Yes, these are indeed represented by a single class, because even though they may have different roles, to describe an organisation you will need to specify values for the same standard properties (e.g. legal name, location, VAT number, logo, homepage, etc.).

Yes, it is possible to match one or more ISCED-F to one qualification.

The European Accreditation Database is a separate database that is populated automatically based on records in the QDR, which contains:

• information on programme accreditations that were included in qualifications uploaded to the QDR
• information on institutional accreditations which were uploaded to the QDR

Accreditation is the act of granting credit or recognition to an educational institution that meets a general standard of the quality. Accreditation is generally granted to the institutions by competent authorities such as Ministries of Education.

The content here is defined according to Annex VI of the EQF Recommendation of 2017. Learning outcomes should be either formulated in terms of knowledge, skills, and responsibility and autonomy or as an open text field specifying what a learner is expected to know, understand and be able to do. The text should express the essence of the learning outcomes of the qualification. If the full learning outcome descriptions are too long, the ‘more information’ property can be used to supply additional free text.

A Learning Opportunity is an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to achieve a given set of learning outcomes. Examples are an educational programme or a component of a programme (i.e. degree programme, a module, a course unit).

A Learning Specification is used to specify what a person did learn OR what a person can learn.

A Qualification is a generalisation of a learning specification describing details such as learning outcomes of an awarded qualification (learning specifications + EQF level + other information). In the ELM data model, learning opportunities and qualifications can be linked with each other, reusing various properties, such as the learning outcomes, as common. A learning opportunity, when successfully concluded, can lead to a qualification but is not a qualification by itself.

The owner is the organisation that designs and sets the content of the qualification (even though they may not be the ones directly awarding it) or learning opportunity. This agent type does not exist anymore in ELM v.2/3 version.

The publisher is the organisation registered to QDR and which publishes the information to the EU infrastructure.