The Infrastructure Forum represents the Erasmus Without Paper technical community: IT colleagues in higher education institutions and from 3rd-party software providers. Their cooperation is essential as they implement EWP’s technical standards.
The forum shapes the technical evolution of EWP, ensures timely implementation across the network, and promotes cooperation among technical teams. It also serves as a platform for IT colleagues to raise technical questions and make sure that requirements and specifications are clear to all technical teams.
The Infrastructure Forum meets once a month. Below you will find the schedule of the meetings, key agenda points, and resources (published shortly before the meeting).
Invitations to the Infrastructure Forum meetings are shared with the technical community via the EWP providers mailing list.
Technical workshops for the technical community, mostly focused on testing, are usually organized twice a year.
Infrastructure Forum meetings
Date
Time
Key agenda points
Resources
Date
Time
Key agenda points
Resources
18/01/2023
10:00 - 12:00
EWP statistics and Stats portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Registration Portal in DEV and PROD
Introduction to discussion on APIs – DEG EAC
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
15/02/2023
10:00 - 12:00
EWP statistics and Stats portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Registration Portal in DEV and PROD
Introduction to discussion on APIs – DEG EAC
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
15/03/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Invitation to a technical workshop in Thessaloniki
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Registration Portal in DEV and PROD
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
Terminate&Modify - Voting results:
19/04/2023
10:00 - 12:00
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
DG EAC - Introduction to changes in API specifications
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
17/05/2023
10:00 - 12:00
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
DG EAC - Voting results
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
Terminate&Mapping - Voting results:
31/05/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Extra informal meeting to discuss IIA version 7.0.0
Presentation:
21/06/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Changes in API specifications - IIAs and IIA Approvals
Presentation:
19/07/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Changes in API specifications - a family of IIA APIs
Presentation:
20/09/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Workshop in October in Warsaw
Monitoring of the EWP Network
EWP IT Service Catalogue
Registration Portal in the DEV Network
IIAs 6.3.0 and 7.0.0 - GitHub issues
Presentation:
18/10/2023
10:00 - 12:00
EWP Developers Guide
Registration Portal in the DEV and PROD networks
New functionalities in the Stats Portal
IIAs 6.3.0 and 7.0.0
Presentation:
DELETE - summary of the chat from the workshop:
DELETE. MODIFY, switch v6 to v7 - scenarios:
15/11/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Registration Portal in the DEV and PROD EWP networks
Changes in the EWP Registry
EWP Developers Guide
IIAs 6.3.0 and 7.0.0
Presentation:
IIA DELETE and IIA Approval summary:
DELETE. MODIFY, switch v6 to v7 - scenarios:
13/12/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Date
Time
Key agenda points
Resources
Date
Time
Key agenda points
Resources
10/02/2022
10:00 - 12:00
EWP technical update
Testing reports among 3PP (EUF)
ESCI FWC and upcoming meetings (EUF)
Erasmus+ App further developments (DG EAC)
ESI roll-out (DG EAC)
Timeline for deployment of new APIs
Presentation:
Presentation by DG EAC:
02/03/2022
10:00 - 12:00
About Infrastructure Forum meetings
Changes in specifications
Timeline for deployment
Good practices in the network
Future activities – tracking system and statistical reports
Message from DG EAC
Presentation:
Q&A:
06/04/2022
10:00 - 12:00
Organization of the Infrastructure Forum and other communication channels
Decision making
Changes in specifications
Pending issues
Future activities – Conformance validation and testing
Presentation:
20/04/2022
10:00 - 12:00
API specifications
Manifest files
Presentation:
Manifest files:
04/05/2022
10:00 - 12:00
API specifications - resolved issues and new proposals
Tracking and statistics - ideas
Presentation:
25/05/2022
10:00 - 12:00
API specifications
Statistics
Registration Portal and EWP Admin attribute
ECHE Holders list, data cleaning, EWP Stats Portal
Presentation:
22/06/2022
10:00 - 12:00
API specifications - summary
Statistics - with support from DG EAC
Registration Portal
Reinforcement (Action ) Plan - with support from EUF and DG EAC
Presentation:
29/06/2022
10:00 - 12:00
Presentation of the Reinforcement Plan
Presentation:
26/07/2022
10:00 - 12:00
Workshops in September in Warsaw
Registration Portal
Recent changes in API specifications
Statistics - specification and timeline
ECHE List API and EWP Stats Portal
Presentation:
17/08/2022
10:00 - 12:00
Statistics - results and further steps
Registration Portal
Registry
EWP Stats Portal
Logging requests and responses
Workshops in September in Warsaw
Presentation:
19/10/2022
10:00 - 12:00
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Registration Portal in DEV and PROD - further steps
Registry and a large catalogue file
Changes in API specifications
Changes in manes, ounits, SCHAC
Presentation:
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal:
16/11/2022
10:00 - 12:00
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Registration Portal in DEV and PROD - further steps
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
14/12/2022
10:00 - 12:00
EWP Statistics and Stats Portal
Monitoring of the EWP Network
Registration Portal in DEV and PROD - further steps
Changes in API specifications
Presentation:
Voting results:
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Technical workshops
Date
Event
Summary
Date
Event
Summary
30/03/2023 31/03/2023
Workshop in Thessaloniki
More than 100 participants registered for the workshop, on-site and remote. The mobility software providers had an excellent opportunity to test their implementations, real-time, in an open and friendly environment, where issues encountered could be addressed without delays on the spot by the participating development teams. More than 30 testing sessions took place during the 2-day workshop. Testing partners were urged by the hosts to record their testing sessions, and provide feedback on how the testing session went, in a collaborative manner, in a spreadsheet, shared among all participants during the workshop.
03/10/2023 04/10/2023
Workshop in Warsaw for the mobility software providers, implementing version 6.3.0 and 7.0.0 of IIAs
Over 50 participants took part in the workshops (both remotely and on-site) organised at the University of Warsaw, among whom were representatives of the EWP Dashboard, 3rd-party providers, and in-house solutions. The event was focused on testing the inter-institutional agreements (IIAs) functionality with different systems. Moreover, IT colleagues had a chance to discuss their doubts and issues concerning the upcoming IIA functionality updates in the EWP network with the EWP consortium.