This badge is issued for accessing and viewing all content of the "Essentials of Open Badges" session offered during the online course "21st-century skills and recognition with Open Badges" which is implemented within the strategic capacity-building project "Digital Generation Youth". This project is part of the Cities of Learning initiative.  
The session activities include:
- intro to Open Badges standard and its unique features
 - tips on how to create a good badge
 - defining objectives for using badges
 - badge types
 - discussing and sharing reasons for using badges
 
This course is made available thanks to the co-funding of EU programme Erasmus+.