The EPICUR Inter-University Campus (EIUC) is EPICUR's central online gateway for supporting flexible virtual, physical and hybrid mobilities for all students and staff across the alliance. One of its unique features is its fully digitalized, paper-free process for student admissions that is supported by a secure, scalable and transparent solution based on free and open-source software. Furthermore, the EIUC offers innovative functionality to monitor mobilities, issue and recognize certifications (including ECTS and micro-credentials).

The main EIUC components are the following:

For teachers in EPICUR this means that they do not have to re-build their course on a central LMS that they are most likely unfamiliar with, but can, instead, continue to offer their courses in the virtual environment of their choice.

Students, on the other hand, are granted fast and easy access to courses on local platforms of all nine partners.

Beyond its main function of serving as a gateway to the local partner Learning Management Systems - the central VCLP (which is based on the open source ILIAS LMS) has also been used to foster communities of learning and practice among EPICUR teachers and students. For GDPR reasons, only LMS tools or approved plugins were used.

Below you find a selection of ILIAS functions and tools that have proved beneficial for communication and collaboration purposes in their teaching and learning contexts.