Integrating Transversal Competences in the European Policy Strategies

Personal, emotional, social and communication competences, also called transversal competences are gaining more and more attention from policy-makers, employers and education professionals.   But how can transversal competences be included in the policy strategies at a regional, national and European level? Aljosja Yoshi Ziga on behalf of NVL was at the European Policy Conference in Stockholm and interviewed Eduard Staudecker, Head of Department, VET Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Helen Myslek, Head of School and Working Life at the Swedish National Agency for Education. NVL recorded a podcast from the final conference of the project TRANSVAL-EU. During the conference, researchers and practitioners shared their work on the validation of non-formal competencies.