Translation of "Dictionnaire des compétences de DRHC " (French → English) :

HRDC Competency Dictionary [ Competency Dictionary ]

Building Block Competencies - HRDC Competency Dictionary

Behavioral and Technical Competency Dictionary

- Develop as of 2009 a standard multilingual dictionary of occupations and skills, to enhance the quality and transparency of vacancy information to improve matching between job seekers and vacancies.

The Commission will: publish a study on the impact on the European economy of shortages of language skills in 2006; publish on the web an inventory of the language certification systems available in the European Union in 2006; launch a study on the potential for greater use of sub-titles in film and television programmes to promote language learning; publish the inter-institutional, multilingual database IATE (Inter-Agency Terminology Exchange) as a service to anyone needing validated terms from EU-related contexts; organise a conference on translator training in universities, in 2006; Launch under i2010 a flagship initiative on digital libraries making multimedia sources easier and more interesting to use, and building on Europe’s ric ...[+++]h heritage combining multicultural and multilingual environments,[34] and Bring together and coordinate the work of European research teams in the fields of human language technologies, machine translation, and the creation of language resources such as dictionaries and thesauri, and set technical challenges specific to the European context (such as the focus on the quality of multilingual applications and machine translation systems).

The Branch engages in all kinds of research with a view to aiding policy development and to resolving problems associated with the labour market, employment, human capital development, income security, social development, manpower adaptation - in short, all matters under HRDC's jurisdiction.

When the HRDC national round table on skills and learning convened last March in Edmonton, participants, including the federation, firmly agreed on two principles: first, that the federal government has a leading role to play in financing and administering a national strategy, but, second, universal access must figure prominently in forming the basis of adequate skills training.