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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
