Awero vs European Digital Credentials for Learning

Awero provides digital tools for competence development, assessment, and recognition, along with training and consultancy. Its Cities of Learning platform helps learners and organisations map learning opportunities, combine local and digital activities into playlists, and issue or earn Open Badges. Activities can use skills from the multilingual ESCO database. Assessment can include self-assessment, peer review, or organiser assessment, while organisers can analyse data about their activities, playlists, and badges.

The Badge Wallet app lets learners earn, store, manage, and share badges, with downloads linked for Android and iOS. Personal accounts can sign in with a password, Facebook, or Google; the chosen method cannot later be changed. Awero serves not-for-profit organisations, public institutions, and businesses. Open Access costs nothing for personal and organisation accounts, and voluntary donations are welcome. Custom-look setup is listed at €1,500, paid once with Partner Access or €1,750, paid once with Standard Access. Awero says platform functions use default settings and cannot be tailored on demand, and temporary downtime or unexpected behaviour may occur.

European Digital Credentials for Learning provides tools for organisations to create, issue, view, store, share, and verify credentials for degrees, diplomas, micro-credentials, participation certificates, and other learning records. The Online Credential Builder makes reusable templates; the EDC Issuer can issue from those templates or take existing JSON credentials for sealing and delivery. Credentials may be emailed or sent to Europass and other EDC-compliant wallets, and holders can share links when their wallet supports them. The viewer checks matters including format, seal, owner, revocation, accreditation, and validity. Credentials need an advanced or qualified electronic seal, and the viewer checks its integrity. The infrastructure says it does not store the personal information layer added for recipients. It issues JSON-LD credentials aligned with W3C Verifiable Credential v1.1 and uses the European Learning Model. The web tools require free NexU software, which runs only on Windows. Issuer, Viewer, and Wallet components are open-source software for integration into an organisation’s own infrastructure. The infrastructure is free; the listed platforms are web and Windows.