SKILLS-BASED
EDUCATION & WORKFORCE
Regulated learning & Skills-based workforce mobility
From competency-based learning to sector-specific authorization and lifelong learning pathways: issue verifiable credentials for what people actually can do, not just what diploma they hold.
The gap between what people can do and what they can prove is a structural problem for employers, training providers, and regulators alike. Diploma-first systems exclude capable people. Manual CV screening is slow and unreliable. Sector-specific authorizations get lost in paper trails.
Sphereon provides the credential infrastructure that makes learning outcomes portable, verifiable, and immediately usable — at the moment of hiring, at the point of authorization, and across the full career of a professional.
Where does the skills gap create friction?
Competencies are earned across institutions, sectors, and roles, but the systems that record them have not kept pace. The result: capable people who cannot prove what they can do, and employers who cannot assess what they cannot see.
Competency-based learning
Competency-based curricula and programmatic assessment produce rich evidence of what a student can do, but that evidence stays locked in the institution’s system. When a student leaves, their proof of competence does not travel with them in a form employers can verify independently.
Cross-sector workforce mobility
Organizations facing talent shortages need to retrain and redeploy workers from adjacent sectors. Without portable, verifiable skill records, this process relies on self-reported CVs and lengthy re-assessment procedures, slowing down transitions that could happen in weeks.
Sector-specific authorization and regulated skills
In aviation, maritime, healthcare, and high-risk industrial environments, professionals must prove specific competencies before performing authorized tasks. Managing these authorization records manually and across multiple employers, training providers, and regulatory bodies, creates compliance risk and administrative overhead.
Lifelong learning & continuing profesional development
Skills evolve. Certifications expire. Upskilling pathways produce partial credentials that are rarely portable. Without a continuous, verifiable record of professional development, individuals cannot easily demonstrate their growth to new employers or sector bodies.
This is how Sphereon solves the skills gap
Sphereon issues cryptographically signed credentials that travel with the individual: portable, independently verifiable at the moment they are needed.
Verifiable credentials for learning outcomes
Issue cryptographically signed credentials for any learning outcome: competency assessments, practical skill demonstrations, theoretical results, micro-credentials for partial progress, and fully achieved qualifications. Each credential is held by the individual, independently verifiable, and portable across employers, institutions, and borders.
Student-controlled credential wallets
Learning outcomes belong to the learner. Sphereon’s infrastructure issues credentials directly into any EUDI-compatible wallet: the student’s own choice of app, on their own device. They share them selectively with a prospective employer, a sector body, or a regulatory authority, without requiring the issuing institution to be contacted for verification.
Institutional and sector integration
Sphereon integrates with existing learning management systems, student information systems, and sector credential registries. Credentials can easily be integrated and issued directly from existing workflows: no rip-and-replace of current systems required.
Regulated skills and qualifications
For sectors with formal authorization requirements, such as aviation competencies, maritime STCW certificates, healthcare BIG-equivalent credentials, Sphereon supports the full lifecycle: issuance, wallet storage, employer verification, expiry monitoring, and renewal triggering.
What are some skill-based use cases?
| Context | What is issued | What this enables |
|---|---|---|
| MBO kwalificerend leren | Competency assessments, portfolio evidence, qualification | Portable proof of portfolio evidenence for students, employers and providers |
| HBO programmatisch toetsen | Partial and full learning outcomes, portfolio evidence | Same, but with proofs for international or follow-up education |
| Cross-sector retraining | Skill gap assessments, targeted upskilling records | Targeted and measurable upskilling. Verified pathways for non-traditional talent |
| Aviation & maritime competencies | ICAO, STCW-aligned authorization credentials | Better matching between people and roles |
| Lifelong learning | Continuing professional development records | Reduction in recruitment and training costs; verified career progression |
Operational outcomes
Accelerated time-to-work
Streamline the transition from skill discovery to active deployment.
By replacing manual vetting of paper resumes with instant digital verification, organizations can slash the time it takes to move a person from an initial assessment into a productive role.
Precision talent matching
Replace high-level job descriptions with verifiable capability data.
Digital skill credentials allow for much more accurate matching between a person’s actual capabilities and the specific requirements of a role, reducing mis-hires and improving long-term retention.
Trusted paths for all talent
Bring non-traditional and artisanal skills into the formal economy.
By providing a cryptographically secure way to prove practical experience, whether in craft, sports, or community work, you build a trusted bridge for people who lack formal diplomas but do possess high-value capabilities.
Ready for skills-based learning?
Contact our team to discuss how verifiable skill credentials
can transform your education or organization.