For most of our courses, we no longer only issue paper certificates to successful candidates, but also digital certificates, in line with last year’s growing international practice in education.
These badges, similarly to the scouts badges, are designed to provide a uniform and easily accessible way of certifying skills that, due to the limited contact hours, cannot be covered by formal education, and also to allow employees to prove, for example the attendance of further training and the relevant knowledge acquired in a previous job.
These digital certificates are sent to our students in the form of a digital open badge as an email attachment. The attachment is a (picture) file with a .png extension, which contains all the relevant elements of the certificate (who received it, for what performance, when, etc.) in an encrypted, unbreakable format.