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The article is a study based on the European Open Badges Platform (EU-OBP) project, under the Erasmus+ Programme, which is being implemented in seven European countries: Cyprus, France, Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The project coordinator is EuroEd Foundation, Iasi, Romania. The EU-OBP project aims to assess, develop and promote a common European platform for digital badges, targeted at adult education organizations, adult educators and adult learners. The European open badges platform will enable adult education organizations and adult educators to award digital badges to the public.  Adult educators will gain new IT competences and get familiar with innovative tools for the recognition of soft skills and key competencies whereas learners will be awarded badges valid at a European level which will help them with future job seeking or further educational needs. The article outlines the objectives, methodology and outputs of the project and focuses on the main research findings on the use of open badges in Romania and other neighbouring countries.

Keywords: open badges, adult education, recognition, soft skills.