieve this, European Student Card Digital Officers are working with the Commission to assist with communication, training and planning.

Timescales

Thank you for your attention!

EAC-HE@ec.europa.eu