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The ESCO Skills Pillar makes use of content published by the European Commission on europa.eu. More information is available here.

Unless otherwise indicated, content owned by the EU on the Europa website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

The ESCO skill hierarchy is partially based on elements of the existing classification of O*Net and the Canadian skill and knowledge glossary. For more information click here.

O*NET OnLine is provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

The Skills and Knowledge Checklist is provided by the Government of Canada. The Government of Canada is currently developing frameworks and products to better define and describe competencies, of which the Skills and Competencies Taxonomy is the first publicly available piece.

The ESCO Transversal skills hierarchy is based on the review of existing literature including:

Ziegler, M. (2016). The Great 8 Tachometer - Manual and technical report. Berlin, Germany: The ROC Institute GmbH.
Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Kompetenz- und Berufekarten provided by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The cards are published by Bertelsmann Stiftung, have been developed together with the Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung (f-bb) with illustrations made by Anne Lehmann. The work is licensed under the CC BY SA 4.0 license.
OECD 2014, Competency Framework, https://www.oecd.org/careers/competency_framework_en.pdf.
Martin, J. (2018), "Skills for the 21st century: Findings and policy lessons from the OECD survey of adult skills", OECD Education Working Papers, No. 166, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/96e69229-en.
OECD (2012), Literacy, Numeracy and Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments: Framework for the OECD Survey of Adult Skills, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264128859-en.
John Martin, 2018, IZA Policy Paper No. 138 JANUARY 2018 Skills for the 21st Century: Findings and Policy Lessons from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills,
O*NET OnLine is provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA
Kompetenzenkatalog der BA, 2015, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, DKZ download portal: a product from the Federal Employment Agency of Germany.
Taxonomy of Competences from the "BerufsInformationsSystem", 2020, Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (PES Austria)