Given training’s central role as a key tool for developing staff knowledge, skills and capabilities, developing training plans to boost the key transversal (soft) skills of all employees, as well as the managerial competencies of executives, who aim to implement effective leadership in managing teams both on-site and remotely.
The online catalog “Soft & Life skills” PA360 è is aligned with the main European and international guidelines on training on transversal skills of employees and private and public managers such as, for example, the LifeComp EU (European Framework of Transversal Skills) and the UN, OECD and WHO Guidelines.
1. Decision (EU) 2023/936 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 (2023: European Year of Skills).
The EU's goals focus on enhancing lifelong learning, employability, and career advancement, implementing sustainable lifelong learning systems; encouraging employers to invest in their workers' skills development; and improving the recognition of acquired skills and competences. Initiatives include both online and in‑person conferences.
2. EPSO - European Personnel Selection Office (Competency Framework 2023).
With the 2023 Skills Framework, the EPSO has outlined the new skills framework that defines the essential skills to effectively perform a specific job in the EU institutions and provides transparent information for the selection process, clarifying the qualities expected of candidates during relevant competition tests.
3. Joint Research Center - European Commission, 2020 (LifeComp: The European Framework for Personal, Social and Learning to Learn Key Competence) - LifeComp: European framework for Transversal Competences
4. EU Council Recommendation 2018 (European framework for key competencies for lifelong learning).
5. EU Council Recommendation of 2006 (European Framework for Key Competences for Lifelong Learning).
1. World Economic Forum (Soft skills most requested in the job market – 2025)
2. United Nations (2023 Agenda for Sustainable Development - UN 2015)
3. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( Soft skills - OCSE 2005)
4. World Health Organization ( Soft skills for life - OMS 1993)