Course Key Competences (for European Lifelong Learning, 2018)

This MOOC is promoted by a number of key competences including the following:

• Literacy competences, which include the skills to communicate orally and in writing in various situations depending on their skills to understand, and be understood in these situations.
• Digital competences, which include the confident and critical use of digital technological devices available for learning, understanding opportunities and limitations of the digital environment, supporting social inclusion through digital technology, reflective and critical attitude.
• Multilingual Competences, which involve having good repertoire of vocabulary, functional grammar, societal conventions, to be able to understand spoken and written messages to maintain formal, non-formal and intercultural communications.
• Personal, social, and learning to learn competences, which involve the ability to work and communicate constructively in different situations, collaborating in teams, expressing and understanding different perspectives.
• Cultural awareness and expression competences. These competences comprise the ability to understand how ideas and meanings are creatively expressed and communicated in different cultures, how different cultures impose different types of communication.
• Citizenship Competences, which involve knowing basic concepts and phenomena relating to individuals, groups, work organizations, society, etc., critical understanding of the European common values, and the main developments in national, European and world history movements, participating in democratic decision-making at all levels and civic activities, social and cultural diversity, gender equality, etc.