PROJECT OUTPUTS

Planned Course of Action

QualityLink is dedicated to creating a seamless and interoperable environment for sharing quality data across European higher education by developing a pilot platform that will aggregate relevant quality information, improving the decision-making process for all stakeholders and fostering a more flexible and learner-centric educational landscape.

  • Define quality domains and indicators.
  • Test relevance of indicators with stakeholders.
  • Create inventory of relevant data sources.
  • Assess technical feasibility of aggregating data.
  • Create open standards to identify and match courses.
  • Create open standards for publishing and aggregating interoperable quality information.
  • Test the newly developed standards with selected institutions and data sources.
  • Pilot one-stop-shop platform that aggregates quality information from different sources.
Nov
2025

Pilot version

Data Aggregator

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.

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Nov
2025

Consultation

Indicator Ranking with Students & Stakeholders

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.

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Apr
2025

Specifications

Technical Specifications

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.

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Apr
2025

Output

Feasibility Analysis of Indicators

The QualityLink project aims at creating a technical architecture for aggregating basic course data and quality indicators from various trusted data sources, including the ability to match data from different sources on the same micro-credential, course.

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Jan 2025

Output

Quality Data Exchange Architecture​

Over the past months, the QualityLink consortium has been working on a technical architecture for exchanging data on courses and micro-credentials. The concept paper on the technical architecture is now available.
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Oct
2024

Output

Ontology Mapping

Over the past months, the QualityLink consortium has been working on a technical architecture for exchanging data on courses and micro-credentials. A standardised ontology will be at the heart of the proposed architecture.
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Mar
2024

Output

Mock-Up of the Platform

The mock-up illustrates how one of the final products of QualityLink, the prototype platform, might look. The mock-ups have been designed based on example data and reviewed within the project consortium.
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Feb
2024

Output

Quality Domains and Indicators

Based on the five quality domains, the project partners have assembled a set of nearly 30 concrete, measurable indicators for quality. For each indicator, one or more possible data sources have been identified.
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ALL PLANED OUTPUTS

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Technical Standards

A set of specifications are available for consultation and are being implemented by the pilot aggregator.

Prototype Platform

The pilot version of the data aggregator is available. The public course catalogue platform will be launched early 2026.

QualityLink is dedicated to creating a seamless and interoperable environment for sharing quality data across European higher education

PROJECT REF: 2023-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000161253

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