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qualifications. The qualification of people in Manufacturing is crucial, because of the fast
evolution of technology and the quick changes in the production process. Stablish and maintain
the employee’s teams updated with the required skills is one of the most challenges.
Manufacturing requires rapid adjustments to their workforce in terms of their knowledge, skills
and competences (Cedefop 2023) (table 6)

Main Changes in Manufacturing

•Introduction of new production technologies and growing level of technological
complexity

•Advent of new materials

•Growing automation and robotisation of industrial production through Industry 4.0

•Digitalisation and shortening of value chains

•Growing need for interdisciplinary and broader basic knowledg

Table 6 - Main Changes in Manufacturin

Source: Adapt from Cedefop 2020, pg 38

Industry needs to adapt quickly, and the workforce will need to be reskilled and/or upskilled to
keep pace with these structural changes in technology and machinery.

3.2 Main Characteristics

Even though micro credentials are not, yet, clearly, and uniformly implemented, CEDEFOP
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identified several overarching features that are often use and try to explore them, having in mind
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the definition of qualifications, as provided by the 2017 EQF – Recommendation :
In order to add transparency and understanding to all, the critical and recommended information
to be part of the elements are in below. The elements marked with an asterisk (*) are optional:

a) Identification of the learner;

3 Cedefop (2022). Microcredentials for labour market education and training: first look at mapping
icrocredentials in European labour-market-related education, training and learning: take-up,
characteristics and functions
4 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017H0615(01)

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