For universities & business schools
Prove your graduate profile — don't just promise it
Certified competency evidence for admissions, accreditation, employability, and institutional growth.
EASEC is the European accreditation and certification system for soft skills with the broadest global reach. Instruments are aligned with:
Four ways EASEC
transforms your institution
From admissions differentiation to new revenue streams — every outcome is verifiable, independent, and internationally recognised.
Select a category to explore the specific outcomes EASEC delivers for each area of your institution — and which decision-makers each outcome is designed for.
Programme accreditation with the EASEC seal
Accredit your training programmes — from bootcamps and microcredentials to postgraduate degrees — with an independent European seal certifying that the programme develops transversal competencies aligned with ESCO, EQF, Tuning, and WEF. This differentiates your offering from competitors who claim soft skills development but cannot prove it.
Admissions messaging backed by certified outcomes
Incorporate EASEC accreditation into every admissions touchpoint: website, brochures, open days, digital campaigns. The message shifts from generic promises to a concrete, verifiable claim — directly impacting applicant decisions and the willingness of families, employers, or scholarship bodies to fund tuition.
International positioning with European-issued credentials
The EASEC seal is issued from Europe and aligned with internationally recognized frameworks. This positions your institution at a level of global recognition especially powerful for universities in Latin America, Asia, and Africa seeking international projection — a credibility signal that transcends local accreditation systems.
Improved indicators for university rankings
QS and Times Higher Education increasingly weight employability outcomes. Having competency outcomes measured and certified with psychometric validity allows you to feed ranking indicators directly with verifiable data — creating a virtuous cycle between quality evidence and institutional reputation.
Competency diagnostics at intake
Establish an objective baseline of transversal competencies when a student enters the programme. This enables early detection of dropout risk, timely assignment of tutoring or reinforcement workshops, and personalized support from day one. EASEC intake diagnostics use IRT-calibrated instruments with Cronbach's alpha between 0.87 and 0.96.
Mid-programme measurement and progress tracking
Apply assessments at the midpoint of the training pathway to verify real competency progress. Allows programme directors and faculty to adjust pedagogical strategies with concrete data — not intuition — while there is still time to act.
Graduate certification as graduate profile evidence
Certify each graduate's transversal competencies with a verifiable digital credential under Europass EDC and Open Badge 3.0. Transforms an institutional promise into a demonstrable fact the graduate carries into the labour market.
Direct evidence for institutional accreditation processes
Use aggregated EASEC data — psychometric results by cohort, programme, and faculty — as evidence in self-evaluation reports for AACSB, ABET, ANECA, CNA, and equivalents worldwide. Accreditors increasingly demand measurable outcomes evidence, not just course lists.
Curricular intelligence based on data
Identify which programmes, faculties, or campuses develop competencies best and which show gaps. Make curricular decisions with data, not intuition — revealing patterns that no single assessment can show.
Internal and inter-institutional benchmarking
Compare competency outcomes across campuses, faculties, or peer institutions. EASEC serves as a common language enabling rigorous soft skills benchmarking — previously impossible without a shared measurement framework.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Validate and certify transversal competencies acquired outside formal education for adults returning to study, professionals in career transitions, or migrants. Facilitates credit recognition and personalized learning pathways.
Individual competency certifications with digital credentials
Issue verifiable certifications for each student or graduate demonstrating — to any employer in the world — which transversal competencies they possess and at what level. Credentials comply with Europass EDC and Open Badge 3.0, are shareable on LinkedIn, and can be verified with a single click.
Career services as a verified talent channel
Transform your career office into a verified talent channel with certified competencies. The message to employers changes radically — positioning the institution as a strategic partner for the productive sector, not just a supplier of degree holders.
Employer agreements based on certified profiles
Establish agreements with companies and organizations based on certified competency profiles. Opens doors to multinational companies, government agencies, and NGOs with structured hiring processes that require objective evidence of candidates' capabilities.
Student mobility with globally recognised standards
Facilitate international student mobility with transversal competencies certified under European standards. EASEC alignment with ESCO, EQF, and Tuning simplifies exchange agreements, dual-degree programmes, and credit recognition across borders.
Alumni competency certification
Offer EASEC certification as a post-graduation service for alumni. Generates a recurring revenue stream, maintains an active relationship with former students, and positions the institution as a lifelong professional development partner. The assessment infrastructure already exists — the audience is already engaged.
Continuing education designed from real competency gaps
Use competency mapping data from your alumni base to identify concrete gaps and design targeted offerings: diplomas, microcredentials, workshops, and short courses that respond to real needs — not assumptions. When a programme is built on gap data, the marketing writes itself.
Corporate and executive education with the EASEC seal
Certify your executive education, in-company training, or university extension programmes with the EASEC seal. Differentiates your corporate offering from generic training providers by adding an international layer of rigour and recognition. The seal converts corporate training from an expense line into a certified investment.
New programme design based on competency gap data
EASEC shows you where the competency gaps are, drawn from your own assessment database. Design new academic programmes with the certainty that they address real market needs — reducing the risk of launching offerings without proven demand. Gap data is the most valuable input for programme development.
Certification Centre as an institutional business unit
Become an EASEC Certification Centre and offer competency certification not only to your own students but to external professionals and organizations in your region. Transforms the institution into a reference hub for transversal competency certification — a self-sustaining unit that generates revenue while extending institutional influence.
Built on
scientific rigour
Every EASEC instrument is IRT-calibrated and independently validated. The numbers below are not marketing claims — they are the output of a measurement system built to meet the standards of scientific publishing and international accreditation bodies.
Frequently asked
questions
EASEC provides aggregated psychometric data — competency results by cohort, programme, and faculty — that can be used directly as evidence in self-evaluation reports for accrediting agencies such as AACSB, ABET, ANECA, CNA, and equivalents worldwide. As accreditation bodies increasingly require measurable outcomes evidence, EASEC delivers exactly the data they ask for: scientifically validated, framework-aligned competency measurement.
EASEC instruments and credentials are aligned with six international frameworks: ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), EQF (European Qualifications Framework), the Tuning Project methodology, WEF Future of Jobs competency model, UNESCO competency frameworks, and the O*NET occupational database. Programme accreditation specifically evaluates alignment with ESCO, EQF, Tuning, and WEF.
Yes. EASEC supports longitudinal competency tracking with diagnostics at intake, mid-programme measurement, and certification at graduation. This three-point model shows real competency growth over the training period and enables programme directors to make data-driven pedagogical adjustments. The instruments are IRT-calibrated with reliability coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) between 0.87 and 0.96.
Each certified graduate receives a verifiable digital credential compliant with Europass EDC and Open Badge 3.0 standards. The credential specifies which transversal competencies the graduate possesses and at what level. It can be shared on LinkedIn, included in CVs, and verified by any employer with a single click — no phone calls, no reference checks, no ambiguity.
ROI comes from multiple channels: improved retention through early dropout detection (every retained student is tuition that is not lost), stronger admissions conversion through differentiated positioning, new revenue from alumni certification and corporate training, improved accreditation outcomes that protect institutional viability, and ranking improvements that attract more applicants. The Certification Centre model can generate revenue that covers the EASEC investment many times over.
Turn your graduate profile
into verifiable evidence
Book a 30-minute call with an EASEC advisor. We will map the specific outcomes your institution needs — accreditation, admissions, employability, or revenue — and show you exactly how the system works.