The objective of the workshop is to highlight the need for a pan European level skill recognition for Big Data that stimulates mobility and fulfils the definition of overarching Learning Objectives & Overarching Learning Impacts. It is also meant to get feedback on the formats that are being prepared namely, usage of Badges, Label and EIT Label for professionals.

1. EIT Label for Professionals
BDVe Workshop on Big Data Skills Accreditation
September 17, 2020
Muluneh OLI (EIT Digital)

2. Context
1. In line with the EIT Label for Academics
▪ With the introduction of its own concepts and principles
▪ With its own processes
▪ Other artifacts
2. With the assumption that most of the certification candidates are
experienced and graduates
3. To assess the gap between achieved and intended learning objectives
o Learning activities and outcomes to be compared
4. Introduction of Quality indicators against assessment fields

3. Underlying concepts & principles
➢Overarching learning outcomes
➢Creativity
➢Value judgement and sustainability competences
➢Innovation skills to create new improved solutions
➢Intellectual transforming skills capable to take research results to solve
challenging practical problems
➢Understanding of principles achieved through the acquisition of :
➢Knowledge
➢Experience
➢Ethics

4. Underlying concepts & principles
➢Overarching learning impacts
❑ Stay atop of the latest developments with latest and greatest skills that
would allow the business to increase revenue
❑ Improving skill sets that enable the reduction of costs
❑ Increase performance at work and acquire transferable skills that allow the
increment of volume of activity
❑ Outlet for creativity & ignite passion for long term solutions with positive
social impact to fulfill social responsibility
➢Based on a learning triangle through the following aspects:
➢Technical
➢Leadership
➢Strategic

5. Underlying concepts & principles
➢Hands on intensive training with appropriate use cases and
simulating different scenario that provides experience
➢Competence based - know what to do
➢Lean and Agile – know the optimal way
➢Solution focused - is a goal-directed approach that highlights the importance
of searching for solutions
➢Ethical aspect to provide a good judgement capability in terms of
providing solutions and planning

6. Underlying Concepts
D – data
I – information
K – knowledge
W – wisdom
S – strategy
T – Technical
L – leadership
E – ethics
E – experience
B – benefit->impact
O – output
O - outcome

7. Processes
❑All the different parts of the processes supported by well defined
templates and sub processes

8. Quality assurance
❑ Quality indicators
❑ Indicator 1 – Compulsory requirements
❑ Indicator 2 – Aligned teaching and EIT overarching learning outcomes
❑ Indicator 3 – Aligned teaching and EIT overarching learning impacts
❑ Indicator 4 – EIT learning environment and facilities
❑ Indicator 5 – Results
❑ Indicator 6 – Stakeholder experiences

9. Quality assurance
❑Assessment fields
❑ Mobility, application, selection and admission of students
❑ Rules, regulations and grading
❑ Quantification and qualification of the impacts
❑ Hands-on learning-by-doing, international and cross-organizational mobility
❑ Leadership competency, ALO from the technical view, KICs view on tools,
reports on educational activities
❑ Achieved impacts of EIT Label issuer, receiver and the ultimate beneficiary

10. Award
Conditions under which Course providing institutions will be awarded
the EIT Label for professionals accreditation for a fixed period of time:
❑ They reply to a call for institutional candidates that want to deliver EIT Label
based professional courses
❑ They can provide hands on training to give them experience in a given specific
field
❑ They can teach ethical aspects of the subject.
❑ They base their teaching on the learning triangles for professionals, i.e.
Technical, Leadership and Strategic foundations
❑ They assure the Objectives of the Learning Impacts will be reached
❑ They satisfy all the quality indicators
❑ The assessment of their candidacy is deemed positive to receive an EIT label for
professionals by a committee of experts

11. Assessment
Institutions to acquire EIT Label accreditations are assessed against and:
❑ They introduce a satisfactory self-assessment report according to given guidelines
❑ The given quality indicators against the assessment fields provide satisfactory results
❑ EIT pool of experts review the application and the self assessment report
❑ Assessment is completed both by the report of the evaluation team and the EIT
labelling committee as will be specified in the EIT Label for professionals

12. Renewal
Institutions to renew the EIT Label:
❑ Self-assessment report of the institution is the starting point of the renewal
procedure
❑ Should be re-assessed against the previously set 6 quality indicators
❑ The assessment covers the mandatory, the learning outcomes and impacts and
the after-training indicators
❑ Follow the detailed EIT internal processes for the renewal

13. Renewal for professionals
Professionals to renew the EIT Label need to:
❑ Show that they have been active in the field of accreditation
❑ Collect a number of CEUs/PDUs/badges as required by the renewal criteria in the
period of activity
❑ Prove that the CEUs/PDUs/badges reflect the required knowledge type learning
triangle
❑ Prove that the overarching impacts are achieved

14. What next
✓ Select a piloting profile with the required tasks, knowledge and skills
✓ Develop content
✓ Define candidate requirements
✓ Select test delivery platform
✓ Decide on exam format
✓ Create database of test questions and scenario