摘要:AbstractRomania is one of the few European countries having implemented a national validation strategy and system comparable in terms of recognition and certification with the professional training system. But even with all these national developments, the validation of trainer's non-formal and informal learning is not being regarded as a trustworthily process but rather as a second-hand alternative to the training path. The present paper is based on a study developed in June 2009 which aimed to identify the credibility of the competence assessment and validation in the case of trainers and to define the factors that might affect its credibility. Although focused on the Romanian validation context for trainers, the study may significantly contribute at European level by presenting a functional model of a national validation system and by identifying which are the factors that might affect the validation process credibility.