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    EBSI projects
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<h2>Educational Identification in Europe</h2>

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<h3>Helping higher education alliances align on an interoperable system for managing students' identification when
    accessing facilities and services across Europe.</h3>

<p class="reference">The vision</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Led by a consortium of 2+ universities and 4+ IT providers from Spain, Romania and
    Ireland.</h2>
<p class="txt">Together, they are shaping the simplicity and reliability of Educational IDs throughout Europe by
    creating a presentation and verification system for eIDAS and eduGAIN to achieve cross-border university education
    mobility by establishing a stable student identification architecture.</p>

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    <p class="txt">Universities</p>
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    <p class="txt">IT Providers</p>
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    <p class="modal-reference">Educational Identification in Europe</p>
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            <p class="txt">Participating countries:</p>
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            <p class="txt">Universities: <span>(Issuers of educational credentials)</span></p>
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            <p class="txt">Infrastructure:</p>
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<p class="reference">The challenge</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Proving students' identity across universities in Europe is challenging.</h2>
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    Students are increasingly looking to personalise their learning paths to build a diverse academic profile. However,
    moving between universities currently involves dealing with time-consuming administrative and verification hurdles
    to exchange information that accurately identifies students. Students often have to carry physical (paper) copies of
    their identity and student identity or use a private-sector third-party intermediary to authenticate their
    identities and student status. This means current options are centralised, costly, time-consuming, and prone to
    errors. 
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<p class="reference">The opportunity</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Web3 has the potential to revolutionise education identification.</h2>
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    The aim is to create an architecture for general student identification using Educational IDs that other systems can
    use for more specific use cases in the educational sector, with the end goal of helping students manage their own
    student identification. See their collaboration with the University Alliance project to view how their architecture
    was adopted by another system.
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<p>
    A Web3 presentation and verification infrastructure for student identification credentials brings together three main technologies:
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    <li>Digital Wallets: used by students and universities to receive, store, and send credentials on the move.</li>
    <li>Verifiable Credentials: for formatting, presenting, and exchanging credential data in a machine-friendly way.
    </li>
    <li>Blockchain: for delivering a highly secure, resilient, and decentralised way of verifying credential information.
    </li>
</ul>

<p class="reference">The project</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Building the foundations of a new student identification infrastructure using EBSI.
</h2>
<p class="txt">
    The project leverages the power of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) to build the foundations
    of the digital infrastructure needed for a seamless cross-border learning experience. The project unites 2
    universities and 4 IT providers from Spain, Romania and Ireland to achieve this.
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    EBSI allows this project to design, build, and operate the next generation of decentralised services.
    The objective of this project is to enhance the student experience by allowing them to:
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    <li>Have their student status recognised and authenticated, enabling them to obtain a personally unique yet
        privacy-preserving Educational ID.</li>
    <li>Seamlessly present their Educational ID credentials for verification with third parties (i.e., other universities).</li>
    <li>Enable secure data sharing, selective disclosure, and control over personal student information across nations and institutions.</li>
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<p class="reference">The scenario</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Discover​ the scenarios.</h2>

<h3 class="modal-title">1. Issuance, storage and presentation of an Educational ID.</h3>
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        <p>Monica is a student at the University of Extremadura (ES).</p>
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            <li>Monica digitally authenticates her identity once through a university identification verification portal
                and <span>1</span> <strong>requests</strong> the issuance of an Educational ID credential that states
                her student identity, as well
                as any other student properties issued on the credential by the university (e.g., age, duration,
                programme, courses, etc.).</li>
            <li>The University <span>2</span> <strong>issues</strong> the credential to Monica and she <span>3</span> <strong>stores</strong> it in
                her personal digital wallet.</li>
            <li>Monica then applies to an Erasmus programme at the Western University of Arad (RO). She <span>4</span> <strong>presents</strong> her
                Educational ID credential to prove her student identity in the application process. The university is
                able to <span>5</span> <strong>verify</strong> her identity against the EBSI ledger and confirm her student status in her application
                process.</li>
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<h3 class="modal-title">2. Utility of an Educational ID for accessing services.</h3>
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        <p>Once accepted into the university, she travels to Romania.</p>
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            <li>Once she arrives Romania, to gain access to the Erasmus University library, Monica scans the entry QR
                code using her digital wallet. She is able to use her wallet to <span>6</span> <strong>present</strong>
                only the specific information
                from her Educational ID credential that is required to gain access to the library and other services
                provided by the university (an example of selective disclosure).</li>
            <li>The system is able to automatically <span>7</span> <strong>verify</strong> her status as a student on Erasmus via her Educational ID
                credentials, swiftly allowing Monica to <span>8</span> <strong>gain</strong> access and use the facilities of the library.</li>
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<p class="reference">The project plan</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Current implementation stage and plan.</h2>

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<p class="reference">Next steps</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Mobilisation of the ecosystem is key to driving adoption.</h2>
<p class="txt">Achieving this unified student experience demands a strategic and operational paradigm shift, mobilising a vast ecosystem involving universities, legal entities, ministries, and students. The creation of a cohesive digital infrastructure for this Educational ID project necessitates common guidelines, including an improved identification system and verification architecture for seamless, secure, and cross-sectorial inter-university student identification.</p>

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