The Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD) (engl. Institute for educational technology) is one of the research institutes of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). The ITD is the only CNR Institute fully dedicated to research in Technology Enhanced Learning. The Institute is strongly interdisciplinary with expertise including informatics, mathematics, physics, linguistics, psychology and pedagogy. In the last decade the CNR ITD has carried out research on competence based education and methodologies in educational setting. Moreover, in the last few years the ITD has improved their expertise in Vocational Educational Training system and Competence Based Learning. The ITD has developed a long experience in these topics and it has involved in several national and international projects as coordinator as well as partner.