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EU Student eCard

The objective of the EU Student eCard Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) is to facilitate, simplify and improve the quality of mobility of students across Europe. The DSI is grounded on the European Parliament's Resolution of 12 April 2016 which called on the Commission to create a "European Student e-Card" to support the mobility of students offering access to campus services. The Digital Education Action Plan sets out the vision that "by 2025 all students in Erasmus+ mobility should be able to have their national identity and student status recognised automatically across Member States, including access to campus services when arriving abroad.

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EU Student eCard offers students new user-friendly ways to access academic and non-academic services and allows Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to exchange student data in a trusted manner. The aim of the EU Student eCard DSI is thus to enable the automatic recognition everywhere in Europe of the student status and identity based on the Once-Only Principle, across the EU, and to give easy online access to the academic and other e-services while ensuring seamless electronic exchange of academic documents. The take up of such services will also allow HEIs to achieve noteworthy simplification of several administrative procedures for the involved administrative staff.

The Core Service Platform will define and implement the necessary IT architecture and functionalities for a pan-European online student identification and authentication system and for a relevant student data exchange. It will also provide a set of free and open source solutions for student (eIDAS-enabled) identification and authentication and for exchange of academic data based on common academic attributes. Finally, it will provide a portal with all needed, free-of-charge information, guidelines, downloadable software, etc.

Generic Services Projects support student mobility through the development of solutions for online access to eservices for students, and for the electronic transfer of student information among the involved parties (student, sending HEI and hosting HEI).

Under the 2017 and 2018 work programmes, the uptake of eIDAS-enabled eID by HEIs for cross-border student' authentication was supported within the eID DSI. However, in view of achieving the political objectives of the Digital Education Action Plan a fully functional European Student eCard system requires a more centralised approach to scale up the uptake of such services. The EU Student eCard DSI aims at offering online identification and authentication to students and secure solutions for the exchange of relevant data needed by online services.

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