Curriculum development for Courses for Sustainable Waste Management, as well as syllabus for each course, and preparation of elaborates for certification. Development of a common methodology is one of the activities undertaken in the project to facilitate the recognition and certification of knowledge, skills and competences acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning and also to increase transparency of qualifications and diplomas in the waste management sector in EU.

Validation and certification are based on concrete competence requirements, which serve as clearly defined and agreed reference points (Cedefop, 2009) for building curricula for trainers and for assessing the competences gained at work. The requirements are stated in various documents: (a) occupational standards, describing the profile of a person providing training; (b) qualification standards, describing the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences) that everyone with a trainer’s qualification is expected to possess.