Cross-border e-learning and academic services based on eIDs: Case of Slovenia

Lack of a pan-European technical infrastructure that would enable EU citizens to easily use foreign services with their national electronic identities is one of the main obstacles of wider use of secure cross-border electronic transactions in EU. A promising approach in creating such an infrastructure is being provided by the EU STORK 2.0 project that brings together EU identity and service providers, as well as proven sources of business attributes, e.g. academic qualifications and mandates. In this paper we describe the STORK 2.0 infrastructure and three cross-border academic e-services that have been recently established in Slovenia and make use of electronic identities and sources of academic information: virtual learning environment, anonymous e-surveys, and job selection services. The services promise to be beneficial both for students and higher educational institutions, as well as for companies that make decisions on the basis of proven academic information, for example when validating job applicant´s qualifications in an electronic way.