Project Objectives

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The COCAL (“Competency based content acquisition and learning”) project aims to address the upskilling needs of the banking sector, by developing, applying and validating a holistic approach for the combined management of competencies and learning resources. The project’s principal objective is to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of VET services in the sector, namely by:

  • increasing the capacity of vocational training organisations to deliver “just-in-time”, quality services,tailored to the needs of the individual learner.
  • allowing for the better use of available learning resources and exploiting open content repositories Competencies are pivotal to the COCAL approach for shaping efficient VET services and for increasing Time2Competence.

COCAL will develop a central and commonly used reference model for competencies, as the basis for interoperability between and exchange of competence data, which will be extended to also cover learning content and facilitate competency-based content acquisition and learning. Overall, the project sets to:

  • improve competency modeling in the banking sector, by better aligning business requirements and competencies
  • create a competencies framework matching the requirements of the sector
  • align business roles with people and their learning processes
  • promote innovative ways for content creation, linked to and driven by competency management and pedagogical approaches
  • promote the exploitation of open content through competencies-based content federation
  • link training to performance appraisals. Performance results will serve as indicators of the learning content’s quality.

The COCAL project is co-funded by the Education & Learning DG of the European Commission under the Life Long Learning programme, Leonardo da Vinci (Transfer of Innovation).

Starting date: 1/10/2010

End date: 30/09/2012

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.