News, Events & Announcements

This section contains the latest news, events and announcements relevant to the technical community of the EWP Network, like changes in APIs, the sharing of commonly encountered bugs in implementations, security alerts, scheduled service breaks, and information on events, such as Infrastructure Forum meetings, technical workshops, conferences.

The technical community's most important news and announcements are also shared via the EWP providers mailing list.


News

Message from DG EAC

Date: 16/10/2024

DG EAC participated in the Infrastructure Forum meeting on 16/10/2024 and presented plans on evolution of the European Student Card Initiative (ESCI): .

Message from DG EAC

Date: 10/07/2024

DG EAC participated in the Infrastructure Forum meeting on 10/07/2024 and presented vision, tentative release plan and acceptable use policy: .

Message from DG EAC

Date: 12/06/2024

DG EAC participated in the Infrastructure Forum meeting on 12/06/2024 and presented priorities of actions in the EWP network relevant to the technical community: .

Mandatory Business Requirements for Nominations and Transcripts of Records

Date: 15/04/2024

Both documents have been written by the Erasmus Without Paper+ consortium and approved by DG EAC: Resources | Mandatory business requirements


Events

 


Announcements

Scheduled downtime of some central components of the EWP Network: DEV Stats Portal and Monitoring system, DEV Registration Portal, EWP DEMO Testbed.

Brief scheduled downtime of DEMO Testbed servers

Date: 29/10/2024 10-11 p.m. CEST (UTC+1)

There is a brief downtime scheduled for three of the EWP DEMO testbed servers on Tue, Oct. 29, some time between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. CET (UTC+1) due to updates to configuration. You will be unable to access the corresponding web pages for about ten minutes. The systems are for demonstration purposes only. The downtime will not affect any real-life processes of the EWP network. Systems affected:

Planned restart of the EWP Registry Service

Date: 17/10/2024 10 a.m. CEST (UTC+2)

Due to a scheduled restart, we expect a brief downtime of a few minutes of the EWP Registry Service (https://registry.erasmuswithoutpaper.eu) on Thursday, Oct.17, 10 a.m. CEST (UTC+2). The maintenance will have no impact on the operations of the EWP Network.

Brief scheduled downtime of DEMO Testbed servers

Date: 08/10/2024 1 p.m. CEST (UTC+2)

Due to scheduled system upgrades, we expect a brief downtime of three of the DEMO Testbed services, on Tue, Sep. Oct. 8, at 1 p.m. CEST (UTC+2). You will be unable to access the corresponding web pages for a few minutes. Since these are demo servers, the maintenance will have no impact on real-life processes of the EWP network.

Systems affected: