Learner mobility is our goal

Join us in fostering international cooperation and enhancing the mobility of learners and professionals worldwide through transformational credentialing and recognition. Explore our initiatives, connect with our community and contribute to shaping a future where qualifications are recognized beyond borders.

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Join us at the 2025 GDN Annual Meeting in Olso

Network with industry leaders, gain insights and participate in interactive sessions at the GDN Annual Meeting in Olso, Norway. Don't miss this annual event shaping the future of our industry.

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Become a GDN Signatory and Patron today

Join industry leaders in shaping the future. Apply to become a GDN Signatory and Patron and align your organisation with a global network committed to excellence and innovation.

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Network Impact

2600

Innovators

90+

Signatories & Patron

34

Countries

12

Global Board Members

Why it matters to join this international network

By joining the GDN Network, you become part of a movement that transcends borders. Help us create a world where seamless learner mobility is attainable through digitization. Our goal is to ensure learners can share their education documents and credentials when they want, where they want and to whom they want, securely and efficiently, to advance rapid access to education and work.

Opportunities to Advance Change

Research

The GDN Network offers and supports research and resources focused on inspiring the creation of secure, interoperable digital credential exchange networks. Our goal is to create a “Network of Networks” ecosystem. Through research, case studies and global projects, we support initiatives in policy, interoperability, scalable digital networks, microcredentials, standards and credential portability.

Knowledge Library

The GDN Network’s knowledge library enables you to stay informed and ahead of the curve. Industry leaders, scholars and GDN Signatories and Patrons share best practices in digital credential policy and technological standards.

Thought Leadership Events

The GDN Network provides members access to extensive thought leadership resources such as webinars and our Annual Meeting, offering opportunities to network with other industry leaders, deepen expertise, and foster growth in the evolving field of digital credentials.

Digital HUB Support Services

The GDN Network’s services are available to all Signatories and Patrons. Some of these are publicly available such as the GDN T.R.U.S.T Hub, which serves as a visual mapping of the GDN Network’s digital learner data ecosystem.

Engage with the GDN Ecosystem

Advance your Organization’s Impact

Join the GDN Network and demonstrate your organization’s commitment to advancing and supporting transformational change for learners in the field of digital credential portability, standards and learner mobility. The GDN Network is focused on creating a Network of Networks and is committed to working with you to transform the supports for credential exchange across all communities.

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Join our Webinars

Gain insights from experts by attending or delivering thought panels through the GDN Conversation Series, our regular webinars to discuss and showcase pivotal developments in digital credential mobility, standards, interoperability, policy, governance and more. We need to work together to help build the communities’ knowledge as a way to advance secure data ecosystems and learner mobility.

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Adopt Ethical Principles by Becoming a Signatory

As a GDN Network Signatory, you commit to endorsing ethical principles aimed at improving the digital credential landscape and learner mobility. We do this together and in partnership by demonstrating a commitment towards ethical, quality assured credential exchange to ensure equity, transparency and inclusivity in credential data portability and learner mobility.

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Submit a Paper for Publication or Join a Working Group

The GDN Network invites contributions to its growing body of knowledge and encourages researchers to submit papers for publication focused on innovations, case studies and research in digital credentialing and learner mobility. Further engage with experts by joining specialized working groups and help to do your part to contribute to reshaping policy, standards and the future of digital credential exchange.

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Contribute to the GDN’s Impact by Becoming a Patron

Support the GDN Network’s mission by becoming a Patron and contribute to advancing international collaboration for digital credentials and trust networks. The ultimate goal is to ensure all communities are working together to support learners. We need your help to make this happen.

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Join our Annual Convenings

Participate in lively discussions and share cutting-edge research presentations and innovative collaborations at the GDN Network’s Annual Meeting, a space for global collaboration where senior decision makers seek to collaborate and create a Network of Networks that is focused on inspiring and advancing next generation digital credential exchange and learner mobility.

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Testimonials from our Community

Navin Vasudev

Manager, Communications & Stakeholders, South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)

"SAQA has benefited from the GDN is in the area of global networking. It has been playing a very important role for SAQA at every annual conference that we have participated in for a number of years, but also on a regular basis, the linkages that we have at the global level with GDN experts, policymakers from the government, and other stakeholders. That kind of relationship building has really helped us in building our own knowledge in the area of digitization and digitalization."

Melanie Gottlieb

Executive Director, AACRAO

"One of the greatest benefits of being a part of the GDN is the ability to engage with the network. Those who are engaged with the network are thought leaders in the space of global mobility."

Jennifer Moesker

Manager Strategy & Innovation, Studielink

"I would advise finding your peers, people in other countries who are involved and driven to work towards a better student journey and from their own practice. So, think big but work small. Tap into the knowledge of the crowd."

Romesh Vadivel

ARUCC

“As a nation often referred to as a mosaic in which diversity and multiculturism are fundamental cornerstones, Canada has long placed great importance and value on the free and open mobility of both ideas and of learners. Canada’s nascent National Network supports student – and social – mobility, and aligns perfectly with the central tenets of the Groningen Declaration. It is for this reason that ARUCC is a proud signatory, supporter and partner of the GDN”