This downloadable Handbook is the final result of the CARER+ project’s Certification Process Development.
The Handbook focuses on two main topics:
The first principal topic relates to the Carer+ Digital Competence Framework (DCF), which represents a unique combination of three competence domains: general digital competences, enabling digital competence in care as well as care-specific digital competence. Carer+ DCF is the fundamental source of the definition of learning outcomes to be gained and demonstrated by a certification applicant, and to be referred to, evaluated and confirmed by a certifying body.
The second principal topic is the implementation of a Carer+ certification process into broader national and/or European certification systems. The key question is how to make the Carer+ certification logic compatible with national qualification systems and certification processes in order for the care workers to have their Carer+ skills and competences recognised, and possibly certified, beyond the project’s frame.
Due to the diversity and complexity of different national qualification and certification systems, this Deliverable does not inquire into the particular ways each specific national system would be able to accommodate a Carer+ component, but rather provides a set of guidelines and recommendations for those interested in going in this direction.