EMREX Newsletter #6

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Wrapping up and releasing EMREX to the World

EMREX stopped logging student activity in the tool September 30st. Now the network is more than ready to roll-on, and new partners are getting ready to join. EMREX is the solution for electronic transfer of achievement records between higher education institutions in Europe – and beyond!

Institutions successfully connected to EMREX so far is the following (by country)

Norway: all institutions

Finland: all institutions

Denmark: Technical University of Denmark, University of Copenhagen

Italy: University of Verona

Poland: University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, University of Opole, University of Bialystok

Sweden: all institutions

EMREX User Group to continue the Network

The three-year EMREX-project is coming to an end this year. However, the EMREX network will continue and all partners are committed to continuing in production and new partners like the Netherlands are joining. It has now been agreed that after the project the network will be organized around an EMREX User Group, which will among other things decide on adding new partners to the network, agree on new functionality and overall actively support and market the EMREX network. This is an important milestone as not all EU projects manage the transition from project-funding to service-as-usual. This, of course, does not exclude the possibility to apply for EU funding for specific tasks in the future. The partners did apply for an EMREX+ project, which wasn’t successful and there are some ideas for further funding and other cooperation that will be clarified during the autumn and early next year. In between, the EMREX User Group will be the glue that links current and future EMREX partners together and will guarantee the success of the network.

Evaluation

During trial period the students were also invited to fill in a digital survey regarding students’ opinion on recognition process. You can find more information about the aims of the evaluation and the complete questionnaire at the project website emrex.eu, Evaluation. All data from logs together with information from the survey will be summarized, analyzed and presented during fall.

EMREX Unleashed!

Seminar November 30, 2017 in Bologna, Italy. Come and hear about the future of student mobility and free flowing student data. Come and see what EMREX can be used for, how it is connected to Erasmus and EU, and how it will be organized in the years to come. You can still sign up here: https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/644FDA943A81B47F.par

Dont miss the opportunity!

Attended and upcoming activities/events, https://zgfreestyle.hr/emrex/#news
EMREX mentioned in new report from the European Commission 27.8

TAICEP 11.9

EAIE 11.9

Nordforum 20-21.9

IAAO, 27-29.9

Work shop with Stiftung fur Hochschulzulassung in Dortmund 3.10

Conference on the Revised Reykjavik Declaration: The Nordic Approach on Recognition in Oslo 12.10

Conference on Digital Documents in Education in Riga 16.11

SCOOP4C and TOOP in Berlin 28.11

Final EMREX seminar, EMREX Unleashed 30.11

Your EMREX Team

Newsletter #5

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Last Chance to be a part of the EMREX Field Trial and have your say about the future direction of EMREX

The Field Trial is ending August 31st and you now have your last chance to include students from your HEI in the testing of the tool. The future development of EMREX will be based on the feedback from the field trial and thus depends on your and your students’ opinions!

Stakeholder Forum and Seminar

The EMREX project arranged its second EMREX Seminar in Helsinki 31 January 2017. At our second open sminar we discussed the project status and how it works. Vice President Toni Tamminen and President Miia Vaara from ESN Finland had much appreciated presentation about the students view of mobility. Furthermore Ylva Sundmark, Graduation Officer from Högskolan Dalarna in Sweden, gave the administrators view. There were also time discussions among the differen countries and partners taking part in this policy project, co-funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the EU. You can find all sliders from the Seminar here The second Stakeholder Forum was held 1.2.2017 in Helsinki  The takeholder gelt EMREX is an important step towards automatic recognition and stressed the importance of continuing spreading EMREX to new EU countries, like Germany, France and Spain, and also to work together with EWP and others to add support for course catalogues, grade conversion etc.

Denmark

The danist NCP is now tested by students and is hopefully in full production soon.

Application

Due to the big interest in both the existing Emrex and its future opportunities in the EMREX-team is applying for further financing from EU. The field trial is officially between Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and Sweden already several other countries have expressed an interest in joining the EMREX network. EMREX is open sourced and flexible to further functionalities which opens up for a range of possibilities of handling data a documents!

Attending and upcomming Events

  • EMREX and Groningen Declaration Network 23.1
  • EMREX (Finland) Seminar 31.1
  • DAAD (Germany) webinar 29.3
  • EURASHE (France) 30-31-3
  • ESC (Germany) 6-7.4
  • UNICA IRO (Denmark) 26.4
  • GDN (Australia) 27.4
  • EUNIS (Germany) 7-9.6
  • Nordforym 20-21.9
  • Final Emrex Seminar (Italy) November

Your EMREX team    

EMREX and Groningen Declaration Network

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The EMREX Project is mentioned several times in the latest newsletter from the Groningen Declaration Network. We are looking forward to present an update on our project at the next GDN Annual Meeting in Melbourne in April.

See the full newsletter here. EMREX is in the “Making Waves Globally” section.