Conveners
Rethinking Federations: 2C
- Mihály Héder (SZTAKI)
Emerging standards - Verifiable Credentials, Open Badges 3.0, and the European Learning Model - combined with the EU Digital Identity Wallet are reshaping how learners own and share credentials. SURF, the Dutch NREN, is piloting this future through the Eduwallet project: a national testing ground integrating eduID, Edubadges, and wallet infrastructure across real education and labour-market...
Switch was among the first NRENs to establish a national identity federation as a production service in 2005. A first strategic realignment resulted in the launch of Switch edu-ID in 2015 to better support life-long learning and to increase synergies. Since then, we left the service architecture largely untouched – while the world around us continued to transform. Switch started the...
CertiDigital is a university-led shared credential service, built by 23 Spanish universities and deployed as a national platform on RedIRIS, the Spanish academic and research network.
The initiative delivers a reusable technical infrastructure that any university in the Spanish university system can use to issue digital certificates based on the European Learning Model, with two...
