The questionnaire is an accompanying instrument to the Charter and serves as a benchmark tool. It conveys institutions, providers insight in the principles essential for an open and flexible system of competence-based formal and informal learning. It specifies the processes, procedures and supporting actions which guarantee access and quality.

Lifelong learning is central to new thinking about education and training. It places strong emphasis on the individuals taking greater responsibility for their own personal and professional development. The bottom-up orientation of the Charter is a answer to this. It puts the learners and their interests in the center of the system of valuation and validation of competencies (VPL-system). The questionnaire summarizes the individual issues at stake: the raising of the awareness about what the individuals have achieved in all parts of their lives; the way they learn and how they might undertake further development to fulfill their aspirations. Over and above that the questionnaire expresses the values which guide and structure the relevant approaches and which should lie at the heart of programmes helping to achieve ‘lifelong learning’.

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