Additionally, a set of competences attracts competent investors who contribute positively to the attractiveness of a Triple Helix constellation (Eliasson 2000).
Thereby, a coherent system of competence model, set of skills, task model/pool of tasks, a Q matrix, and statistical model have to be specified.
Therefore, teachers must prepare educational activities designed to exercise a set of competences that each student needs to obtain.
The European Commission document 'A New Skills Agenda for Europe' [1] acknowledges that a broad set of competences is needed in the fast-changing world.
This paper is built on an assumption that, when enhancing the interaction between the three institutional spheres, there is a need to understand how a set of competences can be shaped for a more productive collaboration.
For those who are wary of the postulate of reflective self endorsement, an alternative approach is to equate autonomy with simply a set of competences, such as the capacity to choose deliberatively, rationally, and, as Berofsky claims, "objectively" (see Berofsky 1995, Meyers 1989).
They should be seen in the wider context of a core set of competences equipping all European citizens for a knowledge-based society.
The set of competences in each group is unlimited, defined by new challenges in the future.
Third, the competence-based assessment model currently used in Europe, starts from a fixed set of competences that are categorically divided (e.g. communication skills, nursing technical skills).
