Skills without evidence are just claims.
This is the standard that changes that.
EASEC is an independent European certification body — not a training provider, not a government agency, not a consultancy. Since 2010, our sole purpose has been to make transversal competencies visible, comparable and verifiable, under the international frameworks that institutions and employers worldwide recognise.
You have questions. Every serious institution does.
Before any organisation adopts a certification standard, three questions deserve honest, direct answers — not marketing copy. Here they are.
Who gave EASEC the authority to certify competencies?
No government body appoints independent certification organisations — not Bureau Veritas, not SGS, not any of the independent assessment bodies that operate globally across industries. Authority in certification is earned through methodological rigour, framework alignment, and the trust of the institutions that adopt the standard.
EASEC's authority derives from four sources: alignment with ESCO v1.2.1 (the European Commission's official skills taxonomy), the European Qualifications Framework (EQF levels 1–8), the Tuning methodology (developed across 135 universities in 27 countries), and the WEF Future of Jobs 2025 report. Every credential we issue is a Europass Digital Credential — the official EU credential format, secured with a Qualified Electronic Seal under eIDAS 2.0, and verifiable in the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI). That is not a proprietary standard. That is the European standard.
Our operational processes are certified under ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and ISO 27001 (Information Security) — independently audited standards that any procurement team or quality assurance body can verify.
Why would an employer recognise an EASEC credential?
Because the credential is not an EASEC credential in isolation — it is a Europass Digital Credential. Europass is the official EU initiative for transparency of qualifications and competencies, administered by the European Commission and recognised by employers, universities and public bodies across the European Union and beyond.
Every EASEC certification is issued simultaneously as a Europass EDC (secured with eIDAS 2.0 Qualified Electronic Seal), an Open Badge 3.0 (the global standard for digital credentials, portable across any platform), and a verifiable record at cert.easec.eu — accessible to any employer, institution or authority in real time, without login, without cost.
The credential itself maps competencies to ESCO v1.2.1 and EQF levels — the same taxonomy that European employment services, HR systems and qualification frameworks use to describe and compare skills. An employer does not need to know EASEC to read an EASEC credential. They need to know ESCO and EQF — which they already do.
Has EASEC been operating long enough to be a reliable standard?
EASEC was founded in 2010 in the United Kingdom as an independent certification body — fourteen years before this conversation. In 2024, operational headquarters moved to Valencia, Spain, strengthening EASEC's position within the European Higher Education Area and the Spanish and Latin American markets.
In those fourteen years: 3,425,000+ professionals assessed across 60+ countries, certifications active in institutions across Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, operations in 7 languages, and recognition as a finalist in the EdTechX Awards 2026 — one of the most competitive recognition programmes in global education technology.
The institutions that have adopted EASEC did not do so because we asked them to. They did so because the standard holds up under institutional scrutiny — in quality assurance reviews, in employer partner conversations, and in procurement processes that require documented evidence of methodological rigour.
An independent certification body.
Not a training provider. Not a consultancy.
The distinction matters — strategically and in terms of trust.
EASEC does not sell training or development programmes.
EASEC does not offer advisory or implementation services.
EASEC does not benefit commercially from the learning journey that precedes certification.
EASEC assesses what individuals can actually do.
EASEC certifies competencies against validated European standards.
EASEC issues verifiable Europass Digital Credentials. That is the entire scope of our function.
An accreditation body that also sells training has a conflict of interest in every evaluation it conducts. EASEC has none. When EASEC accredits a programme or certifies a competency, the evaluation is independent by design — not by policy.
That independence is precisely what makes the seal worth something.
Founded 2010. Recognised 2026.
Operating across 60+ countries.
Fourteen years of independent operation — with the framework alignments, institutional adoption and recognition to show for it.
Established in the United Kingdom
EASEC founded as an independent European certification body for transversal competencies — operating without government appointment, without training interests, and without conflict of interest.
Operational HQ established in Valencia, Spain
Within the European Higher Education Area, strengthening EASEC's institutional position across the EU, Spain and Latin America — and anchoring the standard within the continent it was built to serve.
Recognised among the world's leading EdTech organisations
Finalist in the EdTechX Awards 2026 — one of the most rigorous recognition programmes in global education technology, evaluated against the world's leading EdTech organisations.
The only standard covering schools, universities and organisations under a single European framework
EASEC certifies the same 32 transversal competencies across three institutional contexts — from secondary school students aged 12 through to senior professionals. Credentials are fully interoperable: a student certified at school level builds on that record at university and carries it into professional life. One continuous, verifiable thread of evidence across an entire career.
No other certification body does this. Not under a single European standard. Not with verifiable Europass Digital Credentials. Not aligned with ESCO, EQF and the WEF simultaneously.
Four frameworks.
One legal architecture. Zero ambiguity.
EASEC integrates four internationally recognised references into a single coherent model, anchored in EU legal instruments that carry weight across borders — not a proprietary framework that exists only within its own ecosystem.
ESCO v1.2.1 — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
The EU's multilingual classification of skills and competencies, used by employment services, HR systems and higher education institutions across Europe. All 32 EASEC certifiable competencies are mapped directly to ESCO v1.2.1. An EASEC credential is legible to any system that already speaks ESCO — which is to say, any system that matters.
EQF — Europäischer Qualifikationsrahmen
The eight-level EU reference framework that enables comparison and recognition of qualifications across national systems. EASEC's five proficiency levels correspond directly to EQF levels 1 through 8. A Level IV EASEC certification corresponds to EQF 6 — a statement any European institution or employer can interpret without explanation.
WEF Future of Jobs 2025
The most authoritative global reference on the competencies that multinational employers prioritise. Used by HR directors worldwide to justify skills investment and evaluate workforce readiness. EASEC's competency model is aligned with WEF 2025 so that certifications carry weight beyond Europe — in any institutional context that takes the future of work seriously.
Tuning-Methodik
The internationally validated methodology for defining, teaching and assessing competency-based learning outcomes. Provides the pedagogical foundation for how competencies are defined and assessed within the EASEC Framework — not arbitrarily, but according to the approach developed and tested across European higher education over two decades.
Alignment with these frameworks is not declared — it is documented. And it is protected by EU legal infrastructure. Every EASEC credential is issued as a native Europass Digital Credential — sealed with a Qualified Electronic Seal under eIDAS 2.0 and recorded in the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) for tamper-proof verification. All assessment data and personal records are processed in full compliance with GDPR and ISO 27001.
Any credential can be verified in real time by any employer, institution or authority — using the unique code or QR embedded in the credential. No account required. No cost. No delay. The record is never deleted.
Credential verifizierenVERTRAUT VON EUROPÄISCHEN INSTITUTIONEN
Die Institutionen, die Bereits mit EASEC Zertifizieren.







Die Zertifizierung von Soft Skills nach einem europäischen Standard hat das Vertrauen unserer Arbeitgeberpartner gestärkt und unsere institutionelle Reputation verbessert.
Dr Pieter Van Dijk
Direktor für Bildungsqualität · Hochschule Hanze für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Mit EASEC haben wir internationale Sichtbarkeit und klare, überprüfbare Daten gewonnen, um die Wirksamkeit unserer Kompetenzentwicklungsprogramme gegenüber Akkreditierungsstellen und Arbeitgeberpartnern nachzuweisen.
Dr Anna Bergström
Leiterin für Beschäftigungsfähigkeit & Karriereentwicklung · Universität Malmö
Unsere Absolventen heben sich nun deutlich auf dem Arbeitsmarkt ab dank der EASEC-Zertifizierung. Sie ist zu einem greifbaren Unterscheidungsmerkmal in Rekrutierungsprozessen für Absolventen in ganz Europa und darüber hinaus geworden.
Prof Seán O'Connor
Dekan der Fakultät für Ingenieurwesen & Gebaute Umwelt · Technologische Universität Dublin
EASEC hat uns ein zuverlässiges, strukturiertes Instrument gegeben, um Schlüsselkompetenzen zu bewerten und zu zertifizieren, die vollständig auf die Bedürfnisse des europäischen Arbeitsmarktes abgestimmt sind — etwas, das kein nationales Akkreditierungsrahmen zuvor bot.
Dr Katarzyna Nowak
Prorektor für Akademische Angelegenheiten · Universität Danzig
Die Integration der EASEC-Zertifizierung von Schlüsselkompetenzen hat es uns ermöglicht, unseren Programmen echte internationale Sichtbarkeit zu verleihen und unser Wertversprechen gegenüber konkurrierenden Institutionen erheblich zu stärken.
Dr. Marta López
Direktorin für Akademische Innovation · Universidad Europea
Die EASEC-Zertifizierung war entscheidend für die Verbesserung unserer institutionellen Beschäftigungsfähigkeitsindikatoren und unsere glaubwürdigere Positionierung bei internationalen Arbeitgebern und Mobilitätsprogrammpartnern.
Prof Claire Durand
Direktor für Berufliche Integration · Universität Süd-Bretagne
EASEC hat uns geholfen, unsere Studiengänge bedeutsam zu differenzieren und Studierenden ein zertifiziertes Kompetenzprofil anzubieten, das weit über unsere nationalen Grenzen hinaus anerkannt wird — auf europäischen Arbeitsmärkten und darüber hinaus.
Prof Laura Bianchi
Koordinator für Schlüsselkompetenzentwicklung · Universität Parma
Dank EASEC konnten wir die reale, messbare Wirkung unserer praktischen Ausbildung auf die Kompetenzen der Absolventen nachweisen. Das europäische Zertifikat ist ein klarer und verifizierbarer Mehrwert für unsere Absolventen.
Dr-Ing Klaus Richter
Professor für Angewandte Ingenieurwissenschaften · Hochschule Augsburg
One standard. Three institutional contexts.
EASEC operates as a single European standard applied across three distinct institutional contexts — because competency development happens across the full trajectory of a person's professional life, from secondary school through higher education into the workplace.
Certify student transversal competencies at secondary level — aligned with EQF 1–3
Issue vocational orientation profiles based on the Ikigai methodology
Provide institutional evidence of competency development for school quality reviews
Professional certifications for teaching staff — Teaching, Career Guidance, Student Wellbeing
Certify student and graduate competencies against ESCO, EQF and WEF standards
Accredit academic programmes for external quality assurance and employer visibility
Issue Europass Digital Credentials to graduates as part of degree completion
Professional certifications for academic staff — HE Teaching, Mentoring, AI Collaboration
Accredit corporate training programmes against international frameworks
Certify employee transversal competencies with verifiable European credentials
Issue professional certifications for workplace roles — HR, Leadership, ESG, AI, Training
Platform and infrastructure for L&D consultancies to scale certified talent practices
The standard is open.
The question is whether your institution is ready to adopt it.
Book a conversation with our team. No commercial pitch — a structured discussion about how the EASEC standard applies to your specific institutional context, vertical and objectives.

