Interoperability
To give students more flexibility when studying, including outside their own institution, products, systems and organisations must be able to cooperate and exchange information without restrictions. They must be 'interoperable'. This is often not yet the case. That is why SURF, at home and abroad, works together to increase interoperability.

Did you know that interoperability has a major impact on students' opportunities for development? What is the necessary improvement of processes at the 'back end' so that students at the 'front end' can choose and develop as freely as possible?

European university alliances are on the rise. Meanwhile, 21 Dutch higher education institutions are participating in this European Commission initiative. CHARM-EU, the alliance to which Utrecht University belongs, has nine institutions from seven countries. How do you organise IT, with all these different systems, legislations and ways of working?

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