ESCO describes, identifies and classifies professional occupations, skills, and qualifications relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. One of ESCO's main missions is to build stronger bridges between the world of education and training and the world of work, contributing to reducing skill mismatches and supporting the better functioning of the labour market. The vision behind ESCO is the provision of a common reference language that could support transparency, translation, comparison, identification and analysis of the content of a qualification, thus helping to indicate how those relate to the skills and occupations needed across occupations and sectors.