Towards implementing the European student eID

MyAcademicID Final Conference - 14-15 December 2020

Online (time zone CET)

The MyAcademicID project partners invite you to join the final conference to discover key results and outcomes of the project co-funded under the Connecting Europe Facility programme. The conference will present how project deliverables support the digital transformation of the Erasmus+ programme and present how higher education institutions can engage in this process.

MyAcademicID designed and deployed a platform to enable electronic identification and authentication for higher education students through a single European student eID scheme. The European Student eID for Higher Education is the result of the integration of eduGAIN, eIDAS and the European Student Identifier. This will pave the way for easy and secure access to electronic services, simplified administrative procedures and faster information exchange.

During the conference the team will present the use-cases that drove the work in MyAcademicID and the current deployment of the MyAcademicID platform.

The project plays a key role in implementing the vision of European Student Card Initiative, to guarantee starting from 2021 the secure and seamless exchange of student information between higher education institutions taking part in the Erasmus programme, and to give Erasmus students access to electronic services through a single sign-on when going abroad.

The conference is primarily targeting members of National Research and Education Networks that manage students’ accounts and ICT and international relation staff members of higher education institutions as well as European Student Card Initiative stakeholders.

Please click here to register to the conference (Deadline: December 4, 2020). 

Draft Programme

14^th of December 2020 - Introduction to MyAcademicID

• 10:00-10:20
  Welcome and introduction
  João Bacelar, Executive Manager, European University Foundation
  Thomas Carlu, Programme Officer, European Commission, DG Connect
  
  
• 10:20-10:45
  MyAcademicID platform for student mobility: the big picture
  Joachim Wyssling, Program Manager, European University Foundation

• 10:45-11:00: Q&A
  
  
• 11:00-11:30: Break
  
  
• 11:30-12:30
  MyAcademicID platform deployment: what matters, where to start, who to contact - GÈANT and Swedish Research Council
  Christos Kanellopoulos Senior Trust & Identity Manager, GÉANT
  Leif Johansson, Head of Infrastructure Services, Swedish Research Council
  
  
• 12:30-13:00: Q&A and conclusion of the day

15^th of December 2020 - Deployment of MyAcademicID

• 10:00-10:10: Introduction to day 2
  
  
• 10:10-10:20: 
  Deployment of MyAcademicID: the case of Croatia
  Miroslav Milinovic, Assistant Director at University Computing Centre
  
  
• 10:20-11:00
  Panel discussion: challenges and opportunities in deploying the European Student Identifier
  Chair: Licia Florio, Senior Trust & Identity Manager, GÉANT
  Panelists: Names TBC
  
  
• 11:00-11:30: Break
  
  
• 11:30-12:00
  Demo of the MyAcademicID implementation
  Christos Kanellopoulos Senior Trust & Identity Manager, GÉANT
  Jeroen Van Lent,  IT Project Officer, European University Foundation
  
  
• 12:00-12:30
  Future plans with
  - European policy context of the European Student Card initiative
    European Commission, DG EAC (tbc)
  - The forthcoming development of MyAcademicID results and outcomes - EUF
    João Bacelar, Executive Manager, European University Foundation

• 12:30-13:00: Q&A and closing remarks

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