Workshop with SIGMA – Spain

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On 15-16 February an EMREX workshop was held in Barcelona. SIGMA is one of the main actors in Spain regarding student information systems. The purpose of the workshop was to explore how EMREX can apply to Spanish higher education in general and more specific how EMREX can be integrated with Sigma’s information systems.

The workshop came up with technical sketches on how to add both EMREX clients and NCP to Sigma’s systems, and how to move forward with this to include the universities in the process.

More information – see news from Sigma

EMREX Seminar 2017

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EMREX is supporting student mobility, and it is already here – come and see how it works!

 

 

 

The EMREX project arranged its second EMREX Seminar in Helsinky 31 January 2017.

 

List of participants

 

Why and how to participate

 

EMREX is the solution for electronic transfer of achievements records between higher education institutions in Europe. The Field Trial is now rolling on, and exchange students are digitally transferring their achievement recorts between institutions in Norway, Sweden Finland and Italy – with Denmark soon to come. What is the actial status? Does it work? what do the students think about EMREX? If you’re not already on board – how do you join?

 

At our second open seminar we will try to answer all these questions, but also have time for discussions among the different countries and partners taking part in this policy project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

 

 

Agenda

 

9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30

Welcome, agenda and opening session

Herik Wolff, rector, Arcada University of Applied Sciences

Birgitta Vuorinen, Finnish Ministery of Education and Culture
9.45

EMREX and Field trial status (slides)

  • What is EMREX – Mats Lindstedt
  • Demo
  • Field trial and lessons do far – Tor Fridell / Pamela Engström
  • Latest news per country
11.00

Student’s view on mobility – Toni Tamminen, Vice President and Miiaa Vaara, President, ESN Finland (slides)

HEI administrator’s view – Ylva Sundmark, Graduation Officer, Högskolan Dalarna, Sweden (slides)
12.00 Lunch
13.00

Country specific workshops

  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Italy, Poland and Others
14.00 Coffee Break
14.15 Wrap-up of workshops
14.30

Student mobility initiative updates

  • Erasmus Without Papers – Carmen Diaz, Sigma, Spain (slides)
  • DUO in the Netherlands – Jan Otten (slides, diploma)
  • FAIR – Katrien Bardoel, EP Nuffic, Netherlands (slides)
15.15 Case study: Admission in Norway – Geir Vangen (slides)
15.45 EMREX 2.0 – first thoughts – Mats Lindstedt (see first slide set above)
16.00-16.30

Summing up (Mats Lindstedt)

Questions, comments

Information about the Stakeholder meeting day 2 (Anders Bøgebjerg Hansen)

 

 

Logistics

 

The event will be held at Arcada University of Applied Science

https://www.arcada.fi/en/contact-information/find-your-way-arcada

Address: Jan-Magnus Janssonin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki

map-seminar

The main entrance is situated on the east side of the Arcada building, in the intersection of Tuokolankatu and Toukaloankuja, next to Jan-Magnus Janssonin aukio. Tram 6 (Arabia – Hietalahti) or 8 (Arabia – Saknusaari) provides an easy and comfortable ride to and from downtown Helsinki in about 20 minutes. The stop nearest Arcada is Kyläsaarenkatu. A suggestion is to take tram 6 from outside the main railway station to Arcada.

 

The seminar is free of charge, but participants are expected to cover their own travelling and accomodation expenses.

 

Hotels

There are plenty of hotels in downtown Helsinki, which is the suggested location to stay.

A quota has been agreed with Scandic Simonkenttä and Radission Blue, both includes breakfast and WiFi.

Scandic Simonkenttä
Address: Simonkatu 9, 00100 Helsinki
Phone no.: 00358 9 68380 Email: simonkentta@scandichotels.com

Days 30.1-2.2.2017
Room type Standard
Price €154 single room / night
€174 twin / double room / night
Booking terms
All Guests reserve their rooms themselves by contacting the hotel directly via telephone or email. All reservations should be made using the reservation code CSC300117 before 16.1.2017

Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Tuneberginkatu 2, 00100 Helsinki, 02012347
EUR 151 / 1hh standard
EUR 166 / 2hh standard

Reservation code: EMREX2017, valid subject to availability until 1.1.2017

Other possible hotels;

  • Scandic Marski
  • Scandic Plaza
  • Radisson Blu Plaza

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.

Words of support from the European Commission

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Please find your time to read this endorsement letter we have received from our sponsor.

Newsletter #4

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The fourth and last EMREX Newsletter for this year is out!

Getting in touch with students

The first year of the EMREX field trial is soon ending with marvelous results. Students in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Italy have succesfully transferred their transcript of records between home and host institution with positive feedback. This creates a promising basis for future testing as our current focus is to identify and get in contact with students coming back from their abroad studies at the turn of the year 2016. the field trial is for students who have been studying in any of the pilot countries, Norway, Finland, Sweden or two universities in Italy, the unversitie of Sienna and the university of Verona or four universities in Denmark, university of Copenhagen, Roskilde University, Aalborg University and Technical University of Denmark. The project welcomes all help available to find those students! Due to limitation of acces times to their studens’ account after finished studies, most of them need to log in as soon as possible after they got their credits registered. The field trial will keep rolling throughout the spring of 2017 and the next big search for students wil thus occur during the end of next semester in spring/summer 2017.

 

Seminar in Helsinki in January

To provide an opportunity for participants and stakeholders to keep up to date a seminar and stakeholder forum will be organized in Helsinki . Finland on 31.1-1.2.2017 if you are interested in joining the seminar all information can be found at the project website EMREX seminar 2017.

 

EMREX Poland ready for deployment

The newest official version of student information systems USOS developed by Polish partner (University of Warsaw) fir the consortium of more than 50 Polish Higher Education Institutions (MUCI) contains the EMREX module which offers functionality of both SMP and NCP. The decision to join EMREX network will be op to the local authorities. A special workshop for Polish HEIs, members of MUCI, is planned to take place in Warsaw in the early January 2017. The main topic will be the new admission system, used for recruitment of prospective students for diploma studies, short-term studies, and internal mobility (part of MOST program. Read more about the Polish solution in the EMREX portal: Case Study: Poland

 

EMREX is of interest!

The EMREX solution has attracted a lot of interest among various stakholders in Europe and betond, and the project is continuously working on expanding collaborations. Technical co-operation is ongoing with DUO in the Netherlands and VTAC in Australia to join the EMREX network. SIGMA in Spain has also declared their interest in becoming an EMREX partner in addition to ongoing talks with several others. Emrex is also working closely with DG EAC in Brussels to find synergies with oher EU-sposored project (e.g. Erasmus Without Papers and FAIR) and upcoming new initiatives.

 

Ongoing work with evaluation

Later during spring 2017 there will also be an interview tour conducted in all project countries, run by evaluating partner University of Warsaw. Administrative staff working with credit transferring and exchange students will be asked about routines and possible future effects of EMREX.

 

EMREX presented two times in Brussels this December

The Emrex project has been presented two times at Euopean meetings in Brussels this month. 1st of December at the annual NARIC meeting and again 14th of December at an Erasmus+ National Agencies event, where the European Commission strongly urged the National Erasmus Agenvies to find Higher Education Institutions to join EMREX.

The European Commission has also issued a support letter for EMREX, where they state the importance of the work being done in our project.

During the fall EMREX also e.g. held a session on mobility at the EAIE conference in Liverpool and discussed further cases at the Nordforum meeting in Oslo EMREX has been, and will continue to be present at many external events, including conferences, seminars and workshops involving a range of stakeholdes from various positions.

 

Your EMREX team

EMREX presented two times in Brussels this December

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The EMREX Project has been presented two times at European meetings in Brussels this month. 1 December at the annual NARIC meeting and again 14 December at an Erasmus+ National Agencies event, where the European Commission strongly urged the National Erasmus Agencies to find Higher Education Institutions to join EMREX.

EMREX in Poland ready for deployment

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The newest official version (6.2.1 issued on 23.11.2016) of student information system USOS developed by Polish partner (University of Warsaw) for the consortium of more than 50 Polish Higher Education Institutions (MUCI) contains the EMREX module which offers functionality of both SMP and NCP. That means that when only the institution deploys that version and the URL of that institution’s NCP is added to the EMREX registry, students of that institution, outgoing and incoming, will be able to transfer their achievements. The decision to join EMREX network will be up to the local authorities. Technical part is ready to use.

The special workshop for Polish HEIs, members of MUCI, is planned to take place in Warsaw in the early January 2017. The main topic will be the new admission system, used for recruitment of prospective students for diploma studies, short-term studies and internal mobility (part of MOST program). The EMREX solution will also be presented and possible benefits of EMREX for the Polish education system will be discussed.

Read more about the Polish solution in the EMREX portal: Case study: Poland.

Workshop with DUO – the Netherlands

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On 3-4 October an EMREX workshop was held in Groningen. The main purpose for the workshop was to demonstrate an EMREX implementation for the Netherlands, where Dutch students would be able to share their results with the EMREX network, and deliver result data from other countries to Dutch universities.

The workshop was successful and a prototype was made demonstrating the data exchange in both directions. DUO will soon decide on how to follow up on this development.

See how EMREX facilitates joint degrees

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The EMREX solution will facilitate the administrative processes around issuing joint, multiple or double degrees. Read more about this here.

Making of the new EMREX-video

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The EMREX solution is made for the students and for the higher education institutions. Since electronic transfer between countries is a new service, we wanted to show the solution to students and test its user-friendliness. The students who participate in our new EMREX-video have not heard about EMREX before, and thought they were invited to an interview about the recognition process. Have a look at the video and find out what they think!