We professionalize competenciesIn the era of life-long learning, the assessment of professional competencies has become increasingly important not only for individuals but also for organizations. The ESO-CRS software has been created on the basis of practical experience and is strictly outcome-oriented. It combines the certification of formal, non-formal and informal learning outcomes, thus professionalizing existing competencies and connecting them to career paths. This special innovation links competence-relevant elements through an action-oriented and outcome-oriented system consisting of various competence areas, competencies, tasks, technical terms and questions. Since there are numerous possible combinations, the system allows for the creation and implementation of individually tailored competence evaluations. For these evaluations, experts have to generate questions and outcome-oriented content. The action and outcome oriented system will then create a sense of a ‘team of experts in the process of learning’ through the application. The target groups of this project are employees of SMEs , training institutions and any organization that is interested in evaluating competencies.The main outcome is an internet platform for a European-wide competence evaluation. This platform contains comprehensive information, an administration tool, a pool of competence descriptions, an internet based examination tool with questions and answers, and a tool for the evaluation, the statistics and the quality assurance.