Category Archives: Events

The IEEE Engineering Day 2020 will take place on WebEx on November 27, between 2pm and 6pm (Portugal time, GMT). QualiChain will be represented by Professor Miguel Pupo Correia (INESC-ID, Portugal), who will deliver the special session: “Blockchain Cross-Borders: The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure”. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology are overcoming a period of exploration […]

The Open Education Global 2020 conference took place online on November 16-20. The Open Education Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators and students to discuss and explore how open education advances educational practices around the world. This year’s conference was held online, featuring […]

Rafael Belchior (INESC-ID, Portugal) participated in the PhD Open Days that took place on October 26-28, 2020 at Técnico Lisboa. This event offers a major opportunity for more than one thousand Ph.D. students to socialise and share their research with the rest of the academic community, companies, and alumni. The work presented by Rafael was […]

The 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (iCERI 2020) aims to promote the cooperation and exchange of educational experiences among institutions all over the world and showcase the latest research activities around education. QualiChain, having participated in the conference in the previous year will leverage the stage of iCERI to showcase the […]

The 14th International Conference on Education, Curriculum, Instructional and Educational Technology (ICECIET 2020) took place on September 16-17 virtually. This is an annual conference that aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Education, Curriculum, Instructional and Educational Technology. […]

The 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2020) took place online on September 23-25. This interdisciplinary conference is focused on the exchange of relevant trends and research results, as well as the presentation of practical experiences in Interactive Collaborative Learning and Engineering Pedagogy. Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) delivered a hands-on workshop entitled “Decentralising Education […]

QualiChain attended the virtual European Blockchain Convention on September 21-22. The European Blockchain Convention is the leading Blockchain Conference for Business in Europe, attracting tech leaders, regulators, investors, corporations, developers and entrepreneurs from the Blockchain industry. The mission of this event is to provide world-class content in collaboration with the brightest minds in the space, […]

Diogo Serranito, Andre Vasconcelos, Sergio Guerreiro and Miguel Correia (INESC-ID, Portugal) presented the QualiChain project and their paper Blockchain Ecosystem for Verifiable Qualifications at the 2nd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2020), which was held online on September 28-30, 2020. The authors discussed the ways that their proposal […]

The first virtual Summer Summit of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) took place on August 26-27, 2020. The event was a great success, with over 300 participants joining from 25 countries. The event’s theme was exploring Learning Technology in a time of crisis, care and complexity. Participants explored the themes of crisis, care and […]

On July 13th 2020, QualiChain was presented to the W3C Credentials Community Group by representatives from the Open University. John Domingue, Allan Third, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Niaz Chowdhury and Mano Ramachandran joined a conference call between all members of the W3C group and presented their latest work on Verifiable Credentials and Blockchains. In particular, Alexander Mikroyannidis […]