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3. Procedure for Including Qualifications in the

National Qualification Framework

Each Environmental Change project partner country has a different procedure
for including qualifications in the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
Despite having all the NQF based on the EQF, there is a different expansion and
addition of new qualifications. It follows from the experiences of individual

countries, history, standards and regulations. Some countries, such as Spain, for
example, have not yet completed the process of unifying the qualifications
framework. The following describes how the inclusion process works in each
partner country:

Poland
A qualification may be included in the Integrated Qualifications System (IQS) at
the request of entities that conduct organized activity in the area of: economy,

labour market, education or training. It can be, for example, a trading
company, an organization of entrepreneurs from a given industry, an
association of producers, a sports association or an association of training
companies.
The electronic application is submitted via the Integrated Qualifications
Register (IQR) at the following website: http://rejestr.kwalifikacje.gov.pl/.
This publicly available Register includes all qualifications in the IQS – those
awarded in the formal general, vocational and higher education systems,
regulated qualifications and market qualifications. An application should
contain a detailed description of the qualification, i.e., learning outcomes that

the person who wants to obtain the qualification should have and conditions
that should be met by the entity wishing to award it. It contains a justification
why the qualification is needed, a description of the need for it and the
possibility of its use.
The minister will check that the qualification is of the right quality and if it is
needed, afterwards including it in the IQS and entering it into the IQR with a
defined PQF level. Qualifications included in the IQS are entered in the IQR
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regardless of whether they appear in other registers (catalogues, lists)

maintained by individual ministries, industries, communities and institutions.
Qualifications that are not included in the IQS cannot be entered in the
Register. Information on the listed qualifications is regularly updated.

3 https://kwalifikacje.edu.pl/baza-wiedzy/dzialaj-w-zsk/wlaczanie-kwalifikacji/

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