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Qualichain and the ASEP pilot was presented in the context of an interview with Nina Trifonopoulou, Responsible for ASEP QualiChain dissemination, in a special study conducted by Profil Public and OECD. The study titled “Public sector: a world tour of HR innovations” demonstrates the most daring international experiments that are shifting the lines of recruitment in […]

Last week saw the final review of the QualiChain project. Starting in January 2019, QualiChain has targeted the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications. The project pilots have targeted 4 key areas: (i) lifelong learning; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; […]

A series of articles authored by John Domingue and Alexander Mikroyannidis (The Open University, UK) have been published in OpenLearn. OpenLearn is the Open University’s free learning portal, providing free courses and other learning resources that support the Open University’s mission of opening up educational opportunities to more people in more places. OpenLearn currently offers […]

In the context of the QualiChain project, we ask for your collaboration by participating in the Portuguese QualiChain pilot and testing the results obtained. For this, we ask you to perform the following three steps, in order to allow us to understand your opinion before and after using the developed system: Step 1. – Fill the horizontal […]

A brand new video has been produced by the QualiChain project to explain what the project is about and what it offers. This short animated video provides an overview of the project objectives, as well as the main stakeholders targeted by the project. Additionally, the video introduces the project pilots conducted in the 4 key […]

The QualiChain project has been featured in a CORDIS article entitled: A better way to verify educational and employment credentials. The article provides an overview of the project’s objectives and innovations, related to streamlining and simplifying recruitment processes through the use of blockchain, semantics, data analytics, and gamification technologies. The article includes quotes from Dr Panagiotis […]

The 5 pilots of the QualiChain project now have brand new flyers. The flyers provide an overview of each pilot, its objectives, the targeted stakeholders, as well as the main scenario. The flyers are available in the languages of each pilot, i.e., English, Greek and Portuguese. The flyers can be downloaded from here.

The Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP, Hellenic Parliament’s linked third party) and the Hellenic Blockchain Hub (HBH) agreed to build cooperation by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 22, 2021. HBH is a non-profit network of executives from the public and private sector aiming at the dissemination of knowledge on the blockchain […]

QualiChain aims to develop a technical solution that can solve various challenges and facilitate easier processes when it comes to education and the labour market. The QualiChain platform will be validated through 4 distinct pilot use cases, one of which will take place in the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) School of the National Technical […]

Miguel Correia (INESC-ID, Portugal) is going to teach the second edition of a course on Blockchain and Smart Contracts, after the success of the first edition last year. A joint initiative of Técnico+ and Católica-Lisbon, with collaboration from INESC-ID, the course provides a 30-hour introduction to the topic. The first half of the course presents […]