Competency based learning is seen as a means to make the educational system more adapt to cater for , the learners’ professional development and the need to increase their future employability. The ICOPER Best Practice Network is exploring the ways competencies can drive authoring use of educational content. The aim of the ICOPER project is to create a reference model for competency-driven learning. Before all the bits and pieces come together iterative rounds of “big picture” conceptual modelling is taking place.