Groningen Declaration Network: AI, Credential Portability & Workforce Skills Development
Advancing global dialogue to support learner mobility in an AI-enabled world
Welcome to the GDN AI & Credential Portability Resource
Artificial Intelligence is transforming how learning is recognized, skills are verified, and talent moves across borders. Around the world, institutions, employers, governments, allied organizations and technology partners are rethinking how credentials are issued, interpreted, and exchanged.
The Groningen Declaration Network (GDN) is uniquely positioned to bring together global leaders committed to improving credential portability, data trustworthiness, and learner mobility. This new AI-focused resource hub serves as a shared space for dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge exchange as we navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-enabled verification and recognition.
Here you’ll find resources, webinars, case studies, and discussions that explore how AI is shaping the future of workforce readiness and global pathways for learners.
Why AI Matters for Credential Portability
AI is reshaping the credential ecosystem in ways that directly support GDN’s mission:
Enhancing Trust & Verification
- AI-driven credential authentication and fraud detection
- Improved confidence in cross-border document exchange
- Real-time analysis of digital credential formats and metadata
Supporting Rapid Skill Recognition
- Automated mapping of skills to workforce requirements
- Equivalency assessments across systems and jurisdictions
- Personalized learner pathway recommendations
Expanding Global Workforce Mobility
- Reduced barriers to employment recognition
- Faster processing for refugees, migrants, and international learners
- Scalable solutions for governments and institutions
Strengthening Equity & Access
- Tools that support inclusive recognition of diverse learning experiences
- Technology-enabled recognition for skills gained in non-formal environments
GDN’s Role in AI
The GDN network already plays a critical role in shaping global policy, practice, and infrastructure for trusted credential exchange. As AI accelerates change, GDN’s collaborative leadership helps ensure the technology:
- advances learner agency
- supports ethical and transparent recognition
- aligns with global mobility and inclusion goals
- strengthens the digital credential ecosystem across jurisdictions
This resource hub amplifies that work by offering a structured roadmap and ongoing opportunities for member engagement.
Roadmap for AI Engagement Across the GDN Network
As part of its strategic plan and in the coming years, GDN provides a multi-phase AI engagement roadmap to help members build capacity and shape the agenda for global credential recognition.
- • Resource library on AI developments (this hub)
- • Webinars and thought-leadership sessions
- • Showcasing global examples and pilots
- • Deeper-dive guidance and learning sessions and workshops at Annual and Regional meetings and webinars
- • Collaborative discussions on governance, ethics, and implementation
- • Use-case exploration and reflection
- • Drafting shared materials for AI-enabled portability
- • Network-led recommendations for global recognition bodies
- • Integrating AI insights into annual meeting agendas
- • Expanding global collaboration opportunities
- • Supporting workforce-development ecosystems worldwide
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Webinars & Learning Sessions
Below is a curated collection of past and upcoming sessions exploring AI’s role in credential portability, skills recognition, and learner mobility. New events will be added regularly.
These sessions are available to view in the GDN resource library, accessible to signatories and patrons.
This third installment of Demystifying AI explores how AI developments are occurring in an exponential manner where frameworks and policies are lagging and human understanding of how to best leverage this new technology. The cadence of development is defying conventional hype cycle pathways and is not only bifurcated and very different from other technology related development cycles. There is an oligopoly driving the development of the AI platforms. Yet, the exploration of the playbooks are being vertically driven by individuals and groups of users within industry domains and are highly fragmented. With clarity and candor, Rick and Alex examined what’s working, what’s worrying, and where we go from here.
In this session, we explored methods of utilizing AI models and their potential for advancing learner mobility, pathways, and pipelines to employment. AI, like all technology innovations, continued to evolve and shift, with important conversations taking place that examined models, ethics, methods, and standards. This keynote address from two learned experts in the lifelong learning and digital field explored the dimensions of possibility and trust to enable forward-thinking dialogue about how to bridge constructs and sectors in the AI field as a support to learner mobility.
Resources
Global status
- Record pace of AI use growth: https://www.investmentresearchpartners.com/post/chart-of-the-week-6-29-2025-the-monetization-dilemma
- Ai Readiness Index: https://oxfordinsights.com/ai-readiness/ai-readiness-index/
- Global Infrastructure Outlook: https://outlook.gihub.org/
- World Bank Group Infrastructure Monitor: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/251a7442-debb-470a-9132-f1e829f77f23
- AI Innovation in the Global South CSIS: An Open Door: AI Innovation in the Global South amid Geostrategic Competition
- Ethics and AI: https://humanityai.ai/
Employment and jobs
- EU AI Act: Annex on Education and hiring use cases: Annex III: High-Risk AI Systems Referred to in Article 6(2) | EU Artificial Intelligence Act
- Pitfalls of LLM’s making hiring decisions: https://eightfold.ai/learn/evaluating-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-llms-in-hiring-decisions/
- Current AI job view: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/ai-at-work-momentum-builds-but-gaps-remain
Enterprise links:
- Primer: You can With AI (KPMG) podcasts (7): You can with AI.
- AI and Fraud: A Blog Post by Velocity Network Foundation, a GDN MOU partner
- AI use in credential recognition: Two projects to watch
Contribute to the Conversation
GDN thrives on global collaboration. As we build this AI-focused knowledge hub, we invite members to:
Share examples from national or institutional pilots
Propose topics for future webinars
Provide feedback on the hub
Submit resources or research for inclusion
Highlight emerging challenges or opportunities
Your insights help shape the future of transparent, fair, and learner-centered credential mobility.
Stay Connected
Join the global GDN community in advancing safe, effective, and inclusive uses of AI:
Subscribe to updates on new sessions and resources
Participate in upcoming webinars and roundtables
Engage with peers and experts at the Annual and Regional Meetings
Collaborate on shared frameworks and policy developments
Together, we can ensure that AI strengthens—not complicates—the global movement toward trusted, portable, and learner-driven recognition.
Call to Action
Let’s build a future where every learner can move freely across borders and into opportunity—supported by AI, strengthened by trust, and guided by the GDN community.
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