Medical emergency transport services are facing an increasing social demand; higher quality and the incorporation of new technologies, coordinated assistance, training and suitable resources. They also play an essential role in providing suitable emergency assistance: they reduce death toll, decrease complications (consequences) and economic costs, thus making public health profitable and optimising the resources.

The present professional certification systems privilege traditional ways of learning (formal training and certificates) compared with other ways to acquire the competences (not formal learning and working experience). Therefore, the workers who have obtained their knowledge through professional experience and practice do not have many of their competence officially recognised.

CERTRANS was born in 2008 and will finish in 2010 with the aim of encouraging the improvement of qualifications transparency, the valorisation of the knowledge and competences obtained through non formal or informal learning, and to adapt and test a Transnational Device for the Evaluation and Recognition of the Key Competences in Health Transport Sector.

The CERTRANS consortium integrates partners from different European Countries (Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and Bulgaria) and with different characteristics. These aspects give the project the required transnationality and quality, including the social dialogue from the beginning of the project.