Project description
Smarter hiring in education, public sector
Verifying an applicant’s education is crucial in the hiring process. Unfortunately, for recruiters, the task of verifying applicants’ credentials can be time-consuming and troublesome due to the use of traditional procedures, which vary across countries and institutions. To streamline and simplify this process, the EU-funded QualiChain project aims to create a decentralised platform for qualifications verification and management. This platform combines blockchain technology, data analytics, semantics, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence. It will revolutionise the evaluation of educational titles and other qualifications. The QualiChain project will conduct pilots to verify cross-university degree equivalence, facilitate smart curriculum design, assist in staffing for the public sector, and provide HR consultancy and competency management services.
Objective
QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments. The project focuses more specifically on the assessment of the implications (technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural) as well as the impact - in terms of benefits and risks - of the prescribed solution’s utilisation, whose disruptive potential lies both in the exploitation of the innovative features of the aforementioned individual technologies, as well as in their unique combination in a new territory for the provision of a set of baseline services (Awards’/ Qualifications’ Archiving; Awards’/ Qualifications’ Verification; Qualifications’ Portfolio Management) and a number of value-adding services (Career Counselling and Intelligent Profiling and Competency Management including Recruitment; Competencies’ Evaluation and Development; Consulting and Decision Support). The proposed solution will be piloted through four representative scenarios, including: (i) cross-university degree equivalence verification; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- social sciencespolitical sciencespublic administrationbureaucracy
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence
Keywords
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.6.2.2. - Explore new forms of innovation, with special emphasis on social innovation and creativity and understanding how all forms of innovation are developed, succeed or fail
Call for proposal
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018-2019-2020
See other projects for this callSub call
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
157 80 ATHINA
Greece