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21 Jun 2006
Europass "Phase-4" is now online!
A new set of improvements is now available at the Europass site.New features include:

Visitors may now use the combined PDF+XML format to view, print, upload and re-edit their CV and ELP data.

The Europass XML format can now be graphically displayed with the use of embedded XSL stylesheets.

Web Services interfaces are now available for the remote generation of CV and ELP documents (see Instructions, Examples)

Site is now WAI compatible, and with adjustable display font size.

The "Online creation" area of the site is now under an encrypted channel (SSL)

Custom ordering of Work/Educational Experience and of Surname/Firstname

and miscellaneous other improvements.
15 May 2006
Europass website available in Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Slovenian
The Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Slovenian translations of the Europass site are now available on-line. This brings up to 21 the number of languages in which Europass is available.
02 Mar 2006
Europass website available in Polish and Norwegian
The Polish and Norwegian translations of the Europass site are now available on-line. This brings up to 17 the number of languages in which Europass is available. Hungarian and Czech will soon follow.
13 Feb 2006
Europass celebrates its 1 year-old birthday!
Having been launched on 31 January 2005, the Europass website is now celebrating its first birthday!

With a lot of positive feedback and an increasing number of visitors, Europass is now available in 15 languages (recent additions: Slovak and Latvian); another 10 languages are on the way.

Upcoming new features for Europass include:
- Web Services for generating Europass documents;
- implementation of the Europass Binder; and
- XSL stylesheets for viewing the Europass XML format.

Should you wish to propose any new features and enhancements or to make any suggestions, please feel free to do so through the "Your Opinion" page.

Website statistics (1 Feb 2005 → 31 Jan 2006):

- Total visits: 2,002,487
- Total downloads (Europass templates, examples, instructions): 3,299,090
- Total CVs or Language passports generated on-line: 352,100
- Average visits per day (Jan 06): 7,452
- Average downloads per day (Jan 06): 10,198
- Average on-line generations per day (Jan 06): 1,683
Happy birthday Europass!
24 Nov 2005
Europass website available in Estonian
The Estonian translation of the Europass site is now available on-line.
21 Oct 2005
Europass website available in Finnish
The Finnish translation of the Europass site is now available on-line.
25 Aug 2005
Europass "phase 2" is online! - Europass website available in Italian
A new development batch has been brought on-line at the Europass site.

New features include:

An XML-based facility which enables visitors to upload and re-edit their CV and ELP data

Much faster generation of CVs and ELPs at the "On-line creation" tool.

Availability of CV and ELP templates in the OpenOffice format, in all available languages.

and miscellaneous other improvements.

The Italian version of the Europass site has become available on-line.

Development work goes on, aiming for new web tools to manage and incorporate the Europass Mobility document (ex-"Europass-Training") and the Europass "Binder".
16 Aug 2005
Europass website available in German
The German translation of the Europass site has become available on-line
16 Aug 2005
Europass statistics May 2005
After 4 months of operation, the Europass site has had ca. 630,000 visits, with ca. 200,000 downloads and on-line generations of the Europass CV and the Europass Language Passport.

About 5,000 persons are visiting the site every day. Most downloaded files: the Europass CV examples and instructions.
16 Aug 2005
Europass website available in 9 languages
Portuguese is the latest languages in which the Europass site is available. Previous language versions launched were: English and French (01/2/05), German (21/4/05), Swedish (25/5/05), Dutch (8/6/05), Danish (17/6/05), Greek (24/6/05) and Spanish (29/6/05).

The aim of Cedefop and the European Commission is to have the Europass site, along with all the Europass instruments, instructions and on-line creation tools, available in 25 languages by the end of the year 2005.

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