University Management System for the EU

Yes. The Diploma Supplement is generated per the joint European Commission, Council of Europe, and UNESCO/CEPES template. Output is bilingual (national language plus English) and covers all eight required sections. The template is version-controlled so updates to the EHEA guidance can be applied centrally.

Each course is assigned an ECTS credit value based on total student workload, using the standard of 25 to 30 hours of work per credit as defined in the ECTS Users' Guide 2015. This covers lectures, seminars, self-study, and assessment. Programs are typically 60 ECTS per academic year, matching the Bologna Process framework.

Yes, when configured for EU operation. Self-hosting in an EU or EEA data center keeps student personal data within the appropriate jurisdiction. The platform ships with a signed Data Processing Agreement, Records of Processing Activities per GDPR Article 30, role-based access controls, immutable audit logs, and Data Subject Access Request workflows. Institutions retain the role of Data Controller.

Yes. Because OpenEduCat is open-source under LGPLv3, universities install it on any infrastructure they choose: national research computing services (like GEANT-connected data centers), on-premises servers, or EU-region public cloud. This is important for institutions bound by national sovereignty rules on public sector data.

Yes. OpenEduCat produces EWP-compatible data for learning agreements, inter-institutional agreements, and course catalog exchange. This aligns with the Erasmus+ 2021-2027 program requirement to digitize mobility administration and phase out paper-based learning agreements.

Each program can be configured with the national grading scale (French 0-20, German 1-5, Spanish 0-10, Italian 18-30, and others) alongside the ECTS grading table showing the distribution of grades. Transcripts show both the national grade and ECTS letter grade for incoming mobility students.

Yes. Multiple institutions in an alliance can standardize on OpenEduCat while each running its own instance in its own country for sovereignty. Alliance-wide reporting is done through a shared BI layer or federated data model. Joint programs, blended intensive programs, and shared course catalogs are natively supported through ECTS.

The Community Edition is free under LGPLv3. Enterprise support with SLA-backed help, priority patches, and managed EU hosting starts at 19 EUR (equivalent to $19 USD) per user per month. For a 15,000-student university, this is significantly lower than the multi-million EUR annual cost of proprietary Ellucian or Anthology platforms.