G u I d e L i n e s m a n u a L s a n d g u I d e L i n e s

Parliament and the Council in April 2008. 

The EQF aims to facilitate the mobility of students and workers within the EU in order to 

encourage the development of a mobile and flexible European workforce and to support 

lifelong learning. It enables learners, learning providers and employers to compare 

qualifications between different national systems. This helps increase mobility in the labour 

market within and between countries because it makes it easy to determine a person’s level 

of qualification and mobility improves the balance between demand and supply of knowledge 

and skills. 

Although the EQF can be a useful tool for describing learning programmes, its scope is 

mostly labour-market oriented and it is therefore not considered to be completely relevant for 

collecting statistical data on participation in education and training. To avoid adding extra 

complexity, there is deliberately no link established between the CLA and the EQF. 

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 Classification of learning activities (CLA) 

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Classification of learning activities 

– manual