The main challenge for vocational training organisations right now is to try and close the gap between acquired and demonstrable skills, while also giving students full control over their own achievements.
Being a global citizen today means moving between countries, sectors and roles, whilst always having the need to carry clear documentation of your achievements. For VET students, the challenge has never been acquiring the necessary skills and experiences but finding a consistent way to demonstrate them because fragmented and unconnected certificates make it difficult for employers and institutions to verify and trust them.
Digital credentials address this structural problem: they describe the competences while also being automatically verifiable and recognised across borders. The added value for students is that they can store them in a personal digital portfolio and share them whenever and wherever they want, without having to rely on the institutions that issued them.
Credemia makes this possible through a platform with credentials based on open and interoperable standards, which respect the educational models of each institution and give students full ownership of what they have achieved. An essential building block for global citizenship through vocational training.
Author: Anita Conti, Marketing Intern for Credemia