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III. ESCO

ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the
European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations.

ESCO works as a dictionary, describing, identifying and classifying professional
occupations and skills relevant for the EU labour market and education and
training. Those concepts and the relationships between them can be
understood by electronic systems, which allows different online platforms to use
ESCO for services like matching jobseekers to jobs on the basis of their skills,
suggesting trainings to people who want to reskill or upskill etc.

ESCO provides descriptions of 2942 occupations and 13.485 skills linked to these
occupations, translated into 27 languages (all official EU languages plus

Icelandic, Norwegian and Arabic).

The aim of ESCO is to support job mobility across Europe and therefore a more
integrated and efficient labour market, by offering a “common language” on
occupations and skills that can be used by different stakeholders on
employment and education and training topics.

ESCO is a European Commission project, run by Directorate General

Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL). It is available in an online
portal and can be consulted free of charge. Its first full version (ESCO v1) was
published on the 28th of July 2017. The latest version of the classification can be
downloaded or retrieved through the ESCO API.

At the moment, looking at the ESCO Database, there is not a specific VET
providers specialized in the development, implementation and Validation of
concept circular economy for start-uppers, in spite of the fact that it is an
occupational profile that companies need to successfully implement these

concept in an integrated manner. The qualifications currently available relates
only to the contents and requirements of the norms.

The Environmental change project introduces a modular competency-based
framework enhanced by subsets of defined learning outcomes. The learning

outcomes have been formulated after analyzing the data available on the
ESCO platform (Commission, n.d.). It is based on the EQF and ECVET framework,
considering the National Qualifications Framework. In terms of EQF, the project

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.