EFPA Highlights EU Drive for Interoperable Digital Credentials Across Member States

The European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA), the umbrella body representing national psychology associations across Europe, highlighted in its February 2026 newsroom updates a significant new European Commission initiative aimed at improving the transparency, recognition, and interoperability of professional qualifications and skills across the European Union.

The initiative, announced by the European Commission on 23 February 2026, builds on existing tools for the transparency of skills and qualifications and explores the promotion of interoperable digital credentials. The goal is to facilitate workers' mobility between EU member states, enhance the functioning of the Single Market, and make it easier for skills and qualifications to be understood and accepted across national borders — including in highly regulated professions such as psychology.

EFPA's interest in the initiative reflects the federation's ongoing work on the recognition of psychology qualifications across the EU's 27 member states, where differing national standards, title protection regimes, and qualification frameworks create barriers to the mobility of psychologists working in clinical, educational, occupational, and research settings.

EFPA also used the February period to invite guest editors to lead the development of two special issues of the European Psychologist, the federation's flagship journal, and to track developments in youth mental health policy following the 2025 World Youth Report on Youth Mental Health and Well-being.