EECS

European Education Connectivity Solution

Coordinatore	Onecard Total Solutions Limited    more  Organization address address: "IDA BUSINESS PARK, PADDY BROWNES ROAD 105/106" city: WATERFORD contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kate Cognome: Kelly Email: send email Telefono: +353 87 2265282 Fax: +353 51 302604
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Onecard Total Solutions Limited  Organization address address: "IDA BUSINESS PARK, PADDY BROWNES ROAD 105/106" city: WATERFORD contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kate Cognome: Kelly Email: send email Telefono: +353 87 2265282 Fax: +353 51 302604	IE (WATERFORD)	coordinator	419˙984.50
2	Mecenat AB  Organization address address: Kungstorget 7 city: Gothenburg postcode: SE-40425 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Mats Cognome: Fredrikson Email: send email Telefono: +46 31 701 30 63 Fax: +46 31 701 30 69	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 city: WATERFORD contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Sinead Cognome: Nealon Email: send email Telefono: +353 51 302870	IE (WATERFORD)	participant	4˙800.00
5	UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING  Organization address address: Unska 3 city: ZAGREB postcode: 10000 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Vedran Cognome: Mornar Email: send email Telefono: +385 1 6129 642 Fax: +385 1 617 0007	HR (ZAGREB)	participant	2˙400.00
6	POLITECHNIKA LODZKA  Organization address address: ULICA ZEROMSKIEGO 116 city: LODZ postcode: 90 924 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Michal Cognome: Strzelecki Email: send email Telefono: 48426312631 Fax: 48426362238	PL (LODZ)	participant	1˙600.00
7	WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Organization address address: CORK ROAD city: WATERFORD postcode: - contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Eugene Cognome: Mckenna Email: send email Telefono: +353 51 302072 Fax: +353 51 302743	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.