The purpose is to make life easier for academic institutions and education bodies as well as their graduates and alumni by creating a digital academic passport to store and showcase credentials. Graduates from universities, business schools, and training centers can now collect certified credentials in this centralized space, for life. Indeed, in a world where continuous education is becoming the norm, Smart Diplomaâ„¢ is the digital passport allowing people to control and show off all their credentials for any job opportunity.

In the education world, the verification of credentials is a major challenge that can't be solved alone. That's why Smart Diplomaâ„¢ works as a connection within the learners-trainers-recruiters ecosystem, offering a secure, reliable, and user-friendly solution.

Practical, time saving, and money saving for all parties, it moreover has an essential added value for academic institutions as it is a new and effective way of staying in touch with their alumni.

The innovation of Smart Diplomaâ„¢ lies in

• centralized production process of digital certified credentials (patent pending)
• data privacy protection technology used through a unique high-level encryption/decryption process
• innovative centralized and secure personal portfolio for graduates to collect, manage, and share their certified credentials
• credentials fully connected with social platforms
• web-connected credentials as a lifetime bond between academic institutions and their alumni, allowing alumni associations to keep in touch with their members, get up-to-date information, and find lost alumni.

As Smart Diplomaâ„¢ was conceived with academic institutions in mind, two versions have been developed. The first can be used without any need to integrate it into existing IT software systems. The second can be fully integrated with the institution’s ERP. For this, CVTRUST has created partnerships with all major ERPs used in the academic world in order to be compatible with any of their software and to be easily used along existing web services.

EFMD has partnered with CVTRUST to offer an exclusive deal to the first fifty EFMD members to subscribe to the service. They will benefit from a free of charge use of Smart Diplomaâ„¢ for all their Alumni community and a thirty-percent discount for all graduates as of 2013.