QualityLink developed a standard way to describe courses and micro-credentials across institutions and borders, based on the European Learning Model (ELM). Whether your institution uses ELM, OOAPI, Edu-API, or OCCAPI, your data can feed into the shared catalogue.
The QualityLink aggregator automatically collects course data from participating institutions and keeps it up to date. It’s open source, run on a non-profit basis, and free of charge for all European higher education institutions.
The QualityLink course catalogue brings together learning opportunities from all participating institutions in one searchable place. Students, employers, and recognition officers across Europe can discover what’s on offer.
You want to know whether your institution should participate, what you’ll get, and what the process looks like. You don’t need to be technical — your IT team handles the implementation.
You’re connecting your institution’s course data to the aggregator. You need the technical steps, the supported formats, and access to the dashboard.
QualityLink was a publicly funded Erasmus+ project (2023–2026) that developed open standards and tools for sharing course quality data across European higher education. Five partners from five countries built the specifications, the data aggregator, and the course catalogue.
The project concluded in May 2026. All tools and specifications remain freely available.
The QualityLink data aggregator lets European higher education institutions publish their course catalogue using interoperable standards and feed it into the shared European catalogue. Launched November 2025.
The QualityLink consortium published open technical specifications for sharing, discovering, and aggregating course data using ELM, OOAPI, Edu-API, and OCCAPI. First published April 2025, revised November 2025.
The QualityLink project team identified 28 quality indicators for micro-credentials across five thematic domains. Students and education stakeholders validated and ranked the indicators by relevance.
The QualityLink team is proud to launch the pilot version of the data aggregator. All European higher education institutions are now able to publish their course catalogue using interoperable standards (ELM, OOAPI, Edu-API, OCCAPI) and have their data feed into the pilot platform.
The QualityLink project team has identified 28 quality indicators for micro-credentials, grouped into 5 thematic domains. Students and other stakeholders in education validated and ranked the domains and indicators by relevance.
In April 2025, the QualityLink consortium published a set of draft technical specifications. The QualityLink project aims to create an open, reliable and scalable ecosystem for quality data on micro-credentials and other courses.
That’s the question at the heart of QualityLink — and we hosted a free webinar to explore it.
As the European micro-credential landscape grows in Europe, learners and institutions need course data that is open, easy to compare, and reliable. Currently, it often lacks the needed interoperability.
Check the webinar recording if you work in higher education (in particular for European Universities alliances), digital transformation, interoperability or micro-credentials.