For background information concerning the European Framework for Key Competences for Lifelong Learning please click below:

Key Competences for Lifelong Learning
Recommendation 2006/962/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning (2006)

Further information is available on the EU's EUR-LEX website: 

Improving competences for the 21st century: an agenda for European cooperation on schools
Communication of the European Commission to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the Economic and Social Commitee and to the Committee of the Regions (2008)

Key competences for a changing world
Communication of the European Commission to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the Economic and Social Commitee and to the Committee of the Regions (2008)

New skills for new jobs: action now
Report by Expert Group (2010)

For an overview of EU policy in this area, click here!