Qualifications Registers in selected European Union Countries

Achieving satisfaction in professional life often depends on our readiness to acquire new competences. What counts in the labour market are the skills and knowledge that we have acquired at all ages, even after graduation from school or university. There are many ways to learn. We develop our potential while performing our duties at work, household activities or actions related to our hobby. Newly acquired competences enrich our lives and open the path to new jobs, sometimes in a completely different industry.

This new approach to the acquisition of knowledge and experience requires changes in the whole sphere of qualifications – crucial from the point of view of the economy. The modernisation of the qualifications system in Poland results from the needs of the national labour market and education system and is in line with the European Union policy for lifelong learning.

In order to support lifelong learning, the Integrated Qualifications System has been implemented in Poland since 2016.
The aim of the system is to assure the quality of the awarded qualifications, regardless of how the skills corresponding to those qualifications were acquired.

All the qualifications included in the Integrated Qualification System are entered into the Integrated Qualifications Register (IQR). This means that they meet the required quality assurance standards and are correctly described. IQR is a database of qualifications that can be used by all interested parties.