How can a qualification be linked to the skills and knowledge it represents?

The new ESCO Open Access Mapping Tool helps users identify relevant ESCO skills and knowledge concepts from qualification descriptions and learning outcomes.

Enter or paste a qualification description or its learning outcomes, and the tool generates suggestions for relevant ESCO concepts. Users can then review the suggestions and select the concepts that best match their qualification. This keeps control of the mapping process while providing a useful starting point for identifying relevant ESCO terminology.

The tool can support education and training providers, learners, employers and other stakeholders in connecting qualifications with the skills they represent. Using a common European skills terminology can also make qualifications easier to understand and compare across education and employment contexts.

How the tool works

Getting started is simple:

1. Choose your language.
2. Enter or paste your qualification description or learning outcomes.
3. Submit the text to the tool.
4. Explore the suggested ESCO skills and knowledge concepts.
5. Review and select the concepts that best match your qualification.
6. Download the result

The tool uses AI to analyse the text and generate relevant ESCO concepts. As the suggestions are generated automatically, users should review them and select only those that accurately reflect the qualification.

Why use the tool?

Qualifications describe what people have learned. Mapping their learning outcomes to ESCO skills and knowledge concepts helps make these learning outcomes easier to communicate and understand. By using a common European skills terminology, the tool can help strengthen connections between education, training and the labour market and support more consistent descriptions of the skills and knowledge acquired through learning.

Try the tool

Have you got a qualification or set of learning outcomes you would like to explore?

Use the ESCO Open Access Mapping Tool to generate relevant skills and knowledge suggestions, then review and select the concepts that best represent your qualification.