Bialystok University of Technology has issued the first micro-credentials in its historical past. This is a response to the challenges of modern education. Micro-credentials are a software that considerably will increase the flexibility of the studying course of, aligns with the concept of LLL (Lifelong Learning), and responds to the wants of the labour market. Students from seven nations took half in the pilot micro-credentials programme at Bialystok University of Technology.
Micro-credentials are paperwork confirming the completion of quick kinds of education. They might concern, for instance, sensible abilities wanted on the labour market, most frequently inside a slim, specialised scope.
Micro-credentials perform as a competence scanner. They verify {that a} learner has acquired particular information, abilities and competences that reply each to their wants and to the wants of the labour market. For instance, employers can clearly state: “This person can design and programme a specific system.”
Bialystok University of Technology, in cooperation with the Educational Research Institute – National Research Institute, has simply paved the means for micro-credentials – a brand new means of serious about a profession in the twenty first century.
A course with college students from throughout the world
The first programme at Bialystok University of Technology to check the new format was a course in good residence design (“Smart Home design and configuration in Grenton system”). On 9–11 March 2026, 34 members from Mexico, Slovakia, Turkey, Lithuania, Poland, in addition to the University of Ruse in Bulgaria and the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina – associate universities which, along with Bialystok University of Technology, co-create the European University Across – met in the laboratories of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Bialystok University of Technology.
– We proposed an intensive 32-hour coaching course combining on-line theoretical preparation with on-site sensible workshops in our trendy laboratories – explains Rafał Grądzki, PhD, Eng., from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Bialystok University of Technology, the originator of the course. – The response was fast. In recruiting members, we used our wonderful contacts with associate universities from throughout the world in addition to our relationships inside the European University Across. Two college students of the Mechatronics research programme at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Bialystok University of Technology joined the actually worldwide working group.
Education tailor-made to the market
The selection of topic was not unintended. The Smart Home sector is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economic system – it’s estimated that by 2028 each third residence in Poland shall be “intelligent”. The course graduates not solely handed the examination but additionally left the college with {qualifications} enabling them to work as:
- installers of automation techniques,
- integrators of IoT (Internet of Things) options,
- power administration specialists.
Importantly, the college micro-credential goes hand in hand with a enterprise certificates issued by Grenton – a Polish producer of superior good residence techniques.
The coaching befell in the trendy Smart Home laboratory (at devoted educating stations developed collectively with Grenton), situated at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Bialystok University of Technology. As a outcome, course members have been in a position to perform duties associated to constructing automation in a sensible method and procure a certificates of completion of the coaching.
A digital “badge” as an asset in a CV
The introduction of a micro-credentials system by Bialystok University of Technology is a sign to employers: the college is turning into a competence hub, dynamically responding to market modifications.
The most essential advantages of Bialystok University of Technology’s participation in the pilot micro-credentials programme embody:
- increasing and growing the flexibility of the academic provide: the college can provide shorter kinds of education – micro-programmes or modules – which lead to acquiring a digitally recognised micro-credential,
- higher alignment with labour market wants: micro-credentials make it doable to design programmes targeted on particular competences sought by employers,
- growing the attractiveness of the college for brand new goal teams: the micro-credentials provide may be addressed not solely to college students, but additionally to graduates, working professionals or individuals wishing to vary their {qualifications},
- growing cooperation with the socio-economic surroundings: the course of of designing micro-credentials might happen in cooperation with enterprises, coaching establishments or business organisations,
- supporting the college’s digital transformation.
Digital micro-credentials issued by Bialystok University of Technology are saved on the Odznaka+ platform, which permits issuing, accumulating, storing and sharing digital badges in the Open Badges commonplace and equal PDF certificates. A digital badge may be simply shared with one click on on LinkedIn or in a digital CV.
At Bialystok University of Technology, the course of of coordinating and organising the issuance of micro-credentials is carried out by the Section for the Organisation of Education, guaranteeing the consistency of requirements and the high quality of carried out options.
More details about micro-credentials at Bialystok University of Technology may be discovered at: PB micro-credentials
Prepared by Monika Rokicka
See pictures from the course “Smart Home design and configuration in Grenton system” at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Bialystok University of Technology
The participation of some college students and academics in the intensive BIP course “Modern Solutions in Technical Systems: Smart Home Systems and FluidSim Pneumatic System Design” at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Bialystok University of Technology was co-financed from the challenge: Erasmus+ 2024-1-PL01-KA131-HED-000199259 and 2025-1-PL01-KA131-HED-000316864
