Promoting “Re-skilling” and “Up-skilling” processes in working contexts: the Ecvet instrument

Abstract

According to the Future of Jobs Report, World Economic Forum, (2016), we are experiencing a social, economic and productive transformation that involves every human activity and is leading the relationships between professions and professional roles to take on new paths, as well as demanding new skills and "complex" ways of thinking from organizations and workers themselves. To guide this change, it is essential to support people through processes of skills enhancement and training so that they can remain competitive in the labor market and ensure decent living conditions. Based on these premises, this article intends to give an overview of the ECVET instrument (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training), a European credit system for vocational education and training that aims to promote the employability of people from European Union countries. On the other hand, it asks whether the conditions that made it possible to adopt this instrument in Europe could be transferred to other labor, social and economic contexts, or rather to those belonging to the Pacific Alliance Countries currently participating in a specific transnational project called EMPLE-AP.