One of the most important elements of the Integrated Qualifications System is the ability to formally confirm that a person actually has the competences of a given qualification. This confirmation process is called “validation” in the terminology of the IQS. Its most important premise is that it does not matter how or where we acquire our knowledge, skills and social competences − at school, at university, at work, during training, or learning at home, but what matters is what we know and are able to do.