Definition

Ability to understand, speak, read and write language(s), to work with numbers and measures and use digital devices and applications.

Comment:

• Core skills and competences represent the foundation for interacting with others and for developing and learning as an individual;
  
  
• they are one of the six categories of transversal skills of ESCO:
• core skills and competences;
• thinking skills and competences;
• self-management skills and competences;
• social and communication skills and competences;
• physical and manual skills and competences;
• life skills and competences;
• core skills and competences consist of three clusters:
• mastering languages;
• working with numbers and measures;
• working with digital devices and applications;
• in the literature, core skills and competences are also referred to as basic skills;
  
  
• this term is close to, but not synonymous with: key competences.