UNIVERSITY MICROCREDENTIALS FOR PROFESSIONALS

What are microcredentials?

Microcredentials are official certifications that recognize the acquisition of skills through very specific and short-term training.

They are designed to be flexible, modular and adaptable to the needs of professionals, allowing accumulation and combination to create personalized training itineraries. The main recipients are active professionals. The European Union promotes microcredentials to:

• Promote lifelong learning.
• Improve employability and labor mobility within the European space.
• Facilitate the retraining and updating of skills.
• Promote the digital and green transition.

These initiatives are part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, financed by the European Union's Next Generation funds (until June 2026).

Benefits for professionals (and citizens)

• Flexibility: Training adapted to the availability of professionals, with face-to-face, virtual or hybrid modalities.
• Wide access at: A previous university degree is not always required.
• Recognized certification: Qualifications issued by universities and registered in digital formats such as Europass, facilitating their portability and recognition at the European level.
• Subsidies: Up to 70% of the cost of tuition may be subsidized for people between 25 and 64 years old if they are citizens of the European Union.

Benefits for companies

• Tailor-made training: Possibility of co-designing microcredentials with universities to adapt them to the specific needs of the sector.
• Easy verification: Companies can verify the authenticity of microcredentials through services provided by the European Commission.
• Talent development: They facilitate the identification and promotion of internal talent, as well as the recruitment of professionals with specific skills.

How to verify microcredentials?

Microcredentials issued by universities are registered in digital formats such as Europass, provided by the European Commission. This allows companies to easily verify the authenticity and integrity of the certifications, at no additional cost.

Future perspective.

The microcredential proposal will be integrated into a training ecosystem for active professionals where companies will be key in defining the topics to be covered. This system will ultimately simplify and facilitate integration into European labor mobility.

For more information, a talk is scheduled at the headquarters of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona on February 5 at 6 p.m.

You can register HERE