ECQA Certified Researcher - Entrepreneur

Europe is far from exploiting its potential of successful entrepreneurship, because it often fails to transfer innovative ideas and results to marketable products and services.

The ECQA Certified Researcher - Entrepreneur qualification and certification aims at delivering to innovative brains and researchers the qualification to determine if their ideas have a market potential, as well as to be able to create a commercial interest and transfer of innovation to concrete results.

Moderated Workshops

The ECQA Certified Researcher - Entrepreneur training deals with

• the process of shaping ideas,
• innovation transfer to bring research to innovation,
• knowledge networking leveraged by people networks,
• the creation of learning organisation environments,
• European and national facilitators of entrepreneurship,
• risk consideration and mitigation,
• open innovation and usage of web 2.0 etc.

The overall duration of the training course is 3-5 days. The qualification for ECQA Certified Researcher-Entrepreneur is aligned with the European Qualification Framework EQF, which gives you the maximum flexibility due to modularity of the training program, examination and certification. Candidates may thus decide to study and become certified for selected elements only - or to attend parts of the training onsite and continue to study remaining elements online.

Europe-wide certification

This qualification is recognized by the European Certification and Qualification Association ECQA as a part of the European Training and Certification Program ResEUr (ECQA Certified EU Researcher-Entrepreneur). All workshop participants are be invited to complete a computer-based Multiple Choice Questions test with the possibility to be listed within the professional pool of experts by the ECQA having passed a minimum number of elements. Databases of certified professionals are publicly available to help organizations on the market in seeking organizations and individuals for cooperation, thus boosting the professional career of certified professionals.

Imagine that in the future Europeans will have a skill card which  illustrates your skill profile to fulfil specific professions, job roles, and tasks.

Please have a look at the ResEUr Skill Set to browse the content of this profession.
Here you can find the ResEUr Skill Card outlay. Learning elements marked in green are obligatory for certification.

ResEUr Folder

The development of the ResEUr Training and Certification Program was funded with support from the European Commission under the contract 503021-LLP-1-2009-1-BE-LEONARDO-LMP. All publications related to ECQA Certified Researcher-Entrepreneur reflect the views only of the authors and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.