Competences

It is essential for organisations to understand different levels of professional competences to recruit and develop suitable employees. To this end, the e-Competence Framework (e-CF) defines the skills of IT professionals.

Projects on User Support and e-Indicators and Common Metrics are ongoing. Please see below for more details:

Project	“e-CF” User support
Objective	Increased usage of the e-CF User Support standard should help tap the unexploited potential of the services sector for the EU economy by improving the performance and quality of the services, ensuring interoperability and facilitating cooperation among economic operators.
Expert Team	Jutta Breyer (Project Lead) – Terry Hook – Cleo Sgouropoulou – Irmhild Rogalla – Luis Fernandez
Project Duration	26 months (started: 1st January 2019)

Project	e-Indicators and Common Metrics
Objective	The project focuses on recognition and validation of e-competences acquired by experience (non-formal, informal learning), beyond any educational background
Expert Team	Rocco Defina (Project Lead) – Irmhild Rogalla – Luis Fernandez – Wilfried Berlin – Frederic Lau – Sergio Ruffini
Project Duration	32 months (started: 1st May 2019)

ITPE members are regularly updated on its progress, along with all other initiatives of this workgroup.

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Resources related to Competences:

• European Qualifications Framework
• e-CF EN 16234-1 standard (The Framework)
• e-CF EN 16234-1 standard (User guidelines)
• European ICT professionals role profiles – Part 1: 30 ICT profiles
• European ICT professional role profiles – Part 2: User guide
• European ICT professional role profiles – Part 3: Methodology documentation
• European ICT professional role profiles – Part 4: Case studies