European Recognition of Diplomas

Yuverta's Lifelong Learning department works internationally with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). Here's why:

What is your diploma worth abroad? This is not always clear, because each country has its own educational structure with its own curriculum, and the name of the qualification is also different. What is vocational school level 4 worth in Spain? Or in Finland? How do you compare content knowledge and levels? A European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has been defined for this purpose. Yuverta Lifelong Learning works together with training centres and commercial parties inside and outside the Netherlands to make this framework more widely known.

On every (Yuverta) diploma there is a stamp of which people often do not know what it means. It is an indication of the level your degree has within the EQF. In the context of the increasing internationalisation of education, the EQF is a useful tool to determine how your level is qualified in other countries and whether your chosen further education or training is appropriate in terms of level. In 2021, Yuverta initiated a project to get a better picture of the EQF to make lifelong development easier, also at European level. This project is called European Platform for Urban Greening (EPLUG). Sijtske Ouderkerken is manager of the Green Hotspot Houten, part of Yuverta, and regional captain of EPLUG.

In this extensive interview with Dutch trade magazine ‘Stad en Groen’ (City and Green), Sijtske talks about the objectives of the European Platform for Urban Greening and how they relate to the European Qualifications Framework.

Read the whole interview in English (pdf) or read the interview in Dutch here: Europese (h)erkenning van diploma’s (stad-en-groen.nl)