BASICON European Construction Essentials confronts the migration problem and its requirements and translates it into a practical concept that meets demand.
The tools developed in the international pilot project BASICON should respond to this problem in an appropriate and complex manner:
BASICON provides tools to be made available throughout Europe, that assess existing qualifications, that qualify and certify and that are able to compare and differentiate qualifications and skills, all of which is available in seven languages.
 
On a national level, BASICON should be understood as a complementary contribution to the current political endeavours for educational reform and reorganisation. BASICON is orientated towards jobs that require basic training across the occupational field, such as structural engineering and renovation work, and therewith incorporates an internationally relevant spectrum of functions. In the profile of requirements, it incorporates soft skills, technical skills and further skills that have up until now not been deemed necessary in national vocational profiles. The qualification process will be conceived in a way to improve worker employability amongst disadvantaged target groups and to encourage interest in further qualification (for example through further education).

BASICON‘s approach to the development of tools for basic qualification across the occupational field available in training centres and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe, was geared from the start to being constructive: when describing technical and personal skills, instead of concentrating on the individual differences and discrepancies in vocational training systems or the differing job profiles in the construction industry, one should be able to asess the common cross-skill requirements of auxiliary workers.