The European student card (ESC) is a project which aims to simplify student’s mobility within the European area and making possible the dissemination of the identity and status of a student through a communication between Information systems of the partner HEIs and players concerned by students in a secure and efficient way. The project will primarily develop a framework and common standards for interoperability between HEI systems and will produce a prototype, but it will also work out concrete connectors and test the system at a regional scale until the end of the project (2018)..The interconnection of HEi’s information systems will allow the recognition of student status and identity through the European student card which can be used and accepted in the EHEA. This procedure will facilitate the access to services provided on campus. At local level multiservice cards exist: they offer a rich variety of services through cooperation between different institutions and student service providers. ESC will be based on the existing systems and skills developed in each country on the student card. The goal is to build the project in an agile and interactive approach. The system will rely on the simple principle of communication between existing information systems of the HEIs involved in the project. This interface will adhere to data protection regulations and will generate a digital identity certifying the status of student. It will be potentially available for all students and free, and will give potentially access to the rights and services linked to the student status. The student status will be updated in real time and give access to the offer of rights and services already delivered by the HEI's and stduent services organisations.The consortium of 9 partner institutions composed of umbrella nationalwide organisations for student services (Cnous, DSW, ENDISU Foundation), networks of HEIs (EDUCatt, CSSI) and local student service organisations (Crous Besançon and Strasbourg, STW Karlsruhe, ESU PD) from 4 countries with a potential dissemination to over 500 HEIs from 46 European countries (including 27 members of the European Union) have taken up the initiative to encourage the HEIs to exchange student digeital identity by determining the feasibility of their IT project with a real time implementation on pilot territory. The main outcome will be to create an enterprise service bus (ESB) platform. To that end, guidelines describing the functional and technical specifications necessary for the spreading of student status will be written in order to define standards and exchange formats as well as the graphics standards of the card. The needs and purposes of the ESC are defined in particular by the "Erasmus without paper" consortium for Erasmus+ mobility and the students ervices organisations.As for the Bologna process, the free and spontaneous joining membership by the HEI will make the success of this project. This card aims to solve the different persistent obstacles which prohibit the potential of student mobility being fully exploited and which jeopardize the realization of the mobility targets envisaged for 2020. ESC intends to be a tool for the students as well as for the HEIs and contributes to strengthen the social dimension of the EHEA by enabling the reciprocity of services available to students. The European student card result's (guidelines, IT platform, technical procedures) will be disseminated inside the umbrella organisations such as Cnous, DSW, ENDISU Foundation and the network of students services in Ireland and outside: All partners are encouraged to promote the project on local, regional and national level with the aim to extent the project to public or private partners. ESC is assured of its sustainability as it is carried out by national networks of student service organizations which make it available to each and every HEI candidate. The subsequently filed European project would focus on the operation of an open platform for all member organizations of Bologna process. The European student card is clearly at the same time an initiative of the HEIs and other players concerned by students and a political priority.In 2018 ESC will be proposed as a new goal by the French secretariat of Bologna.