QualiChain

The objective of the project is to transform and revolutionise the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with those of private education, the labour market, policy making, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments by disrupting the way accredited educational titles and other qualifications are archived, managed, shared and verified, taking advantage of the blockchain, semantics, data analytics and gamification technologies. QualiChain will deliver an open source solution, comprising of stand-alone components and an integrated environment to facilitate its adoption by the different stakeholders according to their needs.The architecture and approach are designated to provide at the end of the project a platform that will comply for TRL7 (system prototype demonstration in operational environment) and will be exploitable right after the completion of the project. Overall, QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments. The proposed solution will be piloted through four representative scenarios, including: (i) cross-university degree equivalence verification; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services.