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Training domains families
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Training domains
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A
Accreditation of an education or training programme
Accreditation of an education or training provider
Adaptability
Adult apprenticeship
Adult education and training / Adult learning
Adult education survey (AES)
Adult participation in education and training
Adult training
Agriculture and plant production
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Agriculture, Agri-food
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Agri-food
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Art
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Artificial intelligence (AI)
Arts and Crafts
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Asbl
Assessment of learning outcomes
Audiovisual and multimedia
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Awarding body
B
Banking and insurance
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Basic skills
Basic vocational training
Blended learning
C
Certificate
Certification of learning outcomes
Chemistry
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CNFPC
Common European framework of reference for languages (CEFR)
Communication and Information
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Communication, multimedia
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Company management
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Company management, Human resources
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Comparability of qualifications
Computer language
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Computer science and Information Systems
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Computer science, Telecommunications
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Construction and repairs in mechanics
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Construction finishings
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Construction structural works
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Construction, Environment, Energy
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Continuing education and training
Continuing vocational education and training (CVET)
Continuing vocational training
Continuing vocational training survey (CVTS)
Core skills and competences
Crafts Art
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Credit
Credit transfer / transfer of credits
Custom-made training
D
Design and organisation of public works and buildings
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Digital competence / digital skills
Digital credential
Digital transition / digitalisation
Diploma
Distance education
Distance learning
Distance training
E
Earth sciences
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Economics
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ECVET - European credit system for vocational education and training
Education and training planning and design
Education or training path
Education or training programme
Education or training provider
Electrical engineering
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Electricity
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Electronics
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Employability
Encadrement Management
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Energy
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Environment Planning
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Environmental engineering
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Equivalence of qualifications
Erasmus+
ESCO
Europass
Europass Mobility
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET)
European credit transfer and accumulation system (ECTS)
European education area
European qualifications framework for lifelong learning (EQF)
European qualifications framework for lifelong learning (EQF)
European quality assurance reference framework for vocational education and training (EQAVET)
European skills agenda
European skills index
European Skills/Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO)
Evaluation of education and training
F
Families of training domains
Finance, Insurance, Law
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Financial management Accounting
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Fish farming
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Flipped learning / inverted learning / reversed learning
Formal learning
Foundation
FPC
G
Gestion organisations
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Graphics and printing industry
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Green transition / transition to the green economy
H
Handling
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Health, Social action
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Hotel and food service industries
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Human capital
Human resources
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Humanities
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I
Identification of non-formal and informal learning
In-company training
Industrial automatism
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Industrial engineering
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Industrial quality
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Informal learning
Information and communication technology (ICT)
Information and communication technology skills / ICT skills
INFPC
Initial training
Initial vocational training
Institutional training bodies
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011
International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08)
International trade
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J
K
Key competences
Know-how
Knowledge
Knowledge society / knowledge-based society
L
Languages
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Languages
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Law
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Learning
Learning / training content
Learning objective
Learning outcome
Leather hides
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Level of qualification
Lifelong guidance
Lifelong learning
Lifewide learning
Lisbon strategy
Loi modifiée du 22 juin 1999
LTE
M
Management of a continuing vocational training body
Marketing
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Mathematics
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Mechanics, Electrical engineering, Automatisms
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Medicine
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MENJE
Mobility
Mutual recognition of qualifications
N
Natural sciences
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Non-formal learning
NOSL
O
Occupation
Off-the-job training
Off-the-shelf inter-company training
Off-the-shelf intra-company training
Off-the-shelf-training
Online learning / Web-based learning
On-the-job training
Open learning / self-paced learning
P
Partial qualification
Peer learning
Personal and professional development
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Personal and professional development
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Phygital learning
Physical activity and sports
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Physics
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Political science
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Presential learning / face-to-face learning / classroom learning
Private training bodies
Processing of materials and production management
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Psychology
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Public Works
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Q
Qualification
Quality assurance
Quality assurance in education and training
Quality audit
Quality criterion
Quality Security
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Quality system
R
Recognition of learning outcomes
ReferNet
Regulated profession
Retraining / reskilling
S
Sales management Purchase
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Sandwich training
Sciences, Social and human sciences
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Second chance education
Secretarial and assistantship
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Sector-specific training bodies
Skill
Skill
Skill needs
Skill needs analysis
Skills audit / competence profiling
Skills for the green economy
Skills governance
Social action
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Social and communication skills and competences
Software
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Standard
Supplier-trainer
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Tax law
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Telecommunications
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Textiles
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The financial investment in training rate (taux de participation financière à la formation - TPF)
Theoretical mechanics
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Title
Total wage bill
Tourism
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Trade, Sale, Horeca
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Trainer
Training and education consulting
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Training effort
Training leading to a certificate
Training leading to a diploma
Training of teachers and trainers
Training plan
Training project
Transition from education or training to work
Transport
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Transport, Handling
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Transversal skills and competences
Tutoring
U
Unit of learning outcomes
Upskilling pathways
V
Validation of learning outcomes
Validation of non-formal and informal learning
Validation of non-formal and informal learning
Valuing learning
Virtual classroom
Vocational education and training (VET)
Vocational integration / Occupational integration
Vocational training for career change
W
Webinar
Work with materials
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X
Y
Young people neither in employment nor in education or training / Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET)
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Diplomas accessible through continuing training
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Vocational training: DT, DAP, CCP
Adult apprenticeship: what is it about?
DT - Technician's Diploma
DAP - Vocational Aptitude Diploma
CCP - Vocational Capacity Certificate
Secondary education, DAEU and DAES
DFESC - Classical Secondary School Leaving Diploma
DFESG - General Secondary School Leaving Diploma
DAEU - Access to University Studies Diploma
DAES - Access to Higher Education Diploma
Post-secondary and higher education
University diploma
BTS - Higher Technician Certificate
Master Craftsmanship
Upskilling pathways
Diplom+
5e classes (third year of secondary education)
Regulated continuing training courses
Overview of regulated continuing training courses
Parental assistance
Acquiring Luxembourg nationality
Crafts and trades
Business-related professions, Property, HORECA, Transport
Regulated health professions
Tattoo parlours and establishments providing public tanning appliances
Non-formal education sector
Safety officer
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Support for company training
Co-funding of training
Subsidies for Luxembourgish courses
Support to promote apprenticeship
Overview of training support for individuals
Support for individuals
Special paid leave
Individual training leave
Language training leave
Youth leave
Cultural leave
Training leave for staff representatives
Organisation of working time
Personal working time arrangement
Unpaid training leave
Specific financial support
Tax deductibility
Financial support from the State for students in higher education (AideFi)
Erasmus+ programme
Assistance in acquiring Luxembourg nationality
Support for vocational training of job seekers
Reduction voucher
Validate your experience
Overview of Validation of non-formal and informal learning (VAE)
Diplomas accessible through VAE and procedures
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VAE for vocational training, general secondary education, and for the Master Craftsmanship
VAE for the Higher Technician Certificate
VAE for university diplomas
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Training news
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You are a company
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Lifelong learning
Lifelong learning: what is it all about?
Education and initial training, lifelong learning
Training stakeholders: who does what?
CLQ - The Luxembourg qualifications framework
Recognition of diplomas
Secondary education diplomas
Higher education diplomas
Training Observatory
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TEVA study - transition from school to working life
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Legislation
Guidance and retraining
Guidance and retraining: what is it all about?
Educational and vocational guidance
Skills audit
Arrangements for adults
L4S - Personalised learning workshops
abcd.lu - Basic education
Education for people with special needs
"Biergerpakt" – Citizen's pact for intercultural living together
Integrating the labour market
ENAD - National School for Adults
CIE - Employment Initiation Contract
CAE - Employment Support Contract
COIP - Professional guidance and initiation courses
F4L - Fit fir d'Léier
Reintegrating the labour market
Initiation and development training
CRE - Employment Reintegration Contract
Future Skills Initiative
Professional reintegration initiatives
Occupational mobility
Carrying out training activity
Become an approved training provider
Accreditation of Luxembourgish classes for acquiring nationality
European initiatives
Europass - the European skills passport
CEFR - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
EQF - European Qualifications Framework
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