The agreement will allow students to manage the authenticity of their documents from their smartphones, through a free application that will make it easier for them to share their data with the university and with third parties, guaranteeing the inviolability and authenticity of the document, as it is registered in blockchain, benefiting from the innovation that Web3 represents.

Advantages of document certification: agility, convenience and security

• It facilitates the promotion of the document, since it allows it to be shared quickly and comfortably with third parties.
• The student is the sovereign owner of his data and decides where, how and when to display and use it.
• The application and blockchain support technology guarantee its authenticity, its inviolability and prevent any type of fraud.

The agreement will also make it easier for each university student to have a self-managed digital identity (Self-Sovereign Identity), to which the above documents are associated, forming a UDIT Smart Portfolio, interoperable with universities and institutions in other countries, by using the Verifiable Credentials standard of the European Commission and the EUDI Wallet digital identity of its European Blockchain Services Infrastructure initiative.

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The agreement will allow students to manage the authenticity of their diplomas from their smartphones, through a free application that will make it easier for them to share the degree data with employment platforms, recruiters and third parties, guaranteeing the inviolability and authenticity of the degree, as it is registered on the blockchain, benefiting from the innovation that Web3 represents.

Advantages of certifying degrees: agility, convenience and security

• It facilitates the enhancement of the diploma, as it allows it to be shared quickly and easily with third parties.
• The holder is the sovereign owner of his data and decides where, how and when to display and use it.
• The application and blockchain support technology guarantee their authenticity, their inviolability and prevent any type of fraud.

The agreement will also make it possible to extend the certification of degrees on blockchain to other educational institutions in Morocco and to enhance their interoperability with universities in other countries, by using the Verifiable Credentials standard of the European Commission and the EUDI Wallet digital identity of its European Blockchain Services Infrastructure initiative.

With this certification, CESA joins the community of universities and institutions in Morocco, whose degrees are recorded, in accordance with this standard, on a mature and scalable blockchain network, by using smart contracts and the Quorum platform, based on Ethereum.

This certification makes it easier for students to gain value in the labor market and prevents any falsification, thanks to blockchain technology.

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The directors of Attijariwafa bank can manage their training certificates from their smartphone, through a free app that allows them the following benefits:

• It facilitates the enhancement of skills and abilities, speeding up their sharing with work platforms, recruiters, social networks and third parties.
• The director is the sovereign owner of his data and decides how, where and when to show it.
• The app and the supporting technology, blockchain, guarantee its inviolability and prevent fraud.

Professional training certificates

These are the first professional certificates in internal company training in Morocco, registered in a scalable blockchain network, using the Verifiable Credentials standard, adopted worldwide and developed by the European Commission, to promote the interoperability of certifications between institutions. It uses the distributed ledger technology of Web3, blockchain, whose innovative nature allows the decentralization of certifications, avoiding intermediaries, previously necessary. As a result, enormous possibilities are opened up for qualified managers, the bank and other participants in the ecosystem.

The agreement will also allow the extension of the certification of titles in blockchain to other training courses, to other countries in Africa where the bank has a presence, as well as to other areas that Attijariwafa bank considers. In particular, it highlights the opportunity to use digital identity for its employees, through the EUDI Wallet developed in the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure initiative.

With this certification, Attijariwafa bank joins the community of universities and institutions in Morocco, whose degrees are recorded, according to this standard, on a mature and scalable blockchain network, using smart contracts and the Quorum platform, based on Ethereum.

Attijariwafa bank is the largest bank in Morocco and a benchmark in Africa and Europe, present in multiple countries.

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This agreement allows students to benefit from the advantages of an innovative platform that prevents all forms of counterfeiting. Users will be able to manage the authenticity of their degrees from their mobile phones, through a free application that will allow them to share the diploma data with labor platforms, recruitment companies and third parties, guaranteeing the inviolability and authenticity of the diploma, since it is registered on blockchain.

Advantages of diploma certification: agility, convenience and security

• It facilitates the enhancement of the degree, since it allows it to be shared quickly and conveniently with other parties.
• The user is the sovereign owner of his data and decides where, how and when to display and use it.
• The application and blockchain support technology guarantee its authenticity, inviolability and prevent any type of fraud.

With this certification, British Center Group is the first SmartDegrees certified English language center in Morocco and joins the community of schools and universities in Morocco, whose diplomas are registered, according to the European Commission’s Verifiable Credentials standard, in a mature and scalable blockchain platform, using smart contracts and Quorum, based on Ethereum.

This certification makes it easier for students to gain value in the labor market and prevents any falsification, thanks to blockchain technology.

About British Center Group

It is a center for learning and improving the English language, which, since 1969, has offered programs based on proven pedagogy, taught by experienced teachers and adapted to the specific needs of its students and its partners.

About SmartDegrees

It is a platform for the registration and certification of academic diplomas and corporate training, with associated services, which allow them to be valued in the labor market and in society, while making them inviolable, ensuring their validity indefinitely. Additionally, it offers community management services with sovereign digital identity, based on blockchain (SSI), and strategic business consulting, to facilitate the incorporation of blockchain in the digital transformation of institutions.

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Governmental entities can issue claims about citizens and businesses easily in a Web3 consumable format, such as Verifiable Credentials, as João Rodrigues Frade, Head of Building Blocks sector in DIGIT, European Commission, highlighted at Brussels Blockchain Week, from 7 to 8 June.

European Blockchain Services Infrastructure

European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) helps the public sector to issue Verifiable Credentials, which become ‘reputation tokens’. EBSI is unique by making data from authentic sources of the public sector available in Web3-ready format, providing more transparency, censorship resistancy and openess to new entrants and innovators.

EBSI and Web3 have a crucial role in transforming the issuance of governmental claims, and governments have a role to play in bringing trust into the nascent Web3 economy, benefiting the citizens of Europe… Read more.

SmartDegrees has adhered to this European initiative, incorporating the Verifiable Credentials standard in its clients since July 2020, to take full advantage in favor of the universities and the final users.

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The objective is to help public administrations accelerate the creation of trustworthy cross border digital services.

Components

Verifiable Credentials associate three concepts:

• Decentralized identifier (DID).
• Verifiable credentials lifecycle, which enables standardization and scalable implementation.
• Digital wallets, allowing user interactions exchanging digital credentials, where VC are supported on them.

The video explains the Verifiable Credentials, its infrastructure (European Blockchain Services Infrastructure, EBSI), and the vast opportunities that it currently provides, through a user’s journey (“Eva’s trip“).

SmartDegrees has adhered to this European initiative, incorporating the Verifiable Credentials standard in its clients since July 2020, and is participating in the Early Adopters Programme to ensure that SmartDegrees wallet takes full advantage of the value of this ecosystem in favor of the universities and the final users.

(Source: CEF Digital)

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This is the first postgraduate course oriented to the new music industry, where its students learn how to obtain financing for their musical projects, understand blockchain technology and NFTs, as well as what to do with these technologies in the music industry along with other techniques to increase their profits and optimize their yields.

The new music industry

The new music industry is the transformation of the traditional industry, the record, publishing and rights management models based on the use of more efficient technologies and innovative models that focus on independent creators, trying to decentralize as much as possible the music ecosystem.

These are the first professional certificates of skills and training in the new music industry, registered in a mature, hybrid blockchain network (own network and Alastria network, to provide greater transparency to the certificates), scalable and with the potential that allow smart contracts, such as Quorum, based on Ethereum. It uses the newly created European Commission Verifiable Credentials standard, which provides interoperability with other institutions. It uses the distributed ledger technology, blockchain, whose innovative character makes it the most important to change education and for the decentralization of the musical ecosystem, opening up enormous possibilities for graduate users, companies, educational institutions, platforms of work and recruiters.

Larrosa Academy students will be able to manage their certificates from their smartphone, through a free app that allows them the following benefits:

• It facilitates the enhancement of skills and abilities, streamlining their sharing with work platforms, recruiters, social networks and third parties.
• The student is the sovereign owner of their data and decides how, where and when to display it.
• The app and the supporting technology, blockchain, guarantee its inviolability and prevent fraud.

About Larrosa Music Group

It is a consultancy specialized in investment and financing of musical projects, which also has a record division (Rose Records, 2020) and a publishing house. It is founded by Cristian Larrosa, producer, composer and performer, with 5 published albums and a 20-year career as an executive in the music industry, founding companies in Latin America, the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain.

About SmartDegrees

SmartDegrees is a platform for the registration and certification of academic degrees and corporate training, with associated services, which allow their value in the labor market and in society, while making them inviolable, ensuring their validity indefinitely. Additionally, it offers management services for communities with self-sovereign identity, based on blockchain (SSI), and strategic business consultancy, to facilitate the incorporation of blockchain in the digital transformation of institutions.

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European digital credentials

Its document Joining forces towards European digital credentials describes the opportunities and advantages of the initiative and the following information:

• Its infrastructure, European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), first EU-wide blockchain infrastructure, which began being operational in Q1 2020.
• Verifiable Credentials (VC) standard.
• Digital wallets, self-sovereign identities (SSI) and the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF) standard.
• User seamless experience, explaining in detail the process followed by a cross border university student, involving three countries, its public administrations and two universities (Eva Journey).
• An incubator, Early Adopters Programme, to facilitate the adherance of administrations, universities, providers and other stakeholders. The programme has set up the specifications EBSI compliance, in particular the required ones in the digital wallets and its APIs, to ensure interoperability.

Currently, as of 30 November 2021, the situation is:

• 29 countries are participating in the European Blockchain Partnership, that supports the initiative,
• 38 blockchain nodes in 21 countries,
• 18 universities participating in a multi-university pilot, in 15 countries.

SmartDegrees has adhered to this European initiative, incorporating the Verifiable Credentials standard in its clients since July 2020, and is participating in the Early Adopters Programme to ensure that SmartDegrees wallet takes full advantage of the value of this ecosystem in favor of the universities and the final users.

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Through a simple form, each student, if they wish so, gives their approval to register their undergraduate degree digitally. In this approval, he also has the possibility of accrediting his educational background at Nebrija University as his TFG, his internships in companies or his professional and language skills.

Nebrija Smart Portfolio

According to Clara Vizoso, professor of the Master’s Degree in ICT for Education and Learning Digital and responsible for the Nebrija Smart Portfolio project, Nebrija University, in its path of innovation and digitization, has decided to put the blockchain system into operation, “an incredibly secure platform, with great potential that allows through smart contracts introduce changes in the way of issuing academic degrees, providing agility, transparency, independence and a new way of transacting with institutions and with students”.

“One of the problems our graduates encounter when applying to a job is that of demonstrating their studies and activities. Thanks to the blockchain technology -which ensures the inviolability of their certificate- and the collaboration agreement signed with the company SmartDegrees, provider of registration services, students will be able to access their certifications in a digital and immediate way, directly through the SmartDegrees mobile application, which facilitates job search, enrollment in new studies and future access to oppositions. Diplomas and certificates go from being a static element on paper or in an electronically signed file, with room for fraud, to being secure digital assets and, therefore, dynamic, under the exclusive control of the graduate”, adds Vizoso.

Nebrija Smart Portfolio is especially useful in this time characterized by the health crisis and the elimination of face-to-face procedures. In addition, it affects the employability of the students themselves by facilitating the recruiter to verify their skills. This proposal will also increase, in a second phase, membership in the Nebrija Alumni Club, the group of alumni of the Nebrija University, which, sponsored by the Antonio de Nebrija Foundation, creates a link between the university and the graduates and postgraduates who have walked the classrooms and hallways of the different campuses.

(Article published by Nebrija University with the same title on its website)

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