EECS
European Education Connectivity Solution
| Coordinatore | Onecard Total Solutions Limited
Organization address
address: "IDA BUSINESS PARK, PADDY BROWNES ROAD 105/106" contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Ireland [IE] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.eecscard.eu |
| Totale costo | 1˙483˙402 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙001˙087 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2008-1 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-06-01 - 2011-05-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Onecard Total Solutions Limited
Organization address
address: "IDA BUSINESS PARK, PADDY BROWNES ROAD 105/106" contact info |
IE (WATERFORD) | coordinator | 419˙984.50 |
| 2 |
Mecenat AB
Organization address
address: Kungstorget 7 contact info |
SE (Gothenburg) | participant | 300˙016.00 |
| 3 | OPTEAM SA | PL | participant | 272˙287.00 |
| 4 |
WIT DIVERSE CAMPUS SERVICES LBG
Organization address
address: CORK ROAD THE COURTYARD BUILDING WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY contact info |
IE (WATERFORD) | participant | 4˙800.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING
Organization address
address: Unska 3 contact info |
HR (ZAGREB) | participant | 2˙400.00 |
| 6 |
POLITECHNIKA LODZKA
Organization address
address: ULICA ZEROMSKIEGO 116 contact info |
PL (LODZ) | participant | 1˙600.00 |
| 7 |
WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Organization address
address: CORK ROAD contact info |
IE (WATERFORD) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The EECS project brings together three European SMEs and three academic researchers in order to develop a prototype campus card management system that will serve the unique needs and requirements of European Higher Education Institutions. EECS will recommend standards for campus card systems to the ISO and will build the prototype to the recommended standards in order to facilitate interoperability between campus card management systems across Europe. The EECS project will give the participating SMEs access to trans-European research and development, which will deliver an interoperable card management system. The consortium will work with the European Campus Card Association (ECCA) to develop the most appropriate solution for European campuses, based on the unique needs of Higher Education institutions. The EECS project will produce an integrated campus card solution, which will be exploited by the partner SMEs. This is a highly ambitious goal achievable through state of the art research and the careful partnering of Research and Technological Development (RTD) performers and SME partners. Typically, access to such research capability is confined to the multinational organizations. The EECS goals are, therefore, ideally suited to the Research for SMEs program. The core technological ambitions of the project are to: - Facilitate the interoperability of campus systems and basic functionalities, including the transfer of student information and access to a range of fundamental campus services for students. - Develop an information transmission interface that will translate information stored on one campus card into a common format based on European standards. - Facilitate the secure authentication of information transfer between educational institutions. The project aims to fulfill the main objectives of the Bologna Declaration by promoting mobility by overcoming obstacles to the effective exercise of free movement of students and academics.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Campus card systems used in higher education institutions across Europe suffer from inadequate standards and compatibility issues, hampering the mobility of students and academics. An EU-funded initiative addressed the shortcomings of such an isolated, stand-alone academic information system.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
The 'European education connectivity solution' http://www.eecscard.eu/ ((EECS)) project developed a new interconnected and interoperable campus card management system. The EU-funded consortium brought together three small and medium-sized enterprises, and three research and technological development institutions from four EU countries.
An integrated, standard-based EECS Campus Card prototype was designed. The project team developed a secure and standardised campus card management system to serve the unique needs and requirements of European higher education institutions. The EECS prototype's architecture and technical design successfully overcame problems related to standards and interoperability, opening up development of the campus card market. Additionally, project deliverables have highlighted the potential offered by interoperable campus card systems for facilitating academic mobility.
Although the EECS Campus Card prototype is still in need of further development and real-life demonstration, EECS efforts and activities have delivered positive results, attracting the interest of suppliers and companies. The potential for commercialisation of a marketable product thus exists. In general, all project-related developments translate to significant benefits for a wide range of stakeholders in future.