This has been tested in different EU languages to showcase  the potential of ESCO  in bridging  the labour market and the world of education and training.

Five Member States participated in the project (Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovenia), and tested an approach combining automation and human intervention on qualifications from different EQF levels and covering both higher education and VET.

For the purpose of the project, the Commission developed an IT tool based on Natural Language Processing that provides automatic suggestions of ESCO skills against the learning outcomes of selected qualifications, in different EU languages.

The project demonstrated how the ESCO vocabulary can be used to provide transparency of information on qualifications and to enrich the descriptions of educational curricula. It also showed that an automated approach based on the use of artificial intelligence can reduce the costs and resources needed to perform such linking, thus reducing the effort for national authorities. To learn more about the results of the pilot, please take a look at this link.

A second phase of the pilot project will take place during the course of 2020.