EFCoCert
Your premium partner for developing competence certification schemes within EU funded projects.
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WHY COMPETENCE CERTIFICATION?
Since 2014 EFCoCert (European Foundation for Competence Certification) is committed to support implementation of EU Education policies & lifelong learning objectives and horizon, in which:
- Job profiles appear, evolve, vanish so quickly that formal training system / offer cannot follow
- Lifelong learning is essential to adapt to a constantly changing labour world
- Soft skills and side abilities become more important than diploma and CV for a good match
- Non-formal & informal learning are key EU priorities, calling for recognition / validation
- Knowing doesn’t mean ability to do, apply, perform, achieve – competence does
- Competence is now understood as “ability to apply knowledge and skills to achieve intended results”
- Achieving intended results by doing, irrelevant how you learned, is the only relevant finality
EFCoCert’s INNOVATIVE APPROACH
Take our 20 minutes microlearning course to discover EFCoCert’s unique and highly innovative approach for ISO 17024 compliant competence certification by involving the candidates people “ecosystem”.
EU Projects
ANY ACQUIRED COMPETENCE NEEDS RECOGNITION – THIS IS EFCOCERT’s EXPERTISE
Competence certification & ERASMUS+ projects
Evaluators are more and more aware of the crucial importance of adding a recognition and certification dimension in complement to training courses and curricula dedicated to acquire and enhance any set of competences, skills and good practices.
Involving EFCoCert’s unique expertise for developing a recognition and certification system of the acquired competences significantly increases the success rate of the applications (80% success rate on 2021 applications).
Are you preparing a project idea for the next Erasmus+ call?
Do not miss the competence certification dimension and integrate EFCoCert in your future winning team! Convinced or just interested to investigate a bit further?
Real added value
The inclusion of Swiss organization in the partnership is relevant and justified by the fact that the EFCoCert Foundation is the only organization in Europe to develop European certification schemes in compliance with ISO 17024, having a unique experience and the necessary skills to create certification based on micro-credentials of competences. In this way, the participation of this organization constitutes an important added value for the project.
Pilot of the EFCoCert certification for sustainable practices in culinary VET centres
20 VET teachers participated to the pilot of the MOOC developed by the ECO-Tag consortium and the associated competence and good practices certification scheme developed by EFCoCert Foundation. The ECO_Tag Pilots have been carried out in the VET centres composing the consortium together with EFCoCert as competence certification expert. This allowed an international piloting of content with representation in Spain, Italy, Lithuania and Estonia. At least 4 VET teachers in each of the participating schools underwent the entire MOOC, trying out also the additional content developed by the consortium. [...]
