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The European e-Competence Framework
The e-Competence Framework, is a tool to describe the skills of professionals in ICT-related roles.The e-CF is a reference for job and role descriptions, skill development, training and education.The framework has been developed by a large number of European ICT and HR experts in the context of the CEN Workshop on ICT Skills.The European e-Competence Framework is structured from four dimensions. These dimensions reflect different levels of business and human resource planning requirements in addition to job/ work proficiency guidelines.
The four dimensions of the e-CF are specified as follows:
- Dimension 1: 5 e-Competence areas, derived from the ICT business processes:
PLAN – BUILD – RUN – ENABLE – MANAGE - Dimension 2: A set of reference e-Competences for each area, with a generic description for each competence. 36 competences identified in total provide the European generic reference definitions of the e-CF 2.0.
- Dimension 3: Proficiency levels of each e-Competence provide European reference level specifications on e-Competence levels e-1 to e-5, which are related to the EQF levels 3 to 8.
- Dimension 4: Samples of knowledge and skills relate to e-Competences in dimension 2. They are provided to add value and context and are not intended to be exhaustive.
The 40 e-competencies of the e-CF
Click on the competency code in the list for the full description.
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Dimension 1 e-competence area |
Plan |
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Dimension 2 e-Competence: Title + generic description |
A.9 Innovating Devises creative solutions for the provision of new concepts, ideas, products or services. Deploys novel and open thinking to envision exploitation of technological advances to address business/ society needs or research direction. |
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Dimension 3 e-Competence proficiency levels (on e-CF levels e-1 to e-5, related to EQF levels 3 to 8 |
Level 4 Applies independent thinking and technology awareness to lead the integration of disparate concepts for the provision of unique solutions. Level 5 Challenges the status quo and provides strategic leadership for the introduction of revolutionary concepts. |
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| Knowledge examples | Knows/ Aware of/ Familiar with: - K1 existing and emerging technologies and market applications - K2 business, society and/ or research habits, trends and needs - K3 innovation processes techniques |
| Skills examples | Able to: - S1 identify business advantages and improvements of adopting emerging technologies - S2 create a proof of concept - S3 think out of the box - S4 identify appropriate resources |