Engaging in any new activity entails considerations around the processing and storage of personal data. Adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – or in the case of European Digital Credentials for Learning (EDC) the EUDPR (i.e., the data protection Regulation applicable to EU institutions, agencies and other bodies) –, has become a given.
Europass Mobility, first introduced in 2004, is a well-established template which describes the skills acquired abroad on mobility experiences for learning or work. Europass Mobility can help communicate the new skills and experiences acquired during a traineeship, volunteering or a learning period abroad in a comparable way. Following a consultation of the National Europass Centres and Erasmus+ National Agencies in 2021, a project group was set up to modernise and simplify the template as well as provide the next steps towards its digitisation.
It has now been almost 3 years since the European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, launched the European Digital Credentials for Learning (EDC) in an online event in which more than 1,500 people took part.
Evrópsk stafræn skilríki vegna náms (European Digital Credential for Learning, EDC-skilríki) er sannprófanleg, stafræn útgáfa af skilríkjum sem stofnun gefur út til námsmanns til að skjalfesta nám hans. Þar á meðal eru prófskírteini, þjálfunarvottorð, örnámsskilríki, þátttökuvottorð og fleira. Hægt er gefa þau út á öllum tungumálum ESB og Europass og þau eru undirrituð með rafrænu innsigli (tegund stafrænnar undirskriftar sem tilheyrir viðurkenndri stofnun eða samtökum).
In response to the growing rate and scale of European Digital Credentials for Learning, the European Commission launched the Futurium Group for the European Learning Model
