Part of the work developed during the funded phase has consisted in the definition of a standard and normalised set of Study Titles, Organisational Units and Occupational Titles which will make it possible to make effective comparisons across the EU Countries covered by the Network of Excellence. The goal of such comparisons and the working methodology to be used for such normalised sets was agreed amoung the partners after considering the experience gained by SDA-Bocconi in the preliminary work performed with Technology Consulting at the Italian level. The methodology will also serve as a reference for the contribution of other Business Schools that are going to link to the NoE.
Some results obtained by the G.E.M. partners have been transformed into an Electronic Dictionary by way of an already existing software technology manufactured by CVBase AG. This new software is freely downloadable from this website for personal and not commercial use. (Download)

The Electronic Dictionary is divided into 4 sections:

The Economic Sectors included in the Italian English version of the existing CVBase System have been normalised across the 5 EU Countries represented by the 5 Business Schools participating in the project.
About 530 classes divided into 3300 categories of economic activities can be currently found in this dictionary.

Study Titles relevant in the defined context have been normalised across the 5 EU Countries represented by the 5 business schools participating in the project. The reference material for this task was the list of high schools titles, university titles, PhD titles and university specialisation titles included in the existing CVBase System. The set of Study Titles have been extended based upon the educational systems of the 5 pilot Countries, and normalised across the 5 Countries covered. About 300 Study Titles have been included.

The Occupational Titles which have been considered were agreed by the 5 business schools, based upon their knowledge of the Industrial Organisation in their respective Countries and in the EU in general and of existing studies, and normalised across the 5 pilot Countries. About 5000 Occupational Titles, relevant in the context of the selected Economic Sectors, have been included. The Occupational Titles Classification series C, n. 12 published in 1991 by ISTAT (Italian Institute of Statistics) was used as starting point and it was integrated with the emerging professions of the last years.

Some of the initially existing 30 Economic Sectors have been further decomposed into sub-sectors, so that at the end of the project a total of 40 individual Economic Sectors have be included.
It is particularly important, in order to properly define the degree of responsibility and the degree of specialisation which is linked to a standard occupational title in the specific context of a Company, to define the organisational context in which the job has been actually performed. To this aim, a dictionary of the relevant Organisational Units in the selected Economic Sectors have been defined and normalised across the 5 EU Countries represented by the 5 Business Schools. The result of work already performed by the SDA-Bocconi and Technology Consulting for the Italian context was used as a starting point for the normalisation and extended to cover all the Economic Sectors selected.
The dictionary of the Organisational Units is currently addressing more than 3000 working contexts.