AN ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO COMPETENCY MANAGEMENT

Competency management is a very important part of a well-functioning organisation especially when considering individual long-term development planning and organisational learning. Unfortunately competency descriptions are not uniformly specified nor defined across boarders: National, sectorial or organisational, leading to an opaque competency description market with a multitude of competency frameworks and competency benchmarks. The aim of the Leonardo sponsored project TRACE (TRAnsparent Competence in Europe) is to enable transparency between European competency frameworks that will include the use of an individualised common description language. This description will be based on a ontological competency description which will add semantic value to any description which has references to or bindings with it.

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