EGRACONS – European GRAding CONversion System -Practical Approach to Improving ECTS Implementation in Europe

EGRACONS aimed to achieve a simple and unified interpretation and implementation of the ECTS grade conversion tables as recommended in the European Commission’s ECTS User’s Guide since 2009.

Funding Scheme

Lifelong Learning: Erasmus Multilateral Projects

Aims and General Description

The Egracons (European Grade Conversion System) project aimed to facilitate exchange mobility by working out a conversion system based on ECTS grade conversion tables as recommended in the European 2015 ECTS Users’ guide. The project ended on 1 october 2015 and aimed to build up a wide-spread awareness and common understanding of the different grading systems in Europe and to enable an accurate interpretation of grades (or marks) given abroad, leading to a fair and manageable conversion of these grades to a local grade in the home institution.

The results of the project therefore benefit students, academic staff, the administration and even future employers. The project mapped grading practices in countries and individual institutions  leading to a full description of the grading systems in use in Europe. It also developed an online, web-based Egracons tool that allows direct and automatic conversions of  grades on the basis of annual, statistically-based grading tables supplied by individual institutions as part of an overall database.

The tool can be freely used provided an HEI has submitted its grading tables and after individual registration for the tool at https://tool.egracons.eu