Ability to perform tasks and activities which require manual dexterity, agility or bodily strength.
Comment
- Physical and manual skills and competences may be carried out in demanding or hazardous environments requiring endurance or stamina. The tasks and activities associated with these skills and competences may be carried out by hand, with other direct physical intervention, or by using equipment, tools or technology which requires guidance, movement or force, such as digital devices, machinery, craft or musical instruments;
- physical and manual skills and competences consist of two clusters:
- manipulating and controlling objects and equipment;
- responding to physical circumstances;
- 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.