Supporting Student Mobility and Lifelong Learning

This use case’s aim is to test and deploy a data space in Finland, and in another EU country, with the purpose of facilitating the matching of individual skills with learning opportunities and providers in the area of higher education.

The existing learning opportunity data will also be enriched with AI generated ESCO classification provided by data space services. This will improve discoverability of the learning opportunities within the European university alliances. The use case aligns with the goals of the national Digivisio 2030 programme in Finland and will also connect to a repository being implemented as part of that programme.

It will implement connectors to the data space from both of the two student information systems currently in use in Finland, called Peppi and Sisu. This will serve as a demonstration and greatly ease connection to the data space for all Finnish HEIs. In addition to this, a data-consuming data space connector will be implemented. Other European university alliance partners, as well as anyone else seeking to utilise the data, can use this as a model for connecting their systems into the data space and start receiving learning opportunity data.

On the long run, the target is to find an interoperable and standardised solution for European HEIs to exchange data to support international mobility. This links with the use case one of the eight use cases in the European Higher Education Interoperability Framework as defined by the European Digital Education Hub.