What tools and standards are European universities actually using? This detailed inventory reveals the reality behind university data sharing.
Based on feedback from 41 university alliances, this mapping report exposes the gaps between what universities need and what technology currently offers. Many institutions are resorting to basic web scraping and manual processes to share course information – hardly the seamless digital campus they envisioned.
The report catalogues over 100 tools and services currently in use, from homegrown solutions to commercial platforms. It shows where standards like EWP and OOAPI are making a difference, and where critical gaps remain.
Most telling? Around 60% of institutions have built their own tools because existing solutions don’t meet their needs. This inventory provides the foundation for building better, more interoperable systems that actually work.