We apply principles of open source to re-engineer the current-state educational model by building a system to enable better business and education sectors collaboration. The OS.University DApp bridges the gap between businesses and education through blockchain, used for validating and verifying learners’ credentials, and smart contracts, which are managing content purchases, other marketplace transactions, as well as HR processes.

Main sectors: Education & Research; Tokenization

Main applications: Payments/Financial Infrastructure;
Economic Development

Established in: 2015

URL: https://os.university/

Organisation: Rechained Ltd (software development); Center for Shared Science and Business Development at Technical University of Sofia (research)

Organisation type: Consortium – Startup and University research center

Founders: Jordan Jambazov, Technology Lead; Momchil Jambazov, Design Lead; Hristian Daskalov; Research Lead; Prof. Ognyan Andeev, Research Supervisor 

Partners: Investor Media Group; VUZF University; Brain Workshop Institute; JobTiger; JobTiger Recruitment; Cobden Partners; Jamba; Acces MBA; Io Era; Navigato; Blockchain Founder; Found; Succeed; Global Academy Place; Give; SBS; Globalized

Country: Bulgaria

City: Sofia

Stage of project: Demo

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: Other/s

Whitepaper: https://os.university/static/open-source-university-edu-whitepaper.pdf

Github: https://github.com/OpenSourceUniversity

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenSource_Uni

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.