European Education Connectivity Solution

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EECS Project Work Disseminated at NACCU and ECCA Conferences

2010-06-24

Recently some members of the EECS consortium have attended and presented at international card conferences. Members of the CTRC in Waterford Ireland and OneCard Solutions Waterford have presented at these conferences outlining the updates and progress made by the EECS Project. In April 2010, the CTRC presented at the annual NACCU conference in Phoenix in the USA and in June 2010, a presentation was also given at ECCA’s annual conference in Ireland.

EECS RTD Meeting Dublin, Ireland

2010-01-27

Our next meeting of the EECS RTDs is to take place on February 1^st in Dublin, Ireland. The main goal of this meeting is to allow the RTDs to make an updated presentation on the final technical specification document. The presentations will be based on areas such as the Card Application Management System, the Card Application Interface and the Student Connectivity Solution.

EECS Project Update

2009-12-01

Work is now well underway for Work Package 3 - Technical Requirements Analysis and Scientific Solutions. A requirement of this work package is to develop the EECS Technical Specifications. Currently a draft EECS four core technical specification is being developed among the three RTDs of the Project.

Technical Workshop

2009-10-23

To enable the successful outcome of Work Package 3, a Technical Workshop took place on the 15th and 16th of October at the Radisson Hotel in London. This technical workshop was arranged in order for the RTDs involved in the project to present their technical specifications for the EECS prototype to the SMEs involved in the project. The membership of this workshop was drawn from industrial experts, academics and ECCA.

Standards Expert Workshop a Great Success

2009-09-07

The EECS held a Standards Expert Workshop at the Radisson Hotel London Stansted on August 21st and 22nd 2009 in accordance with work package 2 requirements. The workshop was a huge success bringing together industry experts, academics and ECCA. The aim of this workshop was to advise on establishing a set of standards for the campus card industry.

Standards Expert Workshop

2009-08-21

As part of the project and work package two, a Standards Expert Workshop will take place on the 21st and 22nd of August at the Radisson Hotel in London. This expert workshop was arranged to advise the consortium of the conclusion of the research stage of the project prior to establishing standards.

EECS Project Gains Publicity Internationally

2009-06-17

The FP7 funded European Education Connectivity Solution (EECS) Project has already garnered immense interest internationally. Two major campus card and ID technology publications in the USA have written articles on the EECS Project in recent weeks. On June 11th CR80 news, a US publication on campus cards, published an article on the EECS Project detailing the funding source and information on the project itself. To read the full article, please Click Here.

EECS Project Officially Launched

2009-06-16

The European Education Connectivity Solution (EECS) Project was officially launched at the annual conference of the European Campus Card Association held at the Radisson Hotel London Stansted on June 8th 2009.

All consortium partners met and held a kick off meeting to plan out the next few months work for work package 2 & 3. The EECS website was also launched.

EECS Project Receives Final Approval From the EU

2009-05-29

The EECS Project has received final approval from the EU under the FP7-SME-2008-1 call. The project will now commence on June 1st 2009. Currently all consortium members are actively involved in the preplanning stage for the start of the project.

The European Education Connectivity Solution (EECS) project will be researched and developed by a consortium which consists of three European SMEs and three Academic Research Centres. The main aim of the project is to develop a prototype campus card management system that will serve the unique needs and requirements of European Higher Education Institutions. This prototype system will provide a secure, standardised campus card system that will overcome the current barriers to expansion of the campus card market and support academic mobility within Europe.

The creation of a standardised campus card system will facilitate secure access to a range of campus services. It will also provide academic mobility by allowing Higher Education institutions to share information using a common identification card that will act as a student’s “electronic key” and will enable access to a student’s records on secure databases.

A standardised campus card will enable more efficient electronic exchange of data amongst H.E. Institutions with the technology of the new millennium. In Europe many Higher Education institutions operate campus card systems in order to facilitate access to services for students, academics and visitors: point of sale, library access, access to classrooms/residences, printing/photocopying, etc. However, these systems operate in isolation on a stand-alone basis, providing no interoperability with other H.E. Institutions card systems due to the lack of system standards.

The main aim of the EECS project is to provide standards, mobility and interoperability throughout the European campuses. The overall project, which will involve several phases of development, will be delivered through a partnership of H.E. Institutions and Campus Card Vendors across Europe.