ESCO and Open Badges

What is ESCO?

From their own website :

"ESCO is the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. ESCO is an important deliverable to support the Europe 2020 strategy and the New Skills Agenda for Europe."

In short and a less verbose language, this mean that ESCO is a list of skills and occupation and the links between those.

Our project concentrated on the skills within that standard and how to use them to build open badges using the API for ESCO.

For more information on the implementation, check the code.

What is Open Badges?

Open Badge is an open standard for badges, created by Mozilla.

Fundamentally, it's a standard that keep data of the issuer and the receiver alongside data on the badge itself. Within the badge class is a base64 representation of an image representing the badge, metadata on the badge (description, name, ...) and information about the issuer.

Sources:

https://ec.europa.eu/esco/portal/escopedia/European_Skills%252C_Competences%252C_Qualifications_and_Occupations_%2528ESCO%2529 https://www.imsglobal.org/sites/default/files/Badges/OBv2p0/ http://esp-api-dev-0.10.0.cogni.zone/doc/esco_api_doc.html