BASICON - EUROPEAN BUILDING ESSENTIALS
European Standards for vocational training in construction

The structural changes in the construction sector bring about new qualification requirements across Europe. Worker employability increasingly depends on which technical skills one is able to demonstrate and which key qualifications and social as well as language skills one possesses, to be able to take advantage of labour mobility in the EU, and to be able to adapt to national requirements in target countries.
 
On the other hand, companies working with multinational teams should have the right tools at their disposal that help to effectively assess the knowledge, skills and competences of an employee.
 
It is in the interest of the employee, as well as the employer, that the appropriate qualification process be developed. A further concern is the assessment, recognition and certification of previously acquired and not yet formally acknowledged vocational skills.
 
Given that existing vocational knowledge acquired outside the national vocational training system is not yet certified in a sufficiently clear nor transferable manner, the appropriate tools for this need to be designed.
In order to promote stable labour mobility and sustainable worker employability for disadvantaged target groups, curricula and qualification processes orientated around individual requirements need to be developed. These should offer on-the-job training and lifelong learning as well as the chance to make up recognised vocational certificates through further training.
 
 
 

The Leonardo da Vinci pilot projects
BASICON I and BASICON II

An initiative for a european-wide vocational training
started by Zukunftsbau GmbH Berlin