2022-12-02 –, Stage 1, Leibniz-Saal, BBAW
Despite recent advances, students still face a lengthy task when trying to get external study credits recognised at their home institution. In an effort to fully digitise the recognition process, PIM, the Platform for Inter*national Student Mobility, will offer digital recognition and integration with existing systems to create a better experience for students and staff alike. Here we report on the first productive use and future plans for PIM.
In most higher education institutions the recognition of externally achieved credits is still a paper-based or only partly digital process. To this end, PIM, the Platform for Inter*national Student Mobility, wants to offer a software solution where recognition can be handled in a fully digital manner.
Within the project PIM MVP (Minimum Viable Product), major components of this software such as the module database, the recognition workflow and the recognition database have been developed. They are now being used productively for the first time at the University of Göttingen to facilitate recognition of credits after change of HEI and for international exchange within the IMKD programme livescience³.
To make the PIM software widely available, the PIM project is part of the initiative of the German National Education Platform. Here, eight higher education institutions, a university IT centre and the newly founded Paravo Education Technologies have joined in a cooperation with the goal to introduce PIM at HEIs, to further develop its functionalities and build up long-term support structures for a sustainable use of PIM.
In all development activities PIM places special emphasis on using existing standards and developing interfaces to EWP and existing systems such as student information systems and mobility software, which ensures a high level of integration.
In our presentation we show recent advances of PIM with a live demo and explain PIM’s goals for the implementation phase of the projects of the German National Education Platform. The main focus will be on our experiences from the go-live of PIM at two faculties of the university of Göttingen as an example for a rollout of PIM.
Dr. Janina Hantke is the project coordinator at PIM and works closely with the participating institutions to define the processes to be digitised and to support the rollout of PIM. She has a PhD in molecular genetics and brings her own mobility experience in the UK and Australia to the project.
Since 2020 liveSciences³ IMKD project coordinator at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; passionate about designing open international learning opportunities and facilitating student mobility with digital services.