ROMANIAN BANKING INSTITUTE FIRST FInancial seRviceS EQF Translators in EU PROJECT Partnership

ROMANIAN BANKING INSTITUTE Contractor - EBTN Project Coordinator - Warszawski Instytut Bankowosci Methodological Coordinator - SCIENTER Evaluator - Berlin School of Economics and Law FIRST PROJECT Partnership Partners - Chartered Banker, Institute of Financial Services - Malta - Romanian Banking Institute - The Portuguese Bank Training Institute, Malta Qualifications Council Relay Partners - ABIFormazione, Italy - BNL - BNP Paribas, Italy - University Roma Tre, Italy - The Bank Association of Slovenia BAS - Institute of Financial Studies - IEF, Spain - Febelfin Academy, Belgium - NIBE SVV, The Netherlands - International Training Centre for Bankers, Hungary

ROMANIAN BANKING INSTITUTE AIMS Creating a tailor made EQF version for the FSS. Enhancing transparency, recognition of professional qualifications and certificates in FSS. Fostering the mobility of professionals in FSS by defining practical and meaningful EQF Translators. Turning the EQF and the level descriptors into a familiar and user friendly reference framework for the community FINANCIAL SERVICES EQF TRANSLATORS IN EU

RBI – 2010 BENEFITS Efficiencies in professional development process Training and qualifications closer to the FSS labour market needs. Quality of qualifications for stability of the market and consumer protection. Transparency of qualifications for trust and confidence in the quality provided by FSS. Mobility and flexibility of employment for people and organizations

ROMANIAN BANKING INSTITUTE To translate the EQF levels descriptors into a common used language easy to be applied in the FSS (Translators) OBJECTIVES To provide examples of qualification model as a reference point for the application of EQF levels in the European FSS

ROMANIAN BANKING INSTITUTE Banks Financial Institutions Employees Customers Training and Qualifications Providers Higher Education Institutions Regulators Banking associations Professional bodies Trade Unions Consumers associations NQF agencies Many others STAKEHOLDERS

Role of the participant organization in the proposed project TO promote the application of the EQF in the FSS. TO select three existing working processes in the FSS with the primary task to analyses their content related to knowledge, skills and competences for attributing the expected EQF level with the leveling methodology. Through the analysis and description of some learning outcomes of selected qualifications, TO provide examples of model qualifications at different EQF levels as reference point of FSS and translate the EQF level descriptors into a commonly used language to be applied in the FSS. TO support the referencing of national qualifications to the EQF in the FSS, co- ordinating activities to develop appropriate translators for the leveling of such qualifications. Committed TO involve the NQ Authorities in the reviewing and the validation of the proposed translator. TO organize and/or to participate to an ad hoc European Seminar for testing, discussing and validating the proposed EQF Translators in the FSS. TO valorize results and to evaluate the project process and outcomes. ROMANIAN BANKING INSTITUTE