Lifelong Digital Learning and Education: promoting flexibility, inclusion, critical thinking and international exchange

This contribution aims to illustrate how the University of Turin is progressively creating an 'ecosystem' for digital credentials that is coherent and complementary to traditional certifications, aiming to enhance the value of skills acquired in the academic field and to align them with the current job market reality and employer needs. The digital credentials creation and assignment service at the University of Turin was introduced experimentally at the end of 2016, within a training project aimed at technical-administrative staff, culminating in the assignment of OBs for the recognition of acquired competencies. Since this experimental phase, the University has relied on the Bestr platform for publishing OBs, the first Italian platform for issuing and managing digital credentials.