A European language for ICT qualifications and competencies
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovation is the cause of fundamental changes in all fields, with a particularly strong impact on ICT jobs, job profiles, education and training.
In a global environment, the European ICT sector urgently requires common standards for describing ICT competencies, job profiles and qualification offers.
ICT vendor and user companies, trade unions, training institutes, labour market agencies, HR managers and ICT practitioners need Europe-wide agreed and accepted references for ensuring efficient and competitive communication skills.
ICT Lane aim: A common European ICT qualifications framework
Within the ICT Lane initiative, European experts of ICT, ICT qualification and training develop and experiment a sector-specific implementation of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
The definition of description standards will make national and other ICT qualification offers (both independent and ICT vendor industry certificates) internationally transparent and understandable as well, which enables all end-users to compare them in terms of individual needs and quality. The common European framework will be tested with a pilot software, the ICT Lane Tool.
The European context
ICT Lane activities are closely linked to other relevant initiatives on the European and sectoral levels, such as the forthcoming European e-Competence Framework.
ICT Lane work takes place within a Leonarda da Vinci co-funded project. The ICT Lane results will be ready for use and further implementation by March 2008.
