3s was part of a consortium (lead by GHK) providing support to the ECVET Users’ group and its working group.
The European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training, designed to enable individuals to transfer and accumulate progressively credit in view of qualifications, was adopted by the Parliament and the Council in 2009 and officially launched in a conference in November 2009. In the period 2010 and 2012, ECVET was experimented and countries were creating conditions to enable its progressive implementation as from 2012 onwards.
To support the Member States in promoting ECVET, the European Commission has set up a ECVET Users’ Group.