eIDAS-enabled Student Mobility

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Issue 2 - Dec. 2018

Introducing ESMO

Synergies in ESMO

Advantages of ESMO, overview

Plenary meeting in Rodhes (Greece)

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It is an objective to generate impact and collaboration around Europe; community of experts, academia and projects funded by the commission, also interested in security, trust and student mobility. ESMO has been working steadily to build a common roadmap and find the collaboration points with other initiatives on the Higher Education Scene: ESMO has been present at the European Student Card final workshop, and has found a way to converge with the EWP project, in order to boost the strengths of both solutions. This has been possible thanks to the active participation and discussion on the joint workshop organized by the EC’s DG-CONNECT and DG-EAC

June 19, 2018; ESMO presented to the academic IT community at EUNIS congress. This time, the objective was about to present the goals and mission of the project and call for participation to everyone who attended and interested in the project. For next appointment at EUNIS, final results will be presented to ensure that ESMO outputs has been adopted by the community.

ESMO & EWP collaboration was the fruits of Joint Workshops with CEF and ERASMUS+ looking for synergies between the ongoing projects in each area. The collaboration was confirmed by both projects in September this year. EWP provides a trust registry between HEI University services and HEI data sources with the possibility that multiple HEI entities can be served by one host. This capability fits well with ESMO in that the ESMO Gateway can be registered in the EWP trust registry to act on behalf of HEI services and data sources, so to enable the retrieval of academic attributes. ESMO additionally provides new capabilities to HEIs registered with EWP in that it can offer front channel student authentication across borders with their national eIDs through connectivity with eIDAS and also query HEI data sources with the authenticated eIDAS identifier. More details can be found in attached collaboration guidelines.

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ESMO is an initiative that was born to support the increasing numbers of students on mobility. ESMO stems from the lessons learnt in STORK 2.0 project academic pilot, and the approval of the eIDAS regulation, opening the doors to the effective and mandatory public services and identities interoperability across borders. Student mobility at this stage, can offer a variety of benefits for every individual student such as developing personal and professional careers in other scenarios, other countries and other cultures, and for the ESMO partners, a key actor in this developing scenario is the trusted, and easy transfer of academic data.

ESMO will be validated in three different countries (Spain, Greece and Norway), this initiative will do so by supporting the use of nationally issued eID for student’s authentication across borders, and promoting its uptake on the existing online services in higher education institutions across Europe. The services will cover the two use case scenarios envisioned in ESMO: Cross border authentication through CEF eID supported credentials, and the transfer of simple academic attributes from academic data sources on the three participating countries. More information can be found on the project site: www.esmo-project.eu/use-cases

Introduction ESMO; by our technical leader words Synergies in ESMO

ESMO aims at reducing the delays and paperwork that student mobility causes. The goal is to deploy an interoperability platform to facilitate the authentication and transfer of data from the university of origin to its destination, for all students or researchers that are travelling across Europe, through promoting the connection of services and data sources by minimising the integration, customisation and maintenance costs for institutions.

● To achive this, ESMO priorities are: Promotion of eIDAS compliance through the adoption of the CEF eID building block.

● Facilitate learning mobility (reducing border documentation constraints and issues related to administrative procedures)

● Raising trust levels in the management of data requirements

● Achieve convergence with EduGAIN and other initiatives in CEF and ERASMUS+ programmes.

● Maximise collaboration with higher education stakeholders

Did you know that ... ? “eIDAS oversees electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the European Union’s internal market. It regulates electronic signatures, electronic transactions, involved bodies, and their embedding processes to provide a safe way for users to conduct business online like electronic funds transfer or transactions with public services”.

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As we have previously said, ESMO can support mobility at an infrastructure level.

ESMO aims at developing a multi-purpose proxy platform, the ESMO Gateway, which is able to provide multiple protocol support and translation of data sets, creating an abstraction layer that can hide all technical and topological complexities. Due to its flexible design, it can be deployed in a wide array of topologies adapted to the needs of the sector or country. During the project, the deployment as a ring of proxies, operated one per participating country, will be achieved. ESMO Gateway has also been designed with modularity and extendibility in mind: new modules can easily be added, enabling adopters to tune its behavior via configuration or by isolated code additions. Scalability

Advantages of ESMO, overview

Last November, our dear partners met at Rhodes in Greece for an internal meeting.

In that plenary session, they were discussing about new decisions and strategies to handle about ESMO advances and tools. Technical development was carefully revised to ensure alignment and avoid effort misuse, with the delivery deadlines in mind, but also the project sustainability and cost-effectiveness of the solution were discussed, in order to start drafting the post-project roadmap.

The session ended successfully thanks to the effort and dedication of the

Plenary Meeting in Rhodes (Greece)

partners involved from the three European countries, with special thanks to our host, the University of the Aegean.

Alberto Crespo from Atos participated in the CEF Knowledge Cafe at ICT 2018 in Vienna on December 6th 2018 (see more details on this event https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=73542557). He took the opportunity to disseminate the project to different EC officials and participants from private and public-sector present in the event, presenting ESMO as a great example of cross-domain collaboration between CEF eID and Higher Education (including collaboration with different Erasmus+ projects) sector and the possibilities that eIDAS building blocks enables in terms of benefits to Higher Education Institutions and to their students studying abroad. At the EC CEF booth, ESMO Newsletters were also

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has been another driver on the design of the ESMO Gateway, as it can easy increase the work capacity of the proxy by hot-plugging new instances of the key microservices.

For more info related you can visit our website: www.esmo-project.eu Last November 5-8, 2018 had place this

big conference about technology and inspirational talks regarding to WEB world.

Multinational companies and big corporations met these days to exhibit advances, inspiring others to grow or collaborate and present new projects.

ESMO did not miss the opportunity to join this incredible conference. For this reason on behalf of ESMO, The Aegean University attended the event in a booth where they were showing the project (UAegean).

We were sharing promotional material of ESMO, such as poster and brochures in order to better explain the

ESMO in Web Summit in Lisbon

functionalities and benefits of our tool.

As well as, some visual material as a presentation of the project and the website.

You can visit the website of WebSummit here: https://websummit.com/ and get more information regarding.

made available to the wide range of visitors to this major event.

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