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The acquisition of a deeper transparency of people's qualifications and competences is one of EU's priority objectives. The definition of an European Qualification Framework aims to reach several macro-objectives, such as the support and realisation of an "economy based on a more competitive and dynamic knowledge of the world" (Lisbon 2000) and the sustentative actions aiming to the cohesion policies for building an economic, social and politic integrated framework.
The support to the transparency policies allows to:

  • enhancing the competences acquired by the people, in order to individuate the skills;
  • enabling people in finding a motivation for a life long and life wide learning support;
  • easing the people's professional mobility in the countries, regions, sectors and single enterprises;
  • rising the quality of the training supply systems.

In this way and in the ambit of the Europass implementation process, the project intends to support the workers' professional mobility employed in the mechanical-engineering sector of the 5 countries involved in the project (Italy, Romania, Austria, Spain, Czech Republic). As far as the investigated sector concerns, it represents a relevant leading element in the economic and productive systems in the local areas of the involved countries, both in economic and employment terms and in the phenomena that attest training and vocational "emergencies".

The European Commission is carrying on discussing with the engineering sector's representatives all the matters concerning the competitiveness of the sector itself during the periodical meetings known as "Mechanical Engineering Dialogue". This initiative, coherently with the foreseen macro-actions, has the purpose of creating devices and instruments directed to the comparison of the national/regional qualification system in the engineering area. In this direction, the project intends to analyse, confront and rebuild the descriptions of the work and competences of a determined number of professional profiles in the engineering sector, selected on the basis of their importance in the various national/regional productive contexts.

The project also aims to create a device for the transparency and validation of the competences acquired in non-formal and informal contexts on the basis of the descriptions of the work and competences previously analysed, compared and rebuilt. So, it will be possible to provide useful contents for the compilation of the Europass Curriculum Vitae, in the sections arranged for the self-certification of technical-professional and transversal competences.

The instruments produced and tested can integrate, apart from the Europass system, also with the various devices and/or structures arranged for the recognition and transparency in the partner countries.