Ability to understand, speak, read and write language(s), to work with numbers and measures and use digital devices and applications.
Comment
- Core skills and competences represent the foundation for interacting with others and for developing and learning as an individual;
- 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;
- core skills and competences consist of three clusters:
- mastering languages;
- working with numbers and measures;
- working with digital devices and applications;
- in the literature, core skills and competences are also referred to as basic skills;
- this term is close to, but not synonymous with: key competences.
Source
European Commission and Cedefop, 2021a.