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Digivisio 2030 will move on to a new phase in 2025–2027. In the next few years, the project will focus on three areas, without forgetting operational change and internationalisation.
Phase 1 paved the way – now the journey continues
Digivisio 2030 project has now reached the transition point between phases 1 and 2. The most visible output of the project’s phase 1 was Opin.fi, a service published in spring 2025, in which opportunities for open learning offered by Finnish higher education institutions are displayed on a single site. The service helps users find open studies suitable for their needs and situation and facilitates continuous learning.
At the core of Opin.fi is the higher education institutions’ shared data platform developed in Digivisio project, to which information on the studies offered is automatically transferred from higher education institutions’ systems. The shared platform enables smooth data transfers, use of the data for different needs and more agile building of new services, and it will also continue to facilitate all this in the future. Its real benefits will consequently be revealed going forward. To improve interoperability, the implementation of a HEDS/HEDI interface model was launched, and the first higher education institutions will deploy the HEDI interface in 2025.
In order to make all this possible, the project’s inputs have also been needed in such areas as facilitating cooperation between the 37 higher education institutions, organising IT service provision, supporting operational change, updating the reference architecture and developing e-learning capabilities. This means that while much has already been achieved, there is also a lot more to be done.
The project will focus on three areas in the future
In 2025–2027, the goal of Digivisio 2030 is to:
- Continue to develop the service platform, especially for the needs of flexible degree studies
- Build guidance services for learners based on e-learning, the learner’s path and shared data
- Support higher education institutions in a transition towards more effective cooperation and knowledge-based management.
To achieve these goals, the project will focus on three areas over the next few years:
Further development of Opin.fi
After the service was launched in spring 2025, the development of Opin.fi will continue in the next few years, based on both feedback received and the guidance provided by the higher education institutions. Together with the higher education institutions and HigherEd Hub Finland Oy, Digivisio aims to ensure that the service will establish itself in the market and become familiar to the general public. The growing offer of studies and increasing user numbers will also generate more data to support the development of both the service and the higher education institutions’ content.
Replacement of Virta higher education achievement register
Virta is a service for storing the study attainments, rights to study and attendance data of degree students at higher education institutions and for making them available to the authorities and others. This service will be replaced under the Ministry of Education and Culture’s leadership in the next few years.
Digivisio is responsible for one of the overall transformation projects, and in the future the data will be imported to the higher education institutions’ shared data platform, which is being developed by Digivisio 2030. Going forward, the platform will also enable the use of the data in other services.
New solutions for degree studies
While phase 1 of the project put the continuous learner at the centre, degree students will now also be engaged. The aim is to provide degree students with more flexibility and help them find the right studies at the right time. Flexibility means that degree students could also include studies other than those offered at their home institution in their degrees. In the future, Opin.fi could also help degree students find, compare and filter flexible study opportunities that are a good match with their degrees. For example, this would give more visibility to the opportunities offered by higher education institutions as networks.
Further work on operational change will be a precondition for success in the next phase
From the start, Digivisio has been a change project above all, and it will also continue in the same vein. The goal of technical solutions is to support this change.
In order to make the most of the three project areas mentioned above it is, for example, important for the higher education institutions to improve the quality of learning data and to collect them more extensively. To make use of the solutions, joint agreements, commitment and division of responsibilities are also required of the higher education institutions, as no party can achieve this alone. Digivisio will support the higher education institutions in this operational change.
Turning the gaze towards Europe
Many higher education institutions are involved in European Universities and engage in great deal of other European cooperation. This means that just promoting interoperability in Finland is not enough: data relating to learners and education must flow smoothly and be of high quality and interoperable across Europe. For example, smooth flows of course information and learners’ data within the European Higher Education Area would improve the levels of competence and competitiveness in Europe. Many European-level initiatives are indeed aimed at strengthening the unified European Education Area.
The higher education institutions’ joint policy is that European interoperability will be promoted on funding external to Digivisio. This is why Digivisio and its partners have applied to the European Union for funding.
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Digivisio’s target scenario has been updated
The target scenario puts into words the shared ambitions of Finnish higher education institutions for teaching and learning in the 2030s. Both phases 1 and 2 of the project are aimed at attaining the goals of the target scenario. The target scenario was updated in 2025 as the project entered phase 2.