Background
The European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training/ECVET is established as EU instrument in the Copenhagen Declaration in 2002, involving 33 European countries in its implementation.
Its was set up with the aim to address the challenges, opportunities and requirements of the new Europe, particularly the enlargement of the European Union, in the field of education and training. This is achieved by promoting mutual trust, transparency and recognition of competences and qualifications, and thereby establishing a basis for increasing mobility and facilitating access to lifelong learning.
Action is needed with the aim of improving closer cooperation in order to facilitate and promote mobility and the development of inter-institutional cooperation, partnerships and other transnational initiatives, also in order to raise the profile of the European education and training area in an international context and strengthening Europe's competitive power worldwide.
This calls for a voluntary system with common reference levels, common principles for certification, and common measures, including a credit transfer system for vocational education and training, as well as common principles regarding validation.
For more information on ECVET, you can go to the following sources:
- EU policy in the field of vocational education and training – European Commission
- The ECVET Secretariat
- European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training – Cedefop
ECVET related activities within EHRO-N
Workshops - Nuclear job Taxonomy
The job taxonomy covers the three life-cycle stages of the nuclear power plant: new build, operation, decommissioning. It consists of three elements; 1) list of jobs, 2) job profiles, focused in the definition of competence required and 3) catalogue of knowledge, skill and competence items, to be used as aid for drafting the profiles. The progress in the preparation of these outcomes has been mainly achieved during the six dedicated technical workshops held so far:
- 6th workshop: Istanbul (Turkey) Feb 2015
Downloadreport_6ws.pdfEnglish - 5th workshop: Madrid (Spain) Nov 2013
Downloadreport_5ws.pdfEnglish - 4th workshop: Bergen NH (The Netherlands), May 2013
Downloadreport_4ws.pdfEnglish - 3rd workshop: Thessaloniki (Greece), Oct 2012
Downloadreport_3ws.pdfEnglish - 2nd workshop: Petten (The Netherlands), Feb 2012
Downloadreport_2ws.pdfEnglish - 1st workshop: Bergen NH (The Netherlands), Oct 2011
Downloadreport_1ws.pdfEnglish
Workshops - Qualifications for nuclear decommissioning
- Bergen NH (Netherlands) 2016
Download2ws_decom_debriefing_web.pdfEnglish - Lisbon (Portugal) 2015
Download1ws_decommdebriefing_web.pdfEnglish
ECVET Seminars
- 3rd ECVET Seminar - Rome (Italy) 2014
Downloadbooklet_lite_3rdseminar.pdfEnglish - 2nd ECVET Seminar - Budapest (Hungary) 2013
Downloadecvet2ndseminar_flyer.pdfEnglish - 1st ECVET Seminar - Brussels (Belgium) 2012
Downloadpresent_1stseminar_ecvet_lefeuvre_van_wezel.pdfEnglishDownload1stseminar_pres_dgrtd.pdfEnglish