Transparency Mechanism of qualifications and competences

Abstract

Mobility of workers and students can be an incentive to improve employment prospects. The possibility to obtain formal recognition of knowledge, skills, competences and qualifications acquired in all learning contexts (formal, non-formal and informal) can support occupations and professions, and leading to the validation of those competences that transversely cross different geographical or productive contexts.

For enterprises it is necessary to change the working dynamics in order to be able to anticipate problems and to define in a short time the directions to be taken, to respond promptly with innovative choices, which can support the levels of competitiveness in the global and digital labour market.

The main objective of this study is to analyse the European and national policies developed in the last decade to support the mobility of individuals and their respective qualifications and skills; to detail the mechanisms of transparency (EQF, ECVET, Validation) and the outputs in terms of tools and processes carried out in this context in Italy (i.e. the National Qualifications Framework, the Atlas of Labour and Qualifications).

Therefore, it is intended to provide a global framework (as exhaustive as possible) useful to all practitioners (teachers, trainers, project designers, researchers, participants in Erasmus + actions, etc ...) related to the qualifications and competence field, who are involved in these thematic, but often without having an overall panorama.

Key words: learning, transparency, recognition, qualifications, skills