The University of Trieste, in order to recognise and enhance the transversal skills acquired by students and graduates, issues Open Badges.

An Open Badge is a digital certificate of the disciplinary knowledge, personal skills (soft skills) and technical competences acquired. It is a photograph that displays something about you: something you know how to do, the activities in which you have participated.

It has a graphic part, the image, and some specifications, the metadata, which allow checking the person to whom it was awarded, the descriptive contents of the badge, its issuer and the methods used to verify it.

They are hosted within a dedicated platform, according to an open source format readable by all applications that read Open Badges (in our case .Bestr CINECA).

It is internationally recognised and can be used in electronic curricula and on social networks (e.g. linkedin) to communicate concisely and credibly, what you have learnt, how and with what results.