This presentation focus on Open digital badge systems developed in Lithuania and at European level to validate and reocgnise non-formal learning. It explores possible relations between Open Badges and Europass and provides with 6 use-case scenarios for badge integration to Europass CV. These badge developments were made with the co-funding available from UNESCO and EU Erasmus+ For more references please contact: Badgecraft, info@badgecraft.eu Lithuanian Association of Non-formal Education, neformaliai@gmail.com

1. Open Badges and Europass
Laimonas Ragauskas, laimis001@gmail.com
Nerijus Kriauciunas, nerijus@badgecraft.eu

2. About us
www.neformaliai.lt
We unite practitioners of non-formal education in
Lithuania with the mission to exchange good
practices, achieve better recognition of non-formal
education and raise quality of education.
www.badgecraft.eu
We offer a multilingual online platform to manage
any achievements using world-wide standard of
Open digital badges.
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3. What we do
Few examples of
badge projects
_Achievement programme at
UNESCO Associated schools
_Achievement programme for
national volunteering scheme
_Badges systems to recognise
learning during mobility
_other...
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4. Badges at UNESCO associated schools
Objectives for using Open digital badges:
● To promote global citizenship, understanding of global challenges and the ability
to address them among students and teachers of the UNESCO associated
schools and the community;
● To Assess and recognise achievements of students, teachers and school
communities in activities of the Associated Schools Network;
● To promote the development of intercultural and environmental awareness skills
In 2015-16 piloted in 3 schools, will be expanding to all UNESCO schools in Lithuania in
2016-17, will be presented to neighbouring countries.
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6. Badgestocertificate
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7. Badges for volunteering
Trusted Badge Systems (TBS) is a strategic partnership of organisations and
institutions active in youth work and committed to develop and use Open digital badges
to recognise learning and achievements of young people.
TBS partners with employers and seeks to achieve employers endorsement for badge
systems developed during this projects.
Starting from 2018, badge-based certificates issued to national volunteers in
Lithuania will add 0.25 point to admission to higher education
Co-funded through EU Erasmus+ Programme 7

8. Badge system design
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9. Badge system design
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1st level badge -
complete 1 task
2nd level badge -
complete 2 out of 4 tasks
3rd level badge -
complete 3 out of 6 tasks

10. European Badge Alliance
European Badge Alliance (EBA) is a strategic partnership of organisations and
institutions active in learning mobility and committed to the quality and recognition of
learning and achievements using Open digital badges.
EBA aims at using Open digital badges to innovate the recognition, validation and
communication processes of key competences acquired by young learners and staff
in non-formal learning contexts, especially through experiences of learning mobility
abroad.
Co-funded through EU Erasmus+ Programme
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11. Badges for youth exchanges
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On-boarding badge
claimed with code
Special Powers -
bonus badge
Badge quest:
3 out 5 tasks
Unlock 5 other
badges
Badge quest:
4 out 5 tasks
Badge quest:
3 out 5 tasks
Badge quest:
3 out 5 tasks
Badge quest:
3 out 5 tasks
Badge quest:
all tasks or nothing
Badge quest:
3 out 5 tasks

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13. Badges for European Voluntary Service
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3 on-boarding
badges issued via
email/claim code
8 fun badges issued
via email/claim code
24 badges for each key-competence area issued after completing quests
Level 1 badge quest:
1 of 3 tasks
Level 2 badge quest:
3 of 6 tasks
Level 3 badge quest:
4 of 7 tasks

14. Example of EVS badge quest
Badge description:
The first level badge of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship competence.
That means that volunteer managed to do the first and important step into
implementation of their own initiative – exploring the needs of the people they
collaborate with.
Task 1: Set up the meeting with your hosting organization, learn about their activities and find out
the possibilities what kind of initiative you can implement during EVS project and share them with us!
Evidence type: text input, verified by 1 project member
Task 2: This competence is also about flexibility and looking for different and creative ways of doing
things. Do you want to become Flexy –sexy? Than just do something without using any special
resources. You asking us how? Just find your way, do it and share with us your experience!
Evidence type: file upload, verified by 1 project member
Task 3: As it is about initiative and entrepreneurship...create your own task!
Evidence type: verified by 1 mentor
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15. Badges for Youth Worker’s mobility
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On-boarding badge
claimed with code
Special topic badge:
3 of 5 tasks
14 badges for key-competence areas
Personal
competence:
3 of 5 tasks
Professional
competence:
3 of 5 tasks
Unlock 9 other
badges
Badge quest:
4 of 5 tasks

16. Badge systems in progress
_Badges for Mentors of European Voluntary Service
_Badges for school exchanges
_Badges for Vocational Education and Training mobility
_Badges for Erasmus practice placements
_Badges for international facilitators
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17. Open Badges and Europass
_Developed use-case scenarios
_Built prototype to export badges
to Europass CV
_Considering integration
technologies
_Collecting feedback from users
and partner organisations
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https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/

18. Scenario #1
Diego has just taken part in an activity with youth workers
organization X, which is one of the organizations that has
created a profile within the badgecraft platform.
Diego has accessed the Badgecraft.eu platform in order to
get the 3 badges he has earned.
He also wants to add the badges to the digital version of
his Europass CV: he thus uploads the CV and through a
simple interface selects all the 3 badges he has earned to
be embedded in his CV. Thus, anyone receiving it in digital
form will be able to appreciate the metadata they include
about Diego’s experiences and competences.
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19. Scenario #2
Marina has taken part yet again in an activity with a youth workers
organization and accesses the badgecraft platform to earn her new
badges. She already owns 45 badges from youth workers organization
and she has them all within the Badgecraft backpack.
She is also sending applications for a job, to different companies. She
therefore wants to create different versions of her Europass CV with
different badges in each: she knows that too many badges can be
confusing and she’d rather be “to the point” selecting the most proper
badges according to her addressee.
She thus uploads her CV and through a simple interface she explores her
badges set by filters (e.g. kind of competence, or level of achievement) and
manually selects the badges she wants to include. She repeats the
operation three times in order to obtain three different versions of her CV,
fitting the three companies that she means to address.
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20. Scenario #3
Tom has taken part yet again in an activity with a youth workers
organization and accesses the Badgecraft.eu platform to earn his new
badges. He already owns 230 badges earned in various circumstances
and he has them all stored in the badgecraft platform backpack.
He is also sending applications for a job, to different companies. He
therefore wants to create different versions of his Europass CV with
different badges in each: he owns too many badges to want to display
them all, every time.
He therefore explores his set of badges within the backpack and
prepares some collections (sort of “playlist”) of badges according to his
needs (e.g. all the badges about a specific competence; all the badges
with a very high evaluation, etc.). He saves the different playlists in the
system, for future usage.
When he prepares his Europass CV for a specific call or application, he
can select the best playlist and include it in the CV. He can of course
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21. Scenario #4
Mario just completed his VET mobility. During this experience
he learned about Open digital badges. The hosting
organisation was using VET badge system to support his
learning and monitor achievements. Now he wants to
complete his Europass CV and apply for a job position at the
representative of European institutions in his country. The job
application requires to submit the CV in Europass format.
On his Badgecraft account, Mario reviews his earned badges
from VET, selects and groups the ones that match the
expected selection criteria for job candidates. He copies the
URL of his badge collection to the relevant sections of his
Europass CV.
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22. Scenario #5
Nadine was offered opportunity to apply for a position to work for
a European-funded project as a youth worker. Project managers
forwarded to her the Word version of Europass CV requesting
her to highlight experiences of international youth work. She have
relevant experience of being a group leader in youth exchanges
and participants in international youth work trainings. All of these
projects used mobility badges, therefore she can include some of
her earned badge to her Europass CV.
Nadine goes on her Badgecraft account to review and select
relevant badges. She finds it relevant to include the highest level
badges from 5 of her international projects. In her Europass CV
she mentions all of them and pastes the single badge URL as
evidence of experience and achievement.
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23. Scenario #6
Kim is ending her EVS project, where she was collecting EVS badges. From
before, she also has a number of badges from local activities and 2 youth
exchange projects. Her total badge collection reaches close to 150 badges.
Whilst exploring Badgecraft, she finds possibility to fill in and generate CV
following the format of Europass CV. She get’s interested in this and wants to
have her Europass CV.
In the section ‘Generate Europass CV’, that is hosted on Badgecrat, Kim is
invited to either fill in her academic/work/training credentials or import them
from LinkedIn. After this information is filled, she is offered to add any
evidence/referrals to her experience. She can upload copy of diplomas,
certificates or reference letters and then request their approval from issuer of
the document.
In the sections of ‘skills and competences’ she can choose to display
information from any of her earned badges. She reviews them and selects to
display the ones that matters for her. After the rest info is completed, she
generates Europass CV into PDF.
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24. Thank you!
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25. Some useful references
_Learning mobility and non-formal learning in European contexts. Policies, approaches and examples,
http://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/learning-mobility-and-non-formal-learning
_European Badge Alliance, http://www.ebawebsite.net
_Mozilla Open Badges, https://www.openbadges.org
_Badgecraft, https://www.badgecraft.eu
_European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus
_Europass, https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu
_Youthpass, https://www.youthpass.eu/
_Key-competences for Lifelong Learning, http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/school/competences_en.htm
_Badge images for youth exchanges, http://www.freepick.com 25