On the way to a digital Swiss education passport

The continuing education market in Switzerland is dynamic and diverse. However, non-formal education programmes are difficult to navigate, and the learning outcomes they deliver are often hard for employers, educational organisations and participants to assess. This lack of transparency prevents smaller learning units from being visible and comparable, and undermines confidence in their value.

With a digital education passport (available as an app and desktop application), participants in continuing education in Switzerland would be able to centrally collect, store and present their continuing education certificates. Such a pass would promote the visibility, transparency and, consequently, the value of non-formal education in Switzerland. The certificates transferred to the education pass and the courses they represent could meet a common standard and would thus be easier to compare with one another, which would make learning achievements transparent and strengthen the confidence of various stakeholders, such as employers, educational organisations and learners, in them.

The learning passport would enable participants in continuing education to store certificates obtained through non-formal learning in a central digital portfolio and use them for personal or professional purposes. This would provide them with visible recognition even for smaller learning modules.

Employers would benefit from the improved traceability and comparability of continuing education content, which in turn could facilitate recruitment and skills management.

Partners in this project are: Agir-formation, OrTra Intendance Genève, Lernwerkstatt Olten, Academia Education, EB Zurich, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), the ECAP Foundation, the Swiss Academy of Fitness & Sports (SAFS), the Swiss Commercial Association (kfmv), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian-speaking Switzerland (SUPSI) and Miduca. The project is co-funded by SERI (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation).

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