Certification

Europe-Wide Certification

The European Certification and Qualification Association ECQA is the result of a number of EU supported initiatives in the last ten years where in the European Union Life Long Learning Program different educational developments decided to follow a joint process for the certification of persons in the industry.
Through the ECQA it becomes possible to attend courses for a specific profession in one country and perform a Europe-wide agreed examination at the end of the course. The certificate will be recognized by European training organizations and institutions in 18 member countries.

ECQA Certified Professionals

Participants from industry, administrations, higher education institutions or other organisations attend ECQA job role specific courses held by ECQA certified training bodies and trainers. This ensures a high quality of course delivery and independence of testing. Professionals passing the test receive an ECQA job role specific summary certificate. The certificate price depends on the specific certifier and job role.

ECQA Quality Criteria

In the European Certification and Qualification Association ECQA a partnership of 28 organisations in 18 countries agreed joint quality criteria and common certification rules which are applied across the different European regions.

The ECQA partnership agreed to develop a set of criteria to be applied when accepting new professions, new training bodies, new trainers for the European knowledge and certification pool.

- Quality criteria to be applied for the certification of new professions (skills sets)

- Quality criteria to be applied for the certification of training bodies

- Quality criteria to be applied for the certification of trainers

- A selection of professions / skills sets to be supported in the pool