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II. Requirements of National Qualification
Frameworks
Within the Environmental change project, partners collected a brief overview
of the experiences of five European countries that are at different stages of NQF
implementation: Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia and Greece. These
descriptions are presented in reports prepared by each Environmental Change
project partner. The analysis of the national solutions presented here made it
possible within the Environmental Change Project to identify the possibility of
including informal sectoral qualifications in National Qualification Framework
(NQF)-based systems in each country. It also made it possible to compare the
European Qualification Framework (EQF) with the various NQFs of the project
partners. Even though the experiences of each country are quite different, the
short reports refer to the same set of themes by using the same structure, as
follows:
Chapter 1. National Qualifications Framework – Specific requirements.
Chapter 2. Links between the National Qualification Framework and the
European Qualification Framework.
Chapter 3. Procedures of the Including Qualifications in the National
Qualification Framework.
The main catalyst for the development of a comprehensive NQF in Europe, was
the EQF (EQF). Moreover, the development of the NQF in Europe also reflects
the Bologna Process and the agreement to implement the Qualifications
Framework in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). All the partner
countries have joined the Bologna Process. In the course of implementing the
Bologna Process, all the partner countries have developed NQFs compatible
with the EQF, which provide essential information on qualifications undergoing
recognition.
The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an
endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot
be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
