Competences:
… are conceptualised as a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes and the definition of each key competence states the knowledge, skills and attitudes relevant for it. This approach supported the definition of learning outcomes and its translation into curricula or learning programmes.
- Knowledge – facts and figures, concepts, ideas and theories which are already established … [and] support the understanding of a certain area or subject;
- Skills – ability and capacity to carry out processes and use the existing knowledge to achieve results;
- Attitudes – disposition and mind-sets to act/react to ideas, persons or situations; in the European Framework of Key Competences also including values, thoughts and beliefs.
The definition of the individual competences and their related knowledge, skills and attitudes overlap and interlock; they reinforce each other (European Commission, 2018b, p. 7).