EuroSPI² Certificates & Services GmbH (EuroSPI²)
The EuroSPI² conference series (and book series) has been formed 1994 as a leading conference in the area of System, Software, Services Process and Product Improvement and innovation with contributions from leading industry and leading research. SOQRATES as working group of leading German and Austrian industry started in 2003 and is moderated by the chair of EuroSPI since 2003 and the working group contributes to the thematic workshops organized at EuroSPI, to define state of the art in system design, safety and cybersecurity, assessments, quality management, agile processes, standards, etc. The EuroSPI academy started in 2020 (based on the EU Blueprint project DRIVES concept of a learning compass for European automotive industry) and within a year has many hundred trained, and on DRIVES learning portal we have more than 2000 MOOC trainees. The exam systems originally developed to support ECQA are now adapted and integrated to support Europe wide certification and exams systems under the EuroSPI Certificates & Services GesmbH. We now bundle this to a European initiative under one umbrella and move all teams and services behind this aggregated bundled European strategy.
EuroSPI² use proven in use exam systems and cooperates with DRIVES and ASA and supports the skills sets defined in the DRIVES learning systems.
EuroSPI Certificates applies defined certification and exam processes.
- Skills set: For each new job role a defined set of skills and learning outcomes are described in form of a skills tree (skills set definition). ECQA provides templates and certification rules for that.
- Certification of a training material: EuroSPI certifies training material to cover a defined skills set for a given job role. Training bodies across Europe can use their own training material as long as they cover all learning outcomes of the skills set.
- Evidence based skills assessment: EuroSPI provides an infrastructure to register as a learner, to upload evidences from work experiences and link that to specific skills elements and learning outcomes. Assessors log into the system and assess the uploaded evidences. In case of a positive assessment a certificate is given.
- Computer based exams: EuroSPI configures multiple choice tests per job role and exams can be organised. In case of a positive exam a certificate is given.
- Certified trainer: EuroSPI provides templates and defined procedures to certify trainers for specific job roles.
- Certified training body: EuroSPI provides templates and defined procedures to certify training bodies for specific job roles.
- ASA working groups: For each job role there is a working group in the ASA (Automotive Skills Alliance) in Brussels.
Relationship between ASA, EuroSPI and ISCN
The ASA has been formed from the EU Blueprint Project DRIVES for Automotive, and is under leadership of the ACEA. ISCN was WP 3 lead in DRIVES and established the learning platform strategy. In 2021 the EuroSPI formed a working group under ASA and the concept of EuoSPI/ASA certificates as been established. ISCN is a shareholder of the new founded EuroSPI Certificates and Services GmbH.
