Aurora Micro-credential Coordination Committee (Aurora-MCC) Moves from Framework to Implementation

The Aurora Micro-Credential Coordination Committee (Aurora-MCC) formally constituted itself in November 2025, marking an important step in translating the Aurora Guidelines for Setting Up Micro-Credentials into coordinated practice across Aurora.

Participants at the second Aurora-MCC meeting. Photo credit: Aurora-MCC, Raab 

The constitutive meeting chaired by Christina Raab from Universität Innsbruck, confirmed the committee’s mandate, composition, and operational arrangements. With this, the Aurora-MCC was established as a permanent, cross-institutional coordination body focused on facilitation, peer learning, and ecosystem-building rather than quality control.

Moving from Framework to Implementation

The committee’s work builds directly on the Aurora Guidelines for Setting Up Micro-credentials, published in 2025 as a living document aligned with the European Council Recommendation on a European approach to micro-credentials. These Aurora guidelines provide a shared European framework for the quality-assured design, implementation, recognition, and visibility of Aurora micro-credentials, while fully respecting institutional autonomy and national regulatory contexts. The Aurora-MCC ensures continuity between this strategic framework and its operational interpretation across Aurora.

At its second meeting in January 2026, conducted online, the Aurora-MCC discussed a proof of concept for the implementation of jointly offered Aurora micro-credentials. The discussion addressed overarching principles and workflows, including coordinated academic collaboration, issuing arrangements and digital and administrative processes. The proof-of-concept discussion served as a structured test case to explore how the Aurora guidelines can be applied in practice and how joint Aurora micro-credentials could be implemented in a scalable and interoperable manner.

The Aurora-MCC currently works predominantly in an online format, enabling regular monthly meetings and continuous exchange. Through its ongoing activities, the Aurora-MCC is actively advancing the implementation phase of the Aurora guidelines, contributing to the development of a trusted, interoperable, and future-oriented micro-credential ecosystem within the Aurora.

For questions related to the work of the Aurora-MCC, the committee can be contacted via aurora-courses@uibk.ac.at