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The Swiss national qualifications framework for vocational and professional qualifications (NQF-VPQ)
was developed as an eightlevel framework, for ease of reference to EQF; however, the first two levels do
not contain any qualifications.

Main level descriptor elements of the NQF-VPQ in Switzerland

Level descriptor elements

Knowledge

 knowledge  understanding

Skills

 procedural  sensorimotor

Competence

 professional  personal  autonomy  social competences  leadership competences

Level 1

Knowledge
Knowledge:
 possess basic knowledge specific to the working or learning context and a basic general education
Understanding:
 understand basic, general correlations within the working or learning context and able to explain these
in one’s own words

Skills
Procedural skills:
 able to recognise basic standardised tasks in a specific field to a certain extent
Sensorimotor skills:
 able to use specific technical aids and instruments to solve basic standardised tasks in a specific field
based on specific operational guidelines

Competence
Professional competences:
 possess initial practical experience within a business or similar setting from which further knowledge
and skills may be developed
 work can be carried out according to instructions
Personal competences:
 autonomy: able to apply the requisite knowledge and skills under instruction or operational guidelines
in clearly defined assigned tasks within a business or similar setting and adhering to mandatory
guidelines
 social competences: able to adapt one’s own behaviour to the situation at hand and interact
appropriately with others, work within a team and convey information both verbally and in writing
Level 2

Knowledge:  possess basic knowledge specific to the working or learning context and a basic general
education Understanding:

Procedural skills:  able to recognise and handle standardised tasks in a specific field to a certain extent
based on operational guidelines Sensorimotor skills:

Professional competences:  drawing from initial work experience, able to use the requisite knowledge
and skills at this level to carry out organised and planned work within a business  work can be carried
out according to instructions Personal competences: