Die Plattform für inter*nationale Studierendenmobilität (PIM)

Abstract

The Platform for Inter*national Student Mobility (PIM) is emerging as a cross-university software solution for performance recognition and credit transfer in national and international student mobility, addressing the previous lack of a digital end-to-end solution. As part of the “digitale Vernetzungsinfrastruktur für die Bildung”, PIM is currently being further developed and rolled out to universities, transitioning from a project stage to productive use. PIM aims to significantly simplify the inter*national educational journey of students while ensuring the necessary process control by the universities. The article illustrates how PIM intends to create added value for the stakeholders involved through core functionalities such as "configurable workflow for recognition and credit transfer" and a "recognition and credit database." Furthermore, initial insights from the software development process are discussed, which can be relevant for the transferability to comparable digitalization activities.