European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) is a multilingual classification that identifies and categorises

skills A skill is the learned or innate ability Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various Action (philosophy), actions. They include common abilities, like walking, and rare abilities, like performing a double backflip. Abilities are in ...

, competences, qualifications and

occupations Occupation commonly refers to: *Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment * Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, t ...

relevant for the EU labour market and education. ESCO has been developed by The European Commission since 2010. ESCO v1.2 contains about 3 039 occupations, each occupation is classified according to

International Standard Classification of Occupations The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) is a system developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to classify and organize occupations into a structured hierarchy. It serves to facilitate international communi ...

(version 2008). ESCO is published in the 24 official languages of the European Union as well as in Norwegian, Icelandic, Ukrainian and Arabic. ESCO is an extension of the ISCO scheme.

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ESCOpedia - Online reference to the ESCO classification
Employment classifications International classification systems Lists of occupations Occupations

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