EBSI’s success stories

Bachelor/Master Degree

A student applies for a PhD with a bachelor/master degree from a foreign country

The project

Each year, hundreds-of-thousands of European citizens go abroad to another European country to continue their studies. In order to simplify the process behind issuing and verifying the credibility of all these Bachelor, Master and PhD verifiable credentials, national projects from these three countries came together.

These projects are:

The EBSI4RO Connecting Romania through Blockchain project from Romania in which the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) is working with the Politehnica University of Timisoara;
The ELEDGER Hellenic Distributed Ledger Technology Infrastructure project from Greece with the GRNET under the auspices of the Ministry of Digital Governance as one of the partners who collaborated together with the University of Athens as the issuer of education credentials.
The fr.EBSI Ready-to-use Academic Credentials on EBSI project from France in which the University of Lille has the project lead and that has the Ministry of Education of France as their Trusted Accreditation Organisation.

This simplification will be achieved by applying the EBSI Use Cases, a self-sovereign identity and diploma management in a cross-border scenario.

As a consequence, the administrative processes will be simplified, trust will be enhanced and efficiency will be increased.

So now, let us all support these thousands of European students in building their learning journey by using the EBSI capabilities.

Diploma use case
Participating countries:
National projects:
National authority (Issuers of VID):
Universities (Issuers of educational credentials):
Wallet provider:
Infrastructure:

The scenario

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Application for a bachelor’s degree, access to the student email account and Issuer Portal

Anca, a Romanian student, applies for a Bachelor’s degree from the Politehnica University of Timisoara and receives her student email account. She signs into the Politehnica University of Timisoara Issuer Portal using her student credentials.

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Student ID, Verifiable Attestation and Bachelor’s Diploma

The university issues a student ID (Verifiable Attestation) and Anca becomes an official student of the Politehnica University of Timisoara and gets her Bachelor Diploma.

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Application for Master’s programme with the Bachelor Diploma

Anca applies for a Master Programme at the University of Athens. She requests the Politehnica University of Timisoara to issue her Bachelor Diploma (Verifiable-Diploma).

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Verification of the Student ID and Bachelor’s Diploma

The University of Athens verifies the Student ID and Bachelor Diploma and Anca enrolls for her Master degree.

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Issuance of Verifiable-Diploma and application for a PhD degree

After achieving her Master degree, Anca applies for a PhD degree at the University of Lille in France. She requests the University of Athens to issue her Master Diploma (Verifiable-Diploma). The University of Lille verifies it and Anca enrolls for a PhD degree.

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