Beyond borders: Advancing frameworks for skills recognition

This session examines how skills recognition frameworks can support cross-border mobility, lifelong learning, and labour-market relevance. The discussion is situated within the broader shift towards skills-first approaches that are reshaping how skills are valued, signalled, and rewarded in labour markets globally. It explores how national and international competency frameworks and standards serve as an overarching architecture linking qualifications systems, skills taxonomies, digital and micro-credentials, and private sector engagement, and highlights emerging and established models for cross-border apprenticeship mobility and work-based learning.