Using ECVET to Support Lifelong Learning

Part III complements the series of guidance documents and explanatory notes (Parts I & II) which constitute the ECVET Users’ Guide. It presents the possibilities of how ECVET could be used to support the recognition of learning outcomes in a lifelong learning perspective:

• Why is ECVET relevant for lifelong learning policies
• (Non-)Formal learning while working using ECVET
• ECVET and learners’ change of pathways
• ECVET to facilitate updating workers’ qualifications
• ECVET and validation of non-formal and informal learning
• ECVET and recognition between different qualification systems and levels