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Micro-Credentials
UB Startup and Innovation Collaboratory offers two micro-credentials, one through our Inclusive Launch Foundry and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Essentials.
These credentials enable students to acquire and demonstrate essential workforce-relevant skills and engage in extracurricular learning. Micro-credentials serve to bridge academic learning with industry and employer needs, enabling students to highlight targeted competencies, making them more market-ready and better aligned with employer expectations.
Smaller than a minor, certificate, or degree, micro credentials allow you to meet your personalized learning needs by gaining knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your academic or professional goals. Micro-credentials equip you with digital badges that showcase your achievements and all the skills you have acquired (or all it took to get there).
When you complete a micro-credential program, you will earn a digital badge or a series of digital badges. A digital badge is a clickable icon that houses information, including the issuing institution, the date earned, the criteria required to earn the badge and evidence showing you have met that criteria.
Digital badges are dynamic credentials that you own, so you can decide how you want to use them. You can add your digital badges to your social media profiles, digital résumé, e-portfolio and more.
UB digital badges are issued through Acclaim, allowing you to display your skills and accomplishments to employers, colleagues and peers. For questions, contact the UB Office of Micro-Credentials at micro@buffalo.edu or 716-645-1357.
