Barreto, AntóniaSantos, Filipe2015-03-202015-03-202011In: International Conference The Higher Short Term:The CET and the Future.978-972-8793-60-9http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/1343The Polytechnic Institute of Leiria has been participating since 2009 in project TrainFrame, a Leonardo da Vinci project where 12 institutions from 9 countries aim to create a competence based training and learning model for vocational training contexts. In this model the partners aim to take into account the differences of the partner institutions and the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria participates in this project with their Technological Specialization Courses. In this article we present some results of the Portuguese partnership concerning its Technological Specialization Courses concerning the first phase of the project, aimed at knowing the conceptions of both trainers and trainees of these courses on competence based learning and training (CBL/CBT) and how well the trainers used them in their practices. The results obtained suggest that the Technological Specialization Courses of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria meet these vocational training methodologies and that both trainers and trainees know their objectives and roles in the course.porCompetence based learningCompetence based trainingjournal article