Ability to process and use knowledge and information which has transversal significance and facilitates active citizenship.
Comment
- Life skills and competences cover aspects such as health, culture, finance and economics, science and technology, the environment and civic engagement;
- they allow individuals to manage knowledge and information and use it as a basis for forming opinions, making decisions and taking actions in relation to both personal/professional progression and social responsibility;
- life skills and competences consist of six clusters:
- applying entrepreneurial and financial skills and competences;
- applying health-related skills and competences;
- applying cultural skills and competences;
- applying civic skills and competences;
- applying general knowledge;
- applying environmental skills and competences;
- they are one of the six categories of transversal skills of ESCO:
- core skills and competences;
- thinking skills and competences;
- self-management skills and competences;
- social and communication skills and competences;
- physical and manual skills and competences;
- life skills and competences.
Source
European Commission and Cedefop, 2021.