Share your digital credential
Digital credentials are designed to make it easier to share with potential employers, training and education institutions when applying for a job opportunity or with other institutions, for example for recognition purposes. You should never share the original digital credential file (i.e., the file you received via email and downloaded to your wallet in JSON-LD format). This is the original version of your credential and should only be accessible to you. To share credentials, you can:
- Create a custom share-link of the credential from the Europass wallet or the EDC Viewer. The share-link leads to the same view as the credential you access from the Viewer, but does not allow you to share it further.
- Generate a PDF export of the credential from the EDC Viewer. The PDF export is a two-page document that consists of the thumbnail image of the credential, a display of the verification checks, and a link and QR-code that lead to the view of the digital credential in the EDC Viewer.
You will only be able to generate a share-link or a PDF export by accessing the credential from your Europass wallet.
Once you've created a share-link or PDF export, you'll always need to specify an expiration date. This ensures that you are always in control of your data. By setting an expiration date, you'll ensure that third parties can access and verify the validity of your credentials, but they won't be able to keep your data for longer than you allow them to. You can extend or shorten the validity period of the share-link or the one included in your PDF export through your Europass account.
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