Key concepts:

• Family Competences: knowledge, skills and attitudes men and women have obtained in family life, in their roles as educators, home makers and care givers.
• Portfolio: in this project a portfolio is referred to as a personal (possibly digital) file in which you describe professional experiences, prior learning and relevant events in your personal life in view of entering a training program and/or a job application.

Why validate family competences?

In the near future skills and competences obtained in family life will be in great demand considering the growing need for physical, as well as social and educational care. With a shrinking labor market supply and pressure for longer careers, it becomes very important that the quality of the skills and competences men and women have obtained in family life, in their roles as educators, homemakers and care workers, can be validated.