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EUROGUIDANCE - EU MAIN PORTAL
LÉARGAS
Léargas manage international and national exchange programmes in education, youth and community work, and vocational education and training.
EUROPASS
An initiative which aims to help you make your skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood in Europe - whether you are enrolling in an education or training programme, looking for a job, or getting experience abroad.
NARIC
NARIC Ireland provides advice on the academic recognition of a foreign qualification by comparing it, where possible, to a major award type and level on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ)
NATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF QUALIFICATIONS
Qualifications frameworks describe the qualifications of an education and training system and how they interlink. National qualifications frameworks describe what learners should know, understand and be able to do on the basis of a given qualification.
QQI
Quality and Qualifications Ireland is an independent State agency responsible for promoting quality and accountability in education and training services in Ireland.
QUALIFAX
Qualifax is Ireland’s National Learners’ Database. It is the "one stop shop" for learners. It provides the most comprehensive information on further and higher education and training courses.
EUROPEAN QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK
The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is a translation tool that helps communication and comparison between qualifications systems in Europe.
ACADEMIA
Exchange programme for Guidance Counsellors
ERIC
Educational Resources Information Centre
EURES - EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
Aims to facilitate the free movement of workers within the 17 countries of the European Economic Area
PLOTEUS
Learning Opportunities and Qualifications in Europe
eTwinning
The community for schools in Europe
SCHOOL EDUCATION GATEWAY
Europe's online platform for school education
ESOL
Migrants and new community members in Ireland come from a wide range of cultural, linguistic, educational and social backgrounds; coordinated by NALA, ESOL is English for Speakers of Other Languages. ESOL focuses on English language development for students.
ELPGN
The European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, ELGPN was established in 2007, with the aim of assisting its member-countries and the European Commission in developing European co-operation on lifelong guidance in both the education and the employment sectors.
CEDEFOP
Cedefop supports development of European vocational education and training (VET) policies and contributes to their implementation. The agency is helping the European Commission, EU Member States and the social partners to develop the right European VET policies