Open Badge Factory | Esco

ESCOpedia

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Competence-based job matching

Conference "ESCO: Connecting people and jobs"

Continuous improvement process

Development of ESCO

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

ESCO data formats

ESCO for big data analyses

ESCO governance

ESCO in statistics

ESCO Maintenance Committee

ESCO mapping platform

ESCO Member States Working Group

ESCO occupations mapping pilot

ESCO skills mapping pilot

EU Skills Profile for Third Country Nationals

European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp)

European e-Competence Framework (e-CF)

European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

Functional analysis

House of Skills

How can ESCO be used in practice?

International Standard Classification of Education: Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F)

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)

Janzz.technology

Joint pilot project with LinkedIn

KEHA Center (Public Employment Service of Finland)

Learning outcomes

Linked Open Data

Linking learning outcomes of qualifications with ESCO skills

List of sectors of economic activities for the development of ESCO v1

Mapping to ESCO

Non-preferred term

Occupations pillar

Open Badge Factory

OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS)

Peers Solutions

Piloting and testing

Qualifications dataset register (QDR)

Qualifications Metadata Schema

Qualifications pillar

Reference Groups

Regulated professions

Searching for learning opportunities

Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS)

Skill contextualisation

Skill reusability level

Technical support

Terminological guidelines

The Adecco Group

Three pillar structure of ESCO

Training sessions

Transversal knowledge, skills and competences

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

Open Badge Factory

About Open Badge Factory

Open Badge Factory is an organisation that offers eLearning and Human resources services. They work in French, English and Finish and their customers are mainly organisations seeking to recognise skills and competences. Some of Open Badge Factory’s customers have started to align their badges with ESCO.

Key services

Their key services are the following:

Online platform for creating, issuing and managing digital credentials (aligning with the open badge standard)

Open Badge Passport - A free social platform where badge earners can receive and share their badges

Benefits of ESCO

In Open Badge Factory, badge creators can browse ESCO and add skills/competences and activities from ESCO to their badge alignment fields. ESCO gives the possibility to better connect badges and employability.

Open Badge Passport allows customers to search for badges based on the ESCO classification.

Links

Open Badge Factory