The specific objective of NPCSkills - Non-Profit Consultants' Skills is to improve the transversal skills
of the various professionals who offer consultancy to the European nonprofit sector,
with a view to innovation, multidisciplinarity,
market recognition and the ability to guarantee a high standard of quality of the service offered,
regardless of their area of specialization.
NPCSkills - Non-Profit Consultants' Skills is a project co-funded by the European Union.
The project partners are:
- EUconsult Italia
- SMe System Srl
- Stpeuropa
- Universe 8 Foundation
- EUConsult

The European Third Sector is very diverse in terms of the professionals working in it, the skills required differ on the basis of their respective areas of professional specialization, although there are some of a transversal nature that should characterize any professional figure offering consulting services in the nonprofit sector, in order to be qualified as an "expert in the Third Sector". Improving skills, developing new methods and approaches, and increasing job opportunities for third sector professionals are the key elements of the NPCSkills project.

Through a vocational training model for Third Sector consultants, based on information on the skills most in demand in the market, an ad hoc training offer will be determined that facilitates the transfer, recognition and accumulation of skills through teaching and that contributes to increasing the flexibility and attractiveness of VET vocational training. The expected result is therefore the definition of a professional training model, innovative and replicable, that allows the VET sector to approach the world of the Third Sector in order to fill this need for transversal skills.

The project also contributes to the innovation of vocational training by providing an innovative training model in terms of content and methodology used toward learners, who are accumulated by specialization in the nonprofit sector and the desire to increase their professionalism and expendability in the market. Finally, the project will ensure a strengthening of the transnational dialogue between the different VET providers, involving them in the implementation of the course in their respective national contexts where the training model can be replicated.

Who are the Target Group?
 The main target group of the project is represented by all the different professionals who offer consultancy in the Third Sector (TS): Experts in Fundraising, Experts in Communication and Social Media, Accountants, Bookkeepers, Lawyers and Notaries specializing in nonprofits, Europlanners, Social Planners, Project Managers.
 All European TS entities will be indirect beneficiaries of the project as they will have access to qualified professionals who are recognizable at the national level.
 European stakeholders are to be considered indirect beneficiaries since after their involvement in the identification of the soft skills on which to focus the VET training model they will have access to the model and the project results in the nonprofit sector.
 Training providers and organizations active in the VET field will benefit from the outputs of the project.