Events

Please join us at our Digital Credentials Regulars get-together at our virtual pub on Wednesday, September 21st from 4:00-5:00 p.m. CEST.

Dr Julie Reddy will be spotlighting the South African approach to digital credentialing and share her methodology and recommendations for the recognition of international qualifications and part-qualifications in her role as CEO of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).

Julie is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). She has held senior management positions in SAQA since October 2012.  Prior to that, she held senior management and leadership positions for over 30 years in the international and South African educational and skills development sectors, including as the founding CEO of the Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority and CEO of the Sector Education and Training Authority for Secondary Agriculture, and as Country Director/Chief of Party of the USA based international Advancing Basic Education ald Literacy Project.  Dr Reddy is currently a member of the three South African Quality Councils: the Council on Higher; the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations; and Umalusi, the QC for General and Further Education and Training.  She is also a member of the National Skills Authority and the Human Resources Development Council. Internationally, Dr Reddy is a member on the GDN Board of Directors and a UNESCO-UIL appointed International Juror for its Learning Cities Award. Her academic qualifications include both a MSc as a Fulbright Scholar, and a PhD from Cornell University in the USA.

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de.

Moving Target Digitalisation 2022: Increasing the Impact of Internationalisation in Higher Education

Dear Digital Credentials Community,

For the second day in a row, we would like to share some news with you, this time on our own behalf. The Call for Participation of our joint conference "Moving Target Digitalisation 2022" is now open for contributions. This year’s Conference has a dedicated Digital Credentials and Trust Networks track organised by DiBiHo. We would be pleased if you would contribute to the conference programme and spread the call.

From November 30^th to December 2^nd, 2022, the #movingtarget2022 conference will take place in Berlin and online, focusing on the
impact of digitalisation and new technologies on the internationalisation of higher education.

The Call for Participation is now open! You can submit your contribution until August 7^th, 2022.

You can find the CfP and the web form here: Call for Participation

Digitalisation is fundamentally changing international higher education. Collaboration across borders and new forms of mobility offer a
multitude of potentials in a globally networked world.
The DAAD conference "Moving Target Digitalisation" will address key issues in this context. With its focus on the latest developments in the internationalisation of higher education, it offers space for policy dialogue and facilitates exchange with expert communities in order to examine neighbouring initiatives and projects at home and abroad and discuss international cooperation and integration
opportunities.

The thematic-modular concept of the conference is oriented along the entire "student journey" and takes up the discussion on the
effects of digitalisation on the internationalisation of higher education and on academic exchange in four thematic tracks:

• Linking Digital Education Services – organised by BIRD and Digital Campus
• Virtual Exchange and Blended Mobility - organised by  the Community Team of Digital Programmes (IMKD, IP Digital, IVAC)
• European Strategies for Digital Education - organised by OpenU
• Digital Credentials and Trust Networks - organised by  DiBiHo

We are looking forward to (re-)thinking global exchange together with you!

Further information

Call for Participation – Website: Moving Target Digitalisation 2022 - DAAD  – Contact: movingtarget@daad.de

Please join us at our next Digital Credentials Regulars get-together with Drummond Reed at our virtual pub “The Self-Sovereign” on June 7th from 5 - 6 p.m. CEST.

Drummond will be sharing his analysis on the updated EU Digital Identity Architecture and Reference framework: eIDAS 2.0, offering his perspective on problems and opportunities as well as implications for future EU-US cooperation. We look forward to chatting with Drummond about his transformative work on self-sovereign identity and trust and are curious to hear his opinion on current discussions around unique and persistent identifiers, enhanced wallets, trust architectures and the role of the private sector in the field of digital identity.

Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Officer. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years. From 2005-2015 he was co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee, a semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Drummond also served as Executive Director for two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, and as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor. 

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de

Please join us at our Digital Credentials Regulars get-together at our virtual pub on Tuesday, May 17th from 5:00-6:00 p.m. CEST.

Prof. Dr. Carlos Delgado Kloos will be spotlighting current developments in the field of digital credentials in Spain. CertiDigital is a new initiative of the UniDigital Plan of the Ministry of Universities to deploy a digital certification service for the Spanish university system. What was the rationale for its formation at this point in time? Which challenges are to be met and which opportunities for co-operation exist?

Carlos Delgado Kloos received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München and in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is Full Professor of Telematics Engineering at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is the Director of the GAST research group, Director of the UNESCO Chair on “Scalable Digital Education for All”, and Vice President for Strategy and Digital Education. He is also the Coordinator of the eMadrid research network on Educational Technology in the Region of Madrid. He is Senior Member of IEEE. He has been the Manager of ICT research projects at the Spanish Ministry and has carried out research stays at several universities such as Harvard, MIT, Munich, and Passau.

His main research interests are in Educational Technology. He has been involved in a large number of projects with European, bilateral, national, and regional funding. He has published around 500 articles in national and international conferences and journals and has further written a book and co-edited over a dozen. He has coordinated several MOOCs (on edX and MiríadaX) and is presently promoting the adoption of digital micro-credentials in Spain through the project CertiDigital.

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Digital Credentials Regulars get-together at our virtual pub on Thursday, April 21st from 5-6 p.m. CEST. 

Dr. Ewa Michałkiewicz-Kądziela will be presenting findings from her recently published paper “Legal boundaries of digital identity creation”. We will have an hour’s time to chat about defining human identity in the digital world, the necessary legal tools for its implementation and the relationship between digital and real identity. What is the standard-setting role of the law in protecting the individual’s fundamental right to identity in the digital age? How does the digital environment affect human identity creation in a legal sense? 

Ewa Michałkiewicz-Kądziela is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University Szczecin, Poland; she obtained a doctorate in law in 2019 after defending her doctoral dissertation entitled "The right to human identity in Polish and international law". 

Her main area of research is human rights and their protection in the system of national, EU and international law. Among her research interests, a special place is occupied by the issues of human identity and the rights associated with it, as well as contemporary threats to human rights resulting from social, economic and technological changes. She conducts didactic classes in the following fields: Law, Administration, Medical Law, Law of Uniformed Services, where she performs, inter alia, such subjects as: constitutional law, European Union law, protection of human rights, states of emergency, sources of law, public interest ombudsmen in health protection.

She is the Rector's Plenipotentiary for International Cooperation and Coordinator of the Faculty Team for International Cooperation, a Member of the Dean's Council at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University Szczecin and a Member of the Teams for Education Quality, Course Development and Postgraduate Development.

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de.
 

Join us at this month’s Digital Credentials Regulars at our virtual pub on March 16th from 4:30-5:30 p.m. CET.

Perrine de Coëtlogon will be sharing her thoughts on data exchange between countries reporting on the diploma and notarisation use case of the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI) and achievements within advanced authentication to date. The recently published White Paper “Blockchain Technologies for the Public Sector” examines various use cases ranging from farming, notarisation and verifiable diplomas and considers possible practical uses of blockchain to improve general public service. We look forward to Perrine’s past experience on issuing over 20.000 verifiable credentials at the University of Lille, her views on the distribution of power in a centralised administration and what this means from a technological perspective as well as opening up the debate to topics such as migration. 

Perrine de Coëtlogon is a civil servant of the University of Lille, France, at the Directorate for Pedagogical Innovation where she works in particular for Blockchain & Open Education. It was in 2017 that Perrine began hosting a national working group on Blockchain technologies in an educational context. With her colleagues and thanks to the work done by international networks, she has led her university’s digital transformation of the way the university issues and students share their “diploma” with 20 000 verifiable credentials issued in the blockchain Avalanche in 2021. In 2022, the objective is to issue in the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI) and to offer any student the possibility to open their first wallet. She is also part of the DIAL4U, an Erasmus + project aiming to recognise the competences in teaching and learning foreign languages with open badges.

After French-German law studies, Perrine practised 7 years as a lawyer in Merger & Acquisitions at the Paris Bar. She then moved to Lille with her family in 2009 and became the General Secretary of the French Virtual University for Health and Sport Sciences. From 2015 to 2018, she was the “Digital Expert for Higher Education, Europe and International” at the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research, part of the European Working Group for Digital Skills and Competences. Passionate about Open Education and Open Educational Resources, she was elected member of the board of Open Education Global in 2020, where she launched Open Education Global Francophone. Perrine represents the French government in the European Blockchain Partnership (policy group).

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de.

Please join us at our Digital Credentials Regulars get-together at our virtual pub “The Self-Sovereign” on February 16th from 5:00-6:00 p.m. CET.

We will be chatting with Joanne Duklas about her extensive experience in the digital credentials field,  gained not only as a registrar, but also during her involvement as executive lead in the creation of the MyCreds / Mes Certifs National Network and credential wallet. This national document exchange highway and credential wallet for learners is owned by the Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) and delivers digitised badges, micro-credentials, documents, transcripts and diplomas on behalf of Canadian colleges and universities. Joanne will be offering her view on running technology solutions and the challenges involved with a view to international data exchange and regulatory contexts.

Joanne Duklas is an award-winning researcher and consultant in higher education with several years experience in Canadian post-secondary education. Her career includes serving in various senior leadership roles within the post-secondary sector on stakeholder boards and at one of Canada’s largest institutions as a registrar and assistant vice president. Her scholarship research interests focus on student success and mobility.

A former president of the national registrars’ association (ARUCC, 2012), Joanne actively supports post-secondary organizations and government by leading large-scale projects, evidenced-based research, and cross-sector consultations to advance best practice and student success. She provides her institutional clients with expertise in a broad range of areas including pathway development, strategic and organizational reviews, service improvements, and policy development and standards creation.

Joanne has led and authored several national studies including creating Canada’s first national transcript and transfer guide and peer-reviewed national studies including International Transfer Credit Practices (2019) and Micro-Credentials: Trends in Credit Transfer and Credentialing (2020).

In her downtime, Joanne is a fine artist and exhibits her work in juried art shows when she’s not enjoying work or family. Visit her website to see more!

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de

Do join us at our third Digital Credentials Regulars get-together at our virtual pub “The Self-Sovereign” on December 15th from 5:00-6:00 p.m. CET.

Paul den Hertog  will be spotlighting the Netherlands and current developments in the field of digital credentials. The Dutch Acceleration Plan, and a pilot on micro-credentialing in Dutch HE driven by central databases and corresponding networks of educational institutions have made great advances in the field. Which challenges have been met or are yet to come and which findings can be transferred to the situation in other countries?

Paul den Hertog has worked for over 20 years at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as an innovator and policy advisor. In these roles he was responsible for managing various innovation projects such as a campus wide web lecture service, ePortfolio and DLE-vision, -procurement and -implementation. Over the last three years Paul has worked as a policy advisor for the Board, and as captain of the Dutch Acceleration Plan, working on flexible education and lifelong learning. Recently Paul accepted a new role as advisor at SURF, the national cooperation for technology in public HE.

The event will take place in English. It will also be possible to have individual conversations in smaller groups at the bar or piano lounge.

Make sure to register now for a festive surprise. If you are interested in attending, please let us know at dibiho@daad.de