This document provides guidance on using open digital badges to recognize learning for vocational education and training (VET) students participating in mobility experiences through Erasmus+. It outlines how open badges work, how to set up a badge system for VET mobilities through a website, and provides examples of badges and tasks students can accomplish to earn them. The badges are meant to raise awareness of non-formal and informal learning gained abroad and support familiarization with key competencies.

1. Open digital badges
for VET mobilities
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Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project
European Badge Alliance

2. Welcome to the badge world!
This a step-by-step guide which will prepare you for using
open digital badges to recognise learning for VET Students
experimenting life abroad thanks to an Erasmus + mobility!
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3. ∎ Open Badges is a worldwide standard to validate and
recognise learning that happens anywhere. They are
visual representation of learning and achievements.
∎ Badges are digital and thus create new possibilities to
manage achievements: store, share and display them
anywhere on the web and include on CV.
∎ Find out more about Open Badges
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ABOUT OPEN BADGES

4. ∎ This system can be used with incoming and outgoing VET
students. It supports VET students experimenting mobility
regardless their nationality, the vocational sector or the
duration of their mobility
∎ It has to be managed by the Mobility Coordinating
Organization. It can be easily integrated in the on-arrival
training, weekly and pre departure mentoring
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5. Major Objective :
Raising students’ awareness of non formal and informal
learning through gamification
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6. Specific Objective :
∎ Support students in getting
familiar with the 8 LLL key
competences EU framework
and in becoming aware of the
learning linked to these skills
that happened while leaving
abroad.
∎ Provide all students involved
in the mobility experience
with a basic knowledge of
two key values:
□ The cooperation
□ The life long self
-improvement
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7. How does it works ?
∎ There are no levels, students
can earn the badges whenever
they are accomplishing with a
minimum of missions
requested.
∎ Participants would be
encouraged to obtain all
badges in order to get the
final certificate and-of a price
∎ There are no compulsory
missions or obligation for
how recognizing it.
∎ It has to be defined
according to the length of
the mobility, the age of
participants and the needs
of the organization
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8. EXAMPLE OF BADGES/
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9. Sense of Initiative and entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION : refers to an individual's ability to turn ideas into
action. It involves creativity, innovation and risk-taking, as well as the ability to
plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives.
TESTIMONIAL : Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
American information technology entrepreneur and inventor.
TASKS to accomplish, type of evidence, assessment:
✦ To do something extra at home/ on the workplace - mentor assessment
✦ To organize a dinner, a football match, a cultural visit with your friends -
peer assessment
✦ Give yourself a task ! - self assessment
With direct link to LLL key competences

10. Linked to extra competences
- up to the coordinating organization
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Walk together or Be Cooperative
DESCRIPTION : attesting the ability of the participants to be active part in
a group/community of people and to collaborate with them, in order to pursue
common objectives and to improve each members' quality of life
TESTIMONIAL : Monique F. Leroux (Aug.11, 1954 in Montreal) is a
Quebecois Canadian cooperative business leader...
TASKS to accomplish, type of evidence, assessment:
✦ Provide an example of cooperation with colleagues - mentor evaluation
✦ Provide an example of cooperation with the group - peer evaluation
✦ Provide an example of cooperation with house friends in cooking,
housekeeping, other - self evaluation

11. HOW TO SET UP BADGES
Create a badge project on www.badgecraft.eu
Import “Badge System for VET mobility’
Achievements” from badge library
Specify badge content
Familiarise with tips for using badges
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12. Create a badge
project
at www.badgecraft.eu
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13. Click to register your account.
Login, if you have one

14. Go to Projects/
Organisations and create
an organisation. If you have
it already, skip this step

15. Create a new project for your activity

16. Import badge
system
from www.badgecraft.eu/en/library
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17. Import full badge system to
your project
Type keywords “vet mobility”

18. Specify badge
content
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19. CONTENT OF BADGES★
∎ Badges have quite generic descriptions, making the
system easily adaptable to any VET mobility project.
∎ However, you might wish to add specific details or tasks
or badges about your VET project, dates, places, etc.
∎ This system is based on a practice where Mentors have
introductory training, mid-term monitoring meetings
and final evaluation. Check if badge criteria are matching
with your organisation practices.
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20. Tips for using
badges
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21. ∎ Introduce Open Badges to all Mentors before the
project starts.
∎ Use a video What is a Badge? Or any other
resource
∎ Invent with them a game, a competition, a
challenging way of presenting it to students !
∎ Try starting a quest with mentors and with
students while presenting it!
SMOOTH START !!
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22. ∎ From time to time remind mentors to remind
students about the game
∎ Keep an eye if there are any evidence verification
requests
∎ Discuss badge earning process with mentors
during your meetings with them and ask them to
collect feedbacks from students
KEEP MENTORS ON BOARD!
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23. HOW TO GENERATE BADGE
BASED CERTIFICATE?
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24. Go to Project’s settings to
enable certificates
Establish partnerships with the third
parties and ask for endorsemenent.
Their names can be entered here. It will
increase the external value of open
badges

25. Users with the permission
can generate badges to
certificates from the
Project’s section “People”

26. Users can access their
certificates from “My
certificates”. They can be
viewed or downloaded as PDF

27. Technical feedback &
support
write to info@badgecraft.eu
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28. References
EUROPEAN BADGE ALLIANCE
Strategic partnership project
for developing badge systems
for European learning mobility
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ERASMUS+
European Union’s programme
which offers funding for
mobility projects in various
fields of education & learning
https://ec.europa.eu/program
mes/erasmus-plus
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does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the
views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble
for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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