Projects

Open Badges

Website: http://eu-obp.eu/

Project is developed under Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership programme (Adult education)

Name of the project:European Open Badges Platform

Project period:01.10.2019 – 30.09.2021

Project No.:2019-1-RO01-KA204-063793

Project partnership:

1. Fundatia EuroEd Romania
2. Technologiko Panepistimio Kyprou Cyprus
3. Folkuniversitetet Stiftelsen Vid Lunds Universitet Sweden
4. Metodo Estudios Consultores SL Spain
5. Volkshochschule Im Landkreis Cham EV Germany
6. Accion Laboral Plataforma Para La Implantacion De Programas De Inclusion Laboral En Colectivos Desfavorecidos Spain
7. Ljudska Univerza Ptuj Slovenia
8. Lycee Charles Et Adrien DuPuy France

The main aim of the projectis to assess, develop and promote the common EU platform for digital badges, targeted at adult education. Open badge is a file of the shape of an icon or medal issued to prove skills or achievements of people. The file contains metadata: name of the issuer, the criteria it was issued under, evidence verifying the credential and expiry date. Main advantage of open badges is their availability and representational opportunities. They present innovative tools for recognition of achieved soft skills to employers or educators, and could be included into EU-based Europass CV system.

The main target group: adult education organizations, adult educators

and adult learners

Results:

-1 Reader for theoretical background on advantages of open badges

-1 Toolkit for practical presentation of good practices

-1 Web Platform offering open source access to 500 validated and already used open badges for

adult education for recognition of soft skills and 8 key competences in common digital cloud space

-1 Guidelines listing the procedures and activities needed for open badges implementation on 3

levels: organizational, teacher/mentor and participant level

-140 new open badges, uploaded onto EU-OBP platform

-10 videos to show how to create open badges and share them on social media