a. T1.1 Pilot the architecture and report the results

Responsible partners for the piloting: Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI) and CSC

Contact persons: Ari Rouvari, CSC and Sami Mäkinen, EDUFI

The framework architecture's purpose is to describe the learner's pathway at a very generic level so that the framework can be deployed across the member countries of European Union. The holistic approach takes into account all stakeholders to build an ecosystem and helps digitalizing the learner’s pathway without information boundaries.

The Framework architecture describes learner’s pathway from different perspectives: business, information and applications. Architecture work method is based on global standards.

Read more about the Framework architecture design that has been done in WP2: https://wiki.eduuni.fi/x/owmQAw 

A more detailed piloting plan for the framework architecture can be found here.

EXAMPLE: HOW THIS FRAMEWORK CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN FINLAND

International deployment  

The consortium has now decided to focus more on the existing EU-wide networks on lifelong learning, digital innovations in education, guidance and counselling, like innoVET (joined by Gradia), Europass (joined by Edufi and DUO), Euroguidance (joined by Edufi and DUO) and other possible partners with established institutional role in the EU-level collaboration, like Die EU-Geschäftsstelle der Bezirksregierung Köln in Germany (EU Agency in Cologne).

The deployment in other EU-countries will consist of exploration of existing educational data systems in place in said countries. This implies that the deployment on the EU-level will primarily be on the architectural level. In more detail, the deployment process in these countries will preliminary follow the outlines described below:

• Exploration of the chosen countries with existing similar or customisable educational register data in place (i.e. national student register databases and/or national databases on curricula).
• Upon choosing the countries, the systems in place will be examined, and the possible role and data architectural position will be investigated. The main question at this stage would be if and how the CompLeap system would fit into the architecture of said countries.
• In these countries, there would most probably be no concrete service to be deployed – rather the deployment would consist of the abovementioned desk research on the possibilities of future deployment.

We will organize separate workshops for the key persons and in addition, join the network meetings with motivating and expanding presentations of CompLeap. The first of these workshops has been held in Cologne with the EU Agency in Cologne. In the first workshop, we evaluated the CompLeap framework architecture in relation to the German national and regional educational system architecture. After this evaluation, plans on future collaboration and possible more concrete deployment of the prototype are outlined.

1.1.  Timetable for international deployment