EC2U - European Campus of City-Universities
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EC2U Digital Card

European Campus of City-Universities

Service Description

The EC2U virtual web-based Card Management System is the centralized application in charge of issuing and managing EC2U cards on behalf of all universities.
All EC2U people can get their virtual cards by authenticating themselves using the personal eduGain credential provided by the university they come from. The card will contain a few personal information (such as the card holder name, the expiring date, the identifier, the card number, the EC2U hologram, the university logo and a QR-Code for integrity verification). The card holders can then show their own card to the local public service providers in order to get the services they need. By scanning the QR-code, the local providers can verify the integrity and the validness of the card. The virtual card can be downloaded using either desktop and mobile devices and in this latter case, depending on the used operating system, the card can be stored inside a native wallet app, to keep it safe.


Users

The EC2U virtual card is usable by all EC2U peoples: students, teachers or staff, as long as they are provided with eduGain credentials by their university.


Management

Each university can interact with the system via API or application in order to issue EC2U Cards. Implementing local adapters to interact with the Card Management System is left in charge of each university: each partner indeed with the support of the Consortium and the possible involvement of external suppliers will be responsible for implementing local procedures enabling their systems to receive and send data requests to the EC2U Card Management System according to the shared standards.


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Privacy

No user data will be stored inside the EC2U Card Management System but just retrieved by two different repositories:

  1. ESC Router: this system is part of the EWP infrastructure, it holds several information about people involved in a Erasmus process. Those information is retrieved by the EC2U Card Management System via API;
  2. Local University Identity Management System: this system is managed by the local universities and contains information about the user identity, such as username and password as well as the European Student Identifier. Such information is retrieved by the EC2U Card Management System through eduGain.
These two repositories comply with the european’s general data protection regulation (GDPR).