The EQF is a common European reference framework which links countries' qualifications systems together, acting as a translation device to make qualifications more readable and understandable across different countries and systems in Europe. It has two principal
aims: to promote citizens' mobility between countries and to facilitate their lifelong learning.
The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) acts as a translation device to make national qualifications more readable across Europe, promoting workers' and learners' mobility between countries and facilitating their lifelong learning.
The European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF) provides a common reference framework which assists in comparing the national qualifications systems, frameworks and their levels. It serves as a translation device to make qualifications more readable and understandable across different countries and systems in Europe, and thus promote lifelong and life-wide learning, and the mobility of European citizens whether for studying or working abroad.
Greining menntunarþarfa1 hefur frá upphafi verið ein af grunnstoðunum í starfsemi Fræðslumiðstöðvar
atvinnulífsins (FA) og á slíkum greiningum byggist námshönnun og námsskrárritun.
Í fyrsta þjónustusamningi FA og mennta- og menningarmálaráðuneytisins er kveðið
á um að Fræðslumiðstöðin eigi að „skilgreina menntunarþarfir markhópa og byggja upp
framboð á lengra og styttra námi til að mæta þeim þörfum„ (Þjónustusamningur milli FA og
mrn, apríl 2003) og hafa ákvæði þessu lík verið í öllum þjónustusamningum þessara aðila
síðan.