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European Business Wallets: What They Could Mean for Credentials

A short briefing on a proposal still in negotiation.

  • Knowledge
  • L3 Enable
  • Horizon
  • Digital identity and wallets
  • ICB-H01
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Why this course

The November 2025 proposal could let organisations hold and present attestations such as accreditation status or a quality seal, which bears directly on the Global Quality Seal. Kept as a short Watch course until the regulation is adopted.

What you will be able to do

  1. Describe the purpose of the proposed European Business Wallets and how they relate to the EUDI Wallet.
  2. Identify possible uses for organisational credentials such as accreditations, quality seals and authorisations.
  3. Track the legislative status and decide when to act.

Modules

  1. The proposal
  2. Uses for credentials
  3. Status and timing

Assessment

Knowledge check (8 questions).

Badge evidence: Passed knowledge check.

Prerequisites: ICB-F06

Who it is for

  • Companies and employers
  • Associations and policy

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkIDWLskillL3levelKstage

Digital identity and wallets (IDWL, VRITE pillar Trustworthiness)

Related skills: Policy and regulatory navigation, Quality assurance and accreditation. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Self-paced module for HR, talent acquisition and mobility; HR and learning technology owners. Badge aligns to ICSF IDWL L3 (SFIA 4) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as awareness evidence; it does not show performance.

In education

Micro-credential of 1.5 h notional workload (about 0.1 ECTS), indicative EQF 5 to 6, assessed by knowledge check with feedback. Stand-alone or elective unit.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 1.5 h (about 0.1 ECTS). Level: ICSF L3, EQF 5 to 6 (indicative). Type of assessment: knowledge check with feedback. Form of participation: Online, asynchronous. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: ICB-F06.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Trustworthiness.

AI dimension: Business wallets and the authority of agents acting for companies.

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The course is open on GitHub in LiaScript format under CC BY 4.0. View the source or read how to suggest a change.