EQF-Code - European Qualification Framework (en cours)

European Qualification Framework http://www.ubique.org/eqfcode/ http://eqfcode.blogspot.com/

Rationale of this project is the continuously growing skills shortage in the Multimedia sector in several European countries (e.g. Germany, Hungary, Switzerland), which specially affects the field of content development (e-game development/ e-learning content and Multimedia content development). This skills shortage could be overcome by employing practitioners from other European member states. However, this is hampered by the lack of transparency and comparability of qualifications for these professions at European level, due to the great diversity of vocational training systems across Europe. Currently, the vocational training for content developers varies exceedingly between the EU member states in duration, content and complexity. Hence content developers across Europe show very different competence and skill profiles, although they often hold quite similar job or qualification titles. The main objectives of the project are therefore: 1. Analysing the current qualification profiles in the field of content development and describing them by learning outcomes. 2. Referring the determined qualification profiles to the EQF to the national sectoral qualification frameworks and the qualification frameworks developed at European level by using approaches developed in the previous projects "CompTrain" and "Embedding standards". 3. Determine a comprehensive European qualification profile for content developers, and 4. based on this "ideal profile" develop reference material for entreprises and guidelines for training institutions so that they can adapt their training offers in the field of content development accordingly.