EG Vigilo, together with Utdanningsdirektoratet, Utdanningsetaten in Oslo and Trondheim municipality, has been nominated for the 1EdTech Learning Impact Awards for its work introducing a common Norwegian standard for data exchange in schools.
The nomination recognises the collaboration that led to the Norwegian profile of OneRoster 1.2: a national adaptation of the international standard to Norwegian school and education conditions.
The nomination was put forward by Kristoffer Iversen of EG Vigilo in cooperation with the Norwegian education authorities, Oslo and Trondheim municipality.
What are the 1EdTech Learning Impact Awards?
1EdTech is an international membership organisation that develops and certifies open standards for educational technology. The organisation's Learning Impact Awards are presented to projects and collaborations that document concrete progress in digital learning and interoperability. This year's European conference, 1EdTech Learning Impact Europe 2026, takes place in Thessaloniki on 15–17 September 2026.
From international standard to local implementation
OneRoster is an international standard for exchanging data between educational systems, including information on students, teachers, classes and learning resources. The purpose is to make integrations more uniform and reduce the need for custom-built solutions.
EG Vigilo has delivered OneRoster-based integrations since 2020 and achieved certification under the latest version, OneRoster 1.2, in April 2025. The Norwegian profile of the standard was developed to adapt the international format to the specific structures of Norwegian schools and early childhood education centres and was published in 2025.
Senior Project Manager Kristoffer Iversen at EG will present the experiences from the close collaboration at the Thessaloniki conference with the talk «From Local Implementation to Global Standard: Norway's OneRoster Journey».
«The nomination is a recognition of the work we have done together with UDIR, Utdanningsetaten in Oslo and Trondheim municipality, among others. We have not just implemented a standard, we have helped shape it to fit Norwegian conditions. This shows that collaboration between suppliers and authorities can produce results that reach beyond the national level», says Kristoffer Iversen, Senior Project Manager, EG Vigilo.
Utdanningsetaten in Oslo agrees that the collaboration has been successful and deserves recognition:
«EG Vigilo's participation in the national working group has been crucial to the successful development of the OneRoster standards and services in Norway. By implementing the standards in parallel with development, Vigilo has been able to test new solutions on an ongoing basis, drive progress and ensure that implementation and standardisation have evolved side by side», says Joakim Wold Nylen, Oslo municipality, Section for Analysis.
The nomination strengthens EG Vigilo's position as a supplier with documented experience in open standards and interoperability in the Nordic education sector.
A shared standard benefits schools
The Norwegian profile of OneRoster 1.2 is not merely a translation of the international standard, but an adaptation to Norwegian conditions on several specific points.
One of the most important additions is a brand-new service for handling student absence. The international standard did not cover this need, and the Norwegian profile therefore introduces a solution that distinguishes between authorised and unauthorised absence at both detailed and aggregated levels.
For municipalities and schools using EG Vigilo, the benefits are concrete.
Security in data sharing is strengthened because OAuth 2.0 replaces older and weaker authentication.
Student and staff records become more precise and more readily available through an expanded concept framework.
Municipalities gain better tools for analysing grade and absence data.
And through Onedhub, it becomes easier to connect third-party solutions without custom-built integrations, because more suppliers now use the same standardised language.
Data is updated continuously, reducing delays in the flow of information between systems.
For Norwegian educational institutions, the result of the standardisation work is therefore both practical and important in creating a more coherent and secure digital everyday.
