CEU Microcredentials: skills that stand out
Students at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University know that, for us, their education is about more than just the classroom. Our undergraduates and postgraduates can develop, certify and showcase key in-demand competencies, including 21st-century skills, making their skills profile highly attractive to employers.
This is possible because we have created a microcredential ecosystem, using verifiable digital badges to certify student skills. The microcredentials awarded can be easily shared on professional networks such as LinkedIn.
These microcredentials help our students stand out in today’s competitive job market and position themselves better to employers, as the skills that they possess are more visibly and credibly presented.
What is a microcredential?
A microcredential certifies the acquisition of a specific competency demonstrated during a learning activity or experience.
Each microcredential details:
At CEU UCH, our microcredentials are issued in the form of verifiable digital badges, which can be shared securely online.
For companies, these microcredentials are a reliable and transparent source of information: in a single click, employers can easily view the corresponding competency and the evidence for its possession.
Benefits for students
How can I get CEU microcredentials?
By participating in learning experiences offered by the University.
The evolution of the CEU Microcredential Ecosystem
- 2015Certificate of Competencies in PDF format
- 2019Digital certification of skills in the form of microcredentials
- 2020Development of the CEU Microcredential Ecosystem
- 2021Competency-based learning pathways for bachelor’s degrees
- 2022Quality assurance system · Peer-issued badges for student clubs
- 2023Work Academy with PwC · Certification of on-the-job learning
- 2025Incorporation of ESCO skills with links to real-time job offers
- 2024Expansion of the ecosystem to postgraduate studies
Types of CEU Microcredentials
Our microcredentials form part of an ecosystem that aims to encompass all the skills and competencies that can be acquired during undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
1. 21st Century Skills
Organized into six broad areas of transferable skills:
2. Learning pathways
Some complex competencies are recognized after the completion of learning pathways, which integrate several microcredentials. These learning pathways are structured to reflect progressive skill development.
For example: Oral Communication learning pathway for Law and Political Science students at the Alfara Campus.
Technology for issuing microcredentials
At the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, we issue microcredentials in the form of verifiable digital badges, using an internationally recognized standard. This allows students to demonstrate their skills clearly, securely and easily on professional social networks.
We issue badges using the Open Badges 3.0 technological standard via the Parchment Digital Badges platform. In this way, each badge includes information on the competency acquired and the evidence for this, and its authenticity and international validity is guaranteed. Most of our microcredentials are issued simultaneously in Spanish, English, and French to reflect their use in international professional environments.
These badges are also aligned with competencies from the ESCO (European Skills, Competencies, Qualifications and Occupations) system, allowing them to be linked to real job offers that require those same skills. In this way, our microcredentials facilitate student integration into the job market from the very beginning of their studies.
Peer-issued badges: student-to-student recognition
Our ecosystem also includes peer-issued badges: these are microcredentials that students themselves can award to their peers for activity within university clubs.
Benefits of peer-issued badges
How are they awarded?
Postgraduate microcredentials
The CEU Cardenal Herrera University offers a wide range of well-established postgraduate programmes geared towards professional development and lifelong learning. These programmes are both academically rigorous and career-focused, promoting the development of advanced skills to meet the needs of the 21st-century job market.
In line with the latest trends in higher education, the University has developed microcredentials that facilitate the acquisition and digital certification of key skills. CEU microcredentials are structured within an ecosystem that ensures quality and compliance with the principles of transparency, authenticity, portability and recognition.
Postgraduate microcredentials:
Microcredentials applicable to all postgraduate programmes.
These microcredentials concern transferable skills and are available to all students on master's degrees, diplomas and specialization programmes: global citizenship, transformative skills, etc.
Microcredentials specific to certain
We currently offer microcredentials for the Clinical Trials, Secondary Education, Bilingual Education, and Architecture postgraduate programmes.
If you are a current student, go to the Intranet to find out more or ask GPT CEU.