‘KEY 4 Key Competencies and Solutions for the Effectiveness of Internships’ is aimed at developing methodological solutions, promoting cultural approaches to learning in professional contexts and at developing key competencies (KC).
The overall aim of this study was to develop a mapping of internationally used sectoral qualifications systems and frameworks and their qualifications. The study informs future reflection on how these types of qualifications could be linked to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
In January 2012, the Austrian National Agency for Lifelong Learning set up an ECVET contact point. At the same time, a team of national ECVET experts were appointed and the initiative continued in 2016.
The Women Entrepreneurs project was a 4-year research, innovation and staff exchange programme in the Horizon 2020 framework of the European Union which started in 2015.
The purpose of this project (coordinated by ICF, Belgium) was to enable the European Commission to fulfill its tasks of supporting national authorities and VET stakeholders to promote and apply the ECVET principles and tools, coordinating the governance and cooperation process, developing ECVET in coordination with other instruments that support flexible learning and career pathways.
The purpose of this contract was twofold: On the one hand, the project developed a methodology and a policy tool – a skills monitoring index – that can be used to evaluate the performance of EU Member States’ skills systems (e.g. in terms of skill development, activation and utilisation);
The thematic network ‘Work-based Learning and Apprenticeships’ (NetWBL) focuses on the identification and promotion of good or interesting practices and products relevant to the development and delivery of work-based learning.
The objective of this study was to better understand the use of the learning outcomes approach as a tool for dialogue between the education and training system and the labour market.
The HCEU project developed a competence matrix (VQTS-method) for health care professionals in ‚elderly care‘ and ‚nursing‘ . It also created tools and instruments for facilitating validation processes of foreign elderly care and nursing professionals within the project membership countries Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Greece in order to foster mobility.
The aim of this project was to assess the performance of EU Member States’ skills systems and to provide early warning signals of the presence of skill mismatches in occupations of priority economic relevance.