Cybersecurity Engineering

Information Technologies

Mechatronics

Socio-technical systems engineering

Virtual reality and smart technologies

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
AIC: Assessment and accreditation of study fields
  • Programme
    Cybersecurity Engineering
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Information Technologies
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Mechatronics
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Socio-technical systems engineering
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Virtual reality and smart technologies
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.