BitDegree is world’s first blockchain-powered, smart-incentives based online education platform which will revolutionize global education and tech recruiting. The main purpose of the BitDegree platform is to let Students acquire skills that are currently required by the labor market. The way to do it is not to ask business what skills they need in the far future (3-5 years), but to respond to explicitly expressed skilled labor demand quickly. 

Main sectors: Education & Research

Main applications: Business Formation/Licensing

Established in: 2017

URL: https://www.bitdegree.org/

Organisation: Bitdegree UAB

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – Startup

Founders: Ervinas Rimdeika, Co-founder; Danielius Stasiulis, Co-founder; Andrius Putna, Co-founder

Partners: Vilnius University

Country: Lithuania

City: Kaunas

Stage of project: Live

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: Other/s

Whitepaper: https://www.bitdegree.org/bitdegree-vision.pdf

Github: https://github.com/bitdegree

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitdegree_learn

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.