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• Improve citizens’ information on national qualifications, as well as
facilitate and promote mobility.
• Support lifelong learning and correlate initial vocational training and

vocational training for employment, as well as improve access and
participation in this type of training, especially for people with disability.
• Facilitate the identification, validation and recognition of all types of
learning outcomes, including those related to non-formal and informal learning.
• Facilitate transition and progression between the different training
subsystems.
• Develop procedures for the recognition of non-formal learning.
• Reduce early school leaving.
The proposed framework has eight levels and the level descriptors, defined in
terms of knowledge, skills and competencies. It is inspired by the EQF for Lifelong

Learning level descriptors adapted to the national context.

Slovenia

The Slovenian Qualifications Framework Act, adopted in 2015, stipulates that
the Slovenian Qualifications Framework (SQF) is a tool for the development and
classification of qualifications into a unified system. The SQF includes three
categories of qualifications:

• Educational qualifications: the result of formal education and indicates the
level and field of formal education acquired by the individual. It is
evidenced by a public certificate of completed education.
• Vocational qualification: qualification obtained through the national
vocational qualification (NVQ) procedure, vocational and professional
training and further training programs and further study programs;
• Supplementary qualification: additional competences tied to the needs of
the labor market on levels 3 to 8.
The purpose of the SQF is to achieve transparency and comparability of
qualifications in Slovenia and the EU. Its basic goals are support lifelong learning,

connect and harmonize Slovenian qualifications subsystems and improve the
transparency, accessibility and quality of qualifications in relation to the labor
market and civil society.

Greece
The aim of the Hellenic Qualifications Framework (HQF) is to create a coherent

and comprehensive system of classification of all qualifications obtained from
formal, non-formal education and informal learning in Greece. This will be done

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