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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
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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
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How can we get there?
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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
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The European Student Card Initiative plays a key role in achieving our
objectives
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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
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• 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
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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
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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
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The European Student Card Initiative will remain a top priority for the new Commission, European Parliament and the next Erasmus
programme
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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