MORAL - Key Skills Micro credentials: A Passport to Employment and Inclusion

MORAL (Jan 2024 - Dec 2026) aims to upskill employees at entry-level positions and to facilitate the access of long-term unemployed - youngsters, women and low-skilled adults - to the labour market through the development of a ‘Passport to Employment’ (PTE), consisting of a set of stackable micro-credentials related to 20 key skills - basic, transversal, vocational, digital, green, entrepreneurial, outlined in EU competence Frameworks (LifeComp, GreenComp, EntreComp, DigComp).

The Passport may be issued to learners - employees or potential employ­ees - who have successfully acquired all the 20 micro-credentials for the selected skills, delivered by MORAL and based on the EU principles for the design, development and issuance of micro-credentials, validated under ISO/IEC 17024 (European Digital Credentials for Learning).

Ongoing activities include, after focus groups and large-scale surveys with employers in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain, a pilot testing of micro-credentials within the target groups, the digital assessment of learners' competences for the acquisition of micro-credentials and the training of VET providers on the design and development of micro-credentials.

In addition, the project will promote the Passport to Employment and provide recommendations on the objectives and integration of micro-credentials within national qualification systems through workshops addressed to workers, VET providers, employers and employers' representatives and policy makers, to be held in the 5 EU countries.