Mobility and transparency of vocational qualifications : an overview of studies on the tourism, chemical and healthcare sectors in Europe

These three studies form part of a Cedefop project on 'Transparency of vocational qualifications' initiated in 1998. 'Transparency' in the project title is a key concept and reflects the main aim of the work, which is to support the Member States and the European Commission in creating mechanisms for promoting transparency of qualifications. Transparency of qualifications is defined as 'the degree of visibility necessary to identify and compare the value and content of qualifications at sector as well as regional, national and international levels' and expresses the need to make vocational qualifications more visible throughout Europe. It is hoped the results will be used in different contexts and taken as a point of departure for further and deeper study of the relation between mobility and prerequisites for mobility.