2025 Micro-credentials Masterclass
MCMC 2025 wrapped up in Zagreb at Algebra University on 19-20 March 2025.
It brought together a community of people working on personalised learning and career pathways; education practitioners, policymakers, stakeholders, and experts.
Building on past success, the event covered six key themes:
- Recognition and mobility
- Innovation (AI impacts)
- Social inclusion
- Industry partnerships
- Quality assurance
- Interoperability
Experts from North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia shared what works and what doesn’t.
We couldn’t have done it without our main sponsor Velocert, our host Algebra Bernays University, and our collaborator QualityLink.
2023 International Micro-credentials Summit
The second edition of the Masterclass was held as a five-day Summit and featured:
With the support of 110 participants representing 70 organisations, a call to action for micro-credentials in Europe was drafted.
Thanks to the support of the following organisations, the 2023 Micro-Credentials Masterclass boasted a speaker line-up of 28 renowned experts, and practices from across the world:
The 2023 programme of speakers was developed together with an international committee of experts which comprised of Florian Rampelt, Mark Brown, Elena Trepule, Raimund Hudak, Chiara Finocchietti, Lena Patterson, Alessandra Antonaci, Mitchell Peters, Anthony Camilleri and Martina Darmanin.
An EDEH Community Workshop explored and identified:
- The value of micro-credentials
- Insights from across education sectors
- Transferable good practices
Researchers and practitioners forming part of EDEN Digital Learning Europe and the Micro-Credentials Exchange project came together to develop their ideas within their ongoing work-streams.
The event, hosted by the Open University of Catalonia, spotlighted the Spanish national context in connection with the European approach to micro-credentials for lifelong learning and employability.
2019 Digital Micro-credentials Masterclass
The event brought experts for a series of thematic sessions, investigating the potential of micro-credentials to transform the European Higher Education landscape, from the perspectives of policy, technology, pedagogy and institutional strategy.
Among other highly influential outputs of the MicroHE project include the MicroHE metadata standard, which has become an important building block of the new Europass data model; Credentify, the first European issuer of blockchain-secured stackable ECTS credentials; as well as a Delphi survey to forecast the potential impacts of continued modularisation on HE.
