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66 Domains

Definitions

Training domains

Training domains families

A

Accreditation of an education or training provider
Adaptability
Adult apprenticeship
Adult training
Agriculture and plant production^*
Agriculture, Agri-food^**
Agri-food^*
Art^*
Arts and Crafts^*
Asbl
Audiovisual and multimedia^*

B

Banking and insurance^*
Basic information and communication technology (ICT) skills
Basic skills
Basic vocational training

C

Certificate
Certification of learning outcomes
Chemistry^*
CNFPC
Communication and Information^*
Communication, multimedia^**
Company management^*
Company management, Human resources^**
Comparability of qualifications
Computer language^*
Computer science and Information Systems^*
Computer science, Telecommunications^**
Construction and repairs in mechanics^*
Construction finishings^*
Construction structural works^*
Construction, Environment, Energy^**
Continuing education and training
Continuing vocational training
Crafts Art^**
Custom-made training

D

Design and organisation of public works and buildings^*
Digital literacy
Diploma
Distance education
Distance training

E

Earth sciences^*
Economics^*
ECTS - European credit transfer and accumulation system
ECVET - European credit system for vocational education and training
Education or training path
Education or training provider
Electrical engineering^*
Electricity^*
Electronics^*
Employability
Encadrement Management^*
Energy^*
Environment Planning^*
Environmental engineering^*
Europass
European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET)
European qualification framework for lifelong learning (EQF)
Evaluation of education and training

F

Families of training domains
Finance, Insurance, Law^**
Financial management Accounting^*
Fish farming^*
Formal learning
Foundation
FPC

G

Gestion organisations^*
Graphics and printing industry^*
Guidance throughout life

H

Handling^*
Health, Social action^**
Hotel and food service industries^*
Human resources^*
Humanities^*

I

Industrial automatism^*
Industrial engineering^*
Industrial quality^*
Informal learning
Information and communication technology (ICT) skills
Information, advice and guidance (IAC)
INFPC
Initial training
Initial vocational training
Institutional training bodies
International trade^*

J

K

Key competences
Know-how
Knowledge
Knowledge society

L

Languages^*
Languages^**
Law^*
Learning
Learning content
Learning outcomes / learning attainments
Leather hides^*
Lifelong learning
Lifelong learning
Lifewide learning
Lisbon strategy
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M

Management of a continuing vocational training body
Marketing^*
Mathematics^*
Mechanics, Electrical engineering, Automatisms^**
Medicine^*
MENJE
Mobility

N

Natural sciences^*

O

Off-the-job training
Off-the-shelf inter-company training
Off-the-shelf intra-company training
Off-the-shelf-training
On-the-job training
Open learning

P

Personal and professional development ^**
Personal and professional development^*
Physical activity and sports^*
Physics^*
Political science^*
Private training bodies
Processing of materials and production management^**
Programme of education or training
Psychology^*
Public Works^*

Q

Qualification
Quality assurance in education and training
Quality audit
Quality Security^**
Quality system

R

Recognition of learning outcomes

S

Sales management Purchase^*
Sandwich training
Sciences, Social and human sciences^**
Secretarial and assistantship^*
Sector-specific training bodies
Skill
Skill
Skills audit
Social action^*
Software^*
Supplier-trainer

T

Tax law^*
Telecommunications^*
Textiles^*
The financial investment in training rate (taux de participation financière à la formation - TPF)
Theoretical mechanics^*
Title
Total wage bill
Tourism^*
Trade, Sale, Horeca^**
Trainer
Training and education consulting^*
Training course planning and design
Training effort
Training leading to a certificate
Training leading to a diploma
Training of trainers
Training plan
Training project
Transport^*
Transport, Handling^**

U

V

Validation of non-formal and informal learning
Vocational training for career change

W

Work with materials^*

X

Y

Z

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