The Europass CV and the Europass Web portal

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• The Europass CV and the Europass Web portal
• Philippe Tissot, Cedefop

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Introduction The rationale behind the Europass
CV

• Mid 1980 attempt to set up an European system
  of mutual recognition of qualifications to
  promote mobility of citizens
• Creation of common levels of qualifications
• Mutual recognition achieved only for a small
  number of (mainly) regulated profession
• Mid 1990 shift towards the transparency approach

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1998-2002 The European Forum on transparency of
vocational qualifications (1)

• What A WG created by the European Commission and
  Cedefop
• Who Representatives of EC, Cedefop and 15 Member
  States
• Mandate find tools to increase transparency of
  qualifications and competences and support
  mobility of citizens

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The European Forum on transparency of vocational
qualifications (2)

• Achievements
• The European CV, a common model on which agreed
  the national delegations
• The Certificate supplement, a description of
  skills acquired by holders of VET certificates
• A network of National reference points (NRP) to
  support the implementation of above tools

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Europass a step ahead

• A one-stop shop for existing European
  transparency instruments
• The CV, the Certificate supplement
• The Language Passport (Council of Europe)
• The Europass Mobility (ex Europass-training)
• The Diploma Supplement (higher education)
• Europass decision adopted in Dec. 2004

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Structure of the Europass CV (1)

• Page one
• Personal information
• Desired employment
• Work experience
• Education and training
• /

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Structure of the Europass CV (2)

• Page two Personal skills and competences
• Language skills (self assessment grid)
• Social, organisational, technical, computer
  artistic and other skills
• Additional information and annexes

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Added value of the Europass CV

• Available electronically in 25 languages
• Leaves room for skills acquire in non formal
  settings
• Integrates the language self-assessment grid
  developed by the Council of Europe
• Can be completed on-line with instructions
• Can be saved in editable (including XML) and non
  editable formats and/or updated online
• Is complementary to the other Europass
  instruments

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The Europass Website - CV

• A multilingual website to support the
  implementation of the Europass instruments
• Added value for citizens
• Access to templates (CS, DS and EM)
• Direct access to CV to be filled in online
• Can be saved in various formats
• Can be updated

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The Europass website in briefhttp//europass.cede
fop.eu.int

• Statistics
• 2,500,000 European CV downloaded between 2002 and
  2004
• Templates already available in more than 20
  languages
• Website already available in 11 languages
• More than 1,3 million visitors since launch in
  February 2005 (ca 5000 visitors daily)
• 200 000 CV filled in online or downloaded in 8
  months

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More information

• http//europass.cedefop.eu.int
• European Commission
• Carlo Scatoli (carlo.scatoli_at_cec.eu.int)
• Cedefop
• Philippe Tissot (pht_at_cedefop.eu.int)