2.2.1. EU System for Issuing and Receiving Digital Credentials (EDCI)
The European Digital Credentials Infrastructure (EDCI) offers standards and services for HE institutions with regard to Digital MicroCredentials across the European Union.
Some major aims are:
reduce the work and cost of issuing secure credentials,
eliminate administrative work involved in verifying credentials,
get the automatic support of EU recognition instruments and best practices on data privacy
as well as
increase efficiency in processing recruitment applications,
automatically detect fake or tampered credentials,
increase transparency of credentials.
The integration of IT tools from the EU Commission (for issuing, storage, verification, viewing and transfer) into HE-institutions’ software systems is enabled and in ongoing further development. One of the scenarios is to enable cross-border MC-portability by using the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), which is mapped and designed within the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP).
For the training purpose in DigiProf, solely the ‘service’ section (yellow) of the EDCI is relevant:
Fig. 2.2. EDCI for issuing and receiving Digital Credentials https://europa.eu/europass/en/interoperability-european-digital-credentials-learning
Based on the systematic EDCI background, teachers or professors are able to
design and issue a credential manually by filling in the data in the template
of the EUROPASS Credential Builder 
complying with the latest European
data model. This process is subject of the next section.