1. Rome Student Systems and Standards Group
Workshop Introduction
Simone Ravaioli, Kion
We want to make things easier !
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2. RS3G (Rome Student Systems and Standards Group) is an established group of software implementers and stakeholders in the European Higher Education domain which is focused on contributing to the definition and adoption of standards and procedures for the exchange of data to facilitate student mobility and lifelong learning.
We want to make things easier !
Help in communicating better

3. RS3G (Rome Student Systems and Standards Group) is an established group of software implementers and stakeholders in the European Higher Education domain which is focused on contributing to the definition and adoption of standards and procedures for the exchange of data to facilitate student mobility and lifelong learning.

4. .. It’s a long way to Santiago… right David, Jim, Frans, Nicola
Stuttgart
Rome
Santiago
@ EUNIS 2009
.. It’s a long way to Santiago… right David, Jim, Frans, Nicola
Nevertheless RS3G decided to take “the road less travelled”: Rome, Dublin, Stuttgart…
The RS3G way !

5. “all roads lead start from Rome”
European workshop, 9th November 2007 in Rome
Defining standards and procedures for the exchange of student curriculum data between Higher Education Institutions
40 participants from 13 countries
Rome Student Systems and Standards Group (R3SG)
Recommendations
Permanent Observatory
Delegation of Experts to CEN
Promote technical subgroups
"Standards come through adoption”
D. Moldoff, Academy One (Rome workshop, Nov.9th 2007)
Thank you, David!

6. Standardization authorities i.e. CEN
Dublin Worshop
Sharing Perspectives for the Rapid Development of Standards for Course Description and Curriculum Data
2 “standard” perspectives:
Implementers i.e. R3SG
Standardization authorities i.e. CEN

7. Building momentum European workshop, 25th April 2008 in Dublin
Sharing Perspectives for the Rapid Development of Standards for Course Description and Curriculum Data
37 participants from 11 countries
2 “standard” perspectives – implementers vs. standardization authorities
Business Cases: the need for standardization
Focus Areas
Graduation Documents (Diploma Supplement)
European Learner Mobility (EUROPASS)
Course Unit Description
Course equivalencies

8. The opportunities for standards
Course Description
Academic Offer Validation
Course Advertising
Mediated Application
Course Unit
Curriculum Description
Exchange Mobility
Transfer Mobility
Graduation Documents
Employment
Student Observatory
STUDY PROGRAMMES & COURSE UNITS CATALOGUE
LEARNING AGREEMENT
TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDS
STUDY PROGRAMME DETAILS
DIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT
COURSE UNIT DETAILS
CURRICULUM VITAE

9. Academic Offer Validation
Course Advertising
Mediated Application
Course
Unit
Exchange Mobility
Transfer Mobility
Graduation Documents
Employment
Business Cases Flow
Student Observatory

10. Growing Pains European workshop, December 11th 2008 in Stuttgart
Moving Bologna Data Exchanges forward
36 participants from 12 countries
“Growing pains” - from group to organization
Visibility and Proliferation of workshop results
CEN contribution: MLO and ELM
Euro AFI project (University of Stuttgart)
Liason with Terena, EUNIS, CEN, NEC (National Europass Centers), EAIE

11. 601742 participants countries organizations
Anyone wants to guess what it this number here ?
In a year when conference attendance in down 20% across the globe, this is quite an achievement. Give yourself a nice round of applause RS3G !!
participants
countries
organizations

12. 60 participants from 17 different countries 42 different organizations
EUNIS
60 participants from 17 different countries 42 different organizations
RS3G update
Steering Committee
Manifesto
Liaisons
Identity Management and Student System Standards
Defining mobility standards – European Learner Mobility
Caling out for active RS3G collaboration

13. EUNIS
Welcome by EUNIS Vice-President - Jan Madey (10: :15)
RS3G update (10: :30)
coffe break (11: :00)
The Big Picture: Identity Management and Student System Standards - a tag team that must work (12: :00)
lunch break (14: :00)
Update on European Learner Mobility project (15:00 – 15:45)
International Collaboration Projects (15: :30)
coffee break (16:30 – 17:00)
Discussion and Closing (17:00 – 17:45)

14. RS3G Steering Committee
Steering committee members
Gunnar Backelin, LADOK (SE)
Jonathan Dempsey, Digitary (IE)
Jean Francois Desnos, EUNIS (FR)
Manuel Dietz, QS unisolution (DE)
Herman de Leeuw, EAIE (NL)
Simone Ravaioli, KION (IT)
Advisors to steering committee
Jan Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research (SE)
David Moldoff, PESC and Academy One (USA)
Mark Stubbs, Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)

15. RS3G Manifesto
RS3G is an international group of stakeholders of HE contributing to:
Facilitate student mobility and lifelong learning
by:
Building community to share news and experience in student systems
Identifying and sharing opportunities to establish interoperability
Providing expertise to the development of business cases driving specifications
Contributing to, endorsing and facilitating uniform adoption towards standards
Fostering contacts with formal entities such as EC, EUA, ENQA, CEN *
Liaise with communities of interest like EAIE, EUNIS **
Showcasing outcomes of RS3G activities

16. Uppsala
RS3G Nov. 2009
Madrid
EAIE Sept.2009

17. Ladok - hosting organization
Welcome to the next workshop!
- in Uppsala, Sweden
November (16-) 17
Theme/focus:
Ladok - hosting organization