EU Common Training Frameworks – Which Professions Have the Potential?
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Strengthening the EU-wide portability of skills and qualifications can promote cross-border mobility, address skills shortages, and reinforce the internal market. The Skills Portability Initiative (SPI) of the European Commission seeks legislative and technical solutions to achieve these goals.
Within this context, Spark Legal and Policy Consulting, together with 3s, is conducting a study. The aim is to identify professions for which the extension of automatic recognition through Common Training Frameworks (CTFs) within the framework of EU Directive 2005/36 on the recognition of professional qualifications may be considered.
The study will specifically examine the following aspects:
- the regulatory landscape of professions across Member States;
- the presence of labour-market needs and skills shortages across Europe, in order to identify professions where enhanced mobility could provide added value;
- the feasibility of developing a CTF for the selected professions, based on the presence of shared core knowledge, skills, and competences;
- the specific components that a potential CTF could comprise.
The study includes desk research of EU-level and national documents, as well as a comprehensive consultation of relevant stakeholders. 3s is involved in all project tasks, particularly in the selection of potential professions for CTF development and in the analysis of the potential impacts of a CTF for these professions.
Project: Study supporting the identification of professions for the extension of automatic recognition through common training frameworks under Directive 2005/36/EC
Contact: Monika Auzinger
Client: European Commission DG EMPL
Duration: 12/2025-07/2026
