The DC4EU project enables citizens to control their personal data in education and social security. It involves 43 public stakeholders and 50 organizations from 22 states, testing interoperability and scalability in national and cross-border contexts. The project creates a hybrid paradigm where citizens can directly share their data through explicit consent, supporting free movement of citizens with various entitlement documents in the social-security domain and student/staff mobility for both identity and records.
The aim is to research a trustworthy, distributed and internationally usable infrastructure standard for issuing, storing, displaying and verifying academic certificates and educational credentials in a national and international context. Thus, the project serves to define goals in the area of digital credentials for German higher education institutions that are independent of specialised process manufacturers.
Edubadges aim to make higher education accessible. edubadges are digital certificates that higher education institutions can issue to enrolled students who complete courses. At the 'back' of an edubadge, things such as the content of the course, the acquired knowledge and the responsible educational institution are described. SURF is currently conducting pilots with these edubadges in collaboration with many Dutch higher education institutions.
A proposal for a European Student Card 3rd Generation - as Passes in the Smartphone Wallet
Discussion: how can an Eduwallet contribute to Lifelong Development, personal learning paths and flexible education?
In Lifelong Development, the focus is not on the educational institution but on the learner. In order to give learners control over their own education, a number of things need to be organised digitally around the learner. A personal eduwallet with its own digital identity (eduID) and its own digital study results (educredentials/edubadges) can be an important digital tool for Lifelong Development. Within Npuls, this is being researched and tested by means of an Eduproeftuin together with educational institutions and learners.
More info: https://pretalx.surf.nl/surf-onderwijsdagen-2024/talk/PPYK3G/
Microcredentials for short term projects Made possible by EBSI
Implementation program Microcredentials, based on metadatamodel Edubadges
Project in Secondary vocational education for data exchange for examinations.
"Recognition plattform" tool for HEIs
PIM offers higher education institutions (HEI) and students a platform for inter*national student mobility. The platform is being developed as a cooperation between several higher education institutions.
An important goal of PIM is to provide HEIs with practical solutions for implementing the requirements of the Law for Digital Access (Onlinezugangsgesetz, OZG) and of the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE).
PIM is built on EU standards, main ones being EMREX/ELMO for course achievements and EDCI for the exchange of module information. The integration of EWP processes and especially of the Learning Agreement is in scope as well.
In the current project phase (11/2021 – 03/2022) PIM will be connected to the German National Education Platform (Nationale Bildungsplattform- NBP).
QualityLink aims to address all stakeholders’ needs by furnishing them with all relevant information about courses and micro-credentials from a diversity of sources to improve recognition decisions and allow learners to follow flexible learning pathways. Quality information on study programs and other courses is often dispersed throughout many different platforms and sites, and they are not interoperable. To make sure that the standards are of high quality and have ownership in the community, the consortium will create a Standards Consultation Board – a group of higher education interoperability experts from across different countries. Through creating open standards and collaboration, the project aims to establish the infrastructure for aggregating quality information from a wide range of sources.
Orientiert am Zielbild der digitalen Souveränität haben sich die Verbundpartner zusammengeschlossen, um durch Bündelung ihrer Kompetenzen und Leistungen in den Bereichen IT-Basis, Services und Content den gestiegenen Anforderungen dauerhaft gerecht werden zu können. Das SOUVER@N-Projekt versteht sich dabei als Nukleus für den Aufbau eines landesweiten Netzwerks, dessen Services und Angebote Zug-um-Zug auf alle niedersächsischen Hochschulen ausgedehnt und in bestimmten spezialisierten Bereichen später auch deutschlandweit ausgerollt werden soll.
aka Stuurgroep Metadatamodel Edubadges (The NL).
The Metadata Steering Group consists of representatives from the educational domains MBO, HBO and WO and was initially established to discuss the expansion of the metadata model. In consultation, we decided to also give the Steering Group a role in discussing possible expansions of functionalities.
See also: https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/Edubadges/Metadatamodel+Edubadges
The DC4EU project will focus on identifying and implementing all necessary measures to facilitate the issuance of educational credentials and professional qualifications in the Education sector, as well as the issuance of the Portable Document A1 (PDA1) and the European Health Insurance Card in the Social Security sector. The European Digital Identity Wallet will be a key element of hybridization for cross-sectoral and cross-border use cases (identity, signature, educational credentials and soci....