Priorities

The main priorities for the Copenhagen Process are to:

• Strengthen the European dimension in vocational education and training in order to facilitate and promote mobility and to develop inter-institutional cooperation, partnerships,
• Implement and rationalise information tools and networks by integration of existing instruments (European CV, certificate and diploma supplement, Europass training, European Language portfolio,...) into a single framework
• Strengthen policies, systems and practices that support information, guidance and counselling, at all levels of education, training and employment, particularly on issues concerning access and transferability and recognition of competences and qualifications.
• Investigate how transparency, comparability, transferability and recognition (the 4 key words) of competences and/or qualifications could be promoted by developing reference levels, common principles for certification, common measures, ( for example credit transfer system), national reference points giving access to information on the vocational education and training system
• Increase support to the development of competences and qualifications at sectoral level
• Define a set of common principles regarding validation of non-formal and informal learning in order to ensure greater comparability between approaches in different countries at different levels
• Promote cooperation in quality assurance: exchange of models and methods
• Give attention to the learning needs of teachers and trainers