Making Europe “the most competitive global economy based on knowledge”, goal of Lisbon to be achieved in 2010 is one of the prior axes for which the different politicians of the Union have been working for several years. The Community, thanks to the cultural and economic diversity of its members, presents an incomparable richness in terms of formation systems, especially of vocational training. This richness, which is a strong lever to create this Europe of knowledge, also creates opacity, a shield between different systems with diverse accesses and careers. Direct consequence: it is difficult to compare the ways of formation proposed in the different states and thus to put to work a real mobility on the work market of the Community.

In coherence with the will to create a united European space consisting of common values and practices, the SQUARES project contributes to facilitate this process by improving the transparency and thus the comparability of the systems of vocational education in the different member states.

A manner to achieve this goal consists of comparing in European countries vocational and higher education, namely the Bachelor degrees. In France CEFORALP contributes to the project by comparing learning outcomes in vocational training on a secondary level to learning outcomes of the Licence, a diploma which was itself the object of a European harmonisation in the framework of the LMD reform (and of the Bologna process).

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