The Competences Pulse brings four European competence frameworks together in one place: GreenComp for sustainability, EntreComp for entrepreneurship, DigComp 3.0 for digital competence and LifeComp for personal, social and learning to learn competence. All four are published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. The tool rewrites their 57 competences in plain British English and sets out the full framework statements behind each one. Each competence also has an “I can” statement, a task for learners and a classroom activity for four age bands, from ages 5 to 8 up to ages 14 to 16.

The SDGs feature links each competence to the 169 targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Every target has an education snapshot covering why it matters, a learning question, the competences it builds across all four frameworks, a classroom activity and ways to show evidence of learning. Teachers can add progression sheets, framework overviews and snapshots to a print pack and print them as A4 sheets. None of the four frameworks sets levels by age or links its competences to SDG targets, so the age-band statements and the SDG mapping are 169to1’s teaching suggestions, built on the official descriptors for teachers to test and adapt.