“CROSS-BORDER ACCREDITATION OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES”

On 17 January 2008 SIU and Masters of Crafts, Norway have hosted the thematic workshop on “Cross-border accreditation of skills and competences” on behalf of the Leonardo Thematic Group on Transparency of qualifications, validation of non-formal and informal learning, credit transfer.

The Seminar aimed at providing an update on most recent policy developments concerning ECVET (theoretical overview and state of the art of the European debate), as well as some examples of interesting practices carried out in the field.

A discussion on future perspectives, plans and projects has concluded the event.

This initiative is financed by the European Commission – Directorate General for Education and Culture in the framework of the Thematic Monitoring activities of the LLP Leonardo da Vinci Programme. National co-funding is provided by the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Security – Directorate General for Guidance and Training Policies.