## Phase 1: The outcomes of research

• Clarity of industry’s needs:
- Professional competences skills and knowledge at EQF level 4 and 5, in relation to the European objectives for aquaculture
- International and hidden competences
- General employee skills
- Health and safety
• Insight and understanding of the European objectives for aquaculture
- Improve and secure food security, food safety and sustainability within the sector
- Levelling the differences in aquaculture in Europe
- Optimize the innovative effectiveness
- Promote new sustainable entrepreneurship
- Accountability to climate objectives
• Clarity of understanding of the meaning of competences in reference to responsibility, complexity of tasks and procedures, independence, ambiguity, targeting the EQF levels 4 and 5 in formal, informal and non-formal learning
• Insight/understanding with regard to formal/non-formal/informal learning & hidden competences, work based learning and outcome-based learning
• Overview of National Qualifications linked to EQF
• transparency of educational systems
• Transparency of existing curricula and assessments in Aquaculture