The service of creating a Survey on occupational standards and Guidelines for creating occupational standards, as well as education and support for proponents of occupational standards

The project activities are placed in the broader context of the client’s project entitled “Implementation of HKO and development of tools in linking education and the labor market”, as a connected set of multiple activities, proposed, coordinated and managed by the Ministry of Labor and the Pension System, which is aimed at improving and connecting education and the labor market, through the instrument of the Croatian Qualification Framework. As part of the project, a significant step forward was made in HKO, and all the difficulties and shortcomings that appeared in the initial activities of formalizing occupational standards and qualification standards, which resulted in the impossibility of using the then methodology and associated guidelines, were eliminated. Project team members Josip Burušić and Marija Šakić Velić designed a conceptually completely new Methodology for creating proposals for occupational standards and a Methodology for creating proposals for sets of competences based on which they created all the related Guidelines for the evaluation and acceptance of proposals for occupational standards and proposals for competence sets. As part of the project, they held almost a hundred workshops for different stakeholders on how to create proposals for occupational standards and proposals for sets of competencies.