This project seeked to systematically explore innovative instruments for enhancing learning and development opportunities of people with educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.

To implement the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), countries were asked to link their qualifications systems or national qualifications frameworks (NQF) to the EQF: National qualifications systems should be referred to the EQF until 2010 and references to the EQF levels should be introduced in all new certificates and Europass documents by 2012.

The aim of this training programme was to learn about and apply tools for competence documentation, which were developed and tested in the ESF project ‘Bildungsberatung in Wien‘ (‘Educational Guidance in Vienna‘, 2008 – 2010).

The aim of the project was to use the Europass Mobility as a documentation instrument for ECVET and to make proposals for the further development of section 5a.

The 7EU-VET project was designed as a research study in vocational education and training which built upon common European strategies, frameworks and tools that had been developed and supported them with the research action among seven European countries.

In the course of the planning of a Master Degree Program in the interdisciplinary interface of “Mechatronics” and "Environment" this study shows the demand of such a study program in Austria.

3s Consulting Ltd. was commissioned with an evaluation study on the effects of § 124b UG 2002 by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research.

In the year 2011 3s was commissioned with an up-date of the evaluation study developed in 2007 on Bachelor Programs in the health care professions in Lower Austria.

The FLLLEX project addressed the challenges and implications of LifeLong Learning incorporation into European higher education institutions. How flexible are those institutions when it comes to LifeLong Learning? Hence: FLLLEX. LifeLong Learning opens up a multitude of new possibilities for higher education institutions but the impact on the organisation as such remains understudied. What is the role of higher education in the wider landscape of LifeLong Learning? What are the institutional changes for the future? What strategy can the project propose to other higher education institutions and what policy advise to European and national players?

The overall aim of the project NQF-SQF was to create common grounds for referencing national qualifications frameworks and sectoral qualifications/competence frameworks to the EQF, thereby providing for comparability of qualifications on the basis of learning outcomes defined in terms of abilities required by work processes.