The importance of Soft Skills
Today, Soft Skills are as crucial for professional development as they are for personal growth. As they do not refer directly to a specific profession or a specific organisational environment, they are applicable to different tasks, roles, duties and contexts.
Numerous studies show that, given the same curriculum, companies choose candidates who prove to possess transversal skills. This is why it is important for students to enrich, shape, adapt and continuously improve their CVs.
Transversal training activities are intended to provide an initial stock of knowledge, skills and qualities that come into play when translating a competence into behaviour, responding to a need in the organisational environment, as well as to implement and improve the development of so-called soft skills for greater integration into the world of work.
Open Badges are digital certificates of knowledge, personal skills (soft skills) and competences acquired. They are guaranteed by the issuing body and recognised internationally.
They are a personal certification tool, secure, easily spendable on social networks and verifiable in real time.
Therefore, the badge can be consulted and recognised by organisations or companies and can receive the endorsement of all the realities that recognise its value, facilitating the connection between companies, trainers and students.
Edvance is the new national project dedicated to advanced digital training.
It offers free online courses (MOOCs) on topics such as artificial intelligence, data management, digital sustainability and much more.
The courses are open to all students and allow them to develop transferable skills that are useful in their studies and in the world of work. Upon completion, students can obtain open badges that certify the skills they have acquired and enrich their CVs.