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ECQAEuropean Certification and Qualification Association
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NEWSLETTERNumber 2/2013, August
ECQA News
ECQA Days 2013 - Program Information
The ECQA Days 2013 will take place on September 26 and 27 in Cannes, France. For the 8th ECQA Days we wanted to build on the success of various successful topics from previous years and did create a mixed program of topics from EU projects as well as topics of the industry and current business matters.
This variety includes topics about nowadays technologies that provide huge opportunities for corporations, process im-provement and the carrying out of projects in order to increase success as well as further changes that affect companies and strategies and much more interesting information.
We invite all ECQA interested people to join this event and to being part of interesting discussions as well as to con-nect and network with participants from different backgrounds. Please find more information about the program as well as the link for registration at our website www.ecqa.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you at this year’s conference!
Key Note: ECQA Success Story in Big Engineering – Integrated Design Engineer, Alain Bernard, École Centrale de Nantes, France
Session 1A: Engineering SkillsChristian Kreiner, TU Graz, Austria
Session 1B: Business and Innovation SkillsGabriele Sauberer, TermNet, Austria
Key Note: Lean Six Sigma Academy for Europe – Moving towards Excellence, Dick Theisens, Symbol BV, Netherland
Workshop 1Implementation of Functional Safety Standards in Systems
and SW DesignRichard Messnarz, ISCN Ireand & Austria
Workshop 2Using Social Media in Business and NetworkingDániel Pálosi, Dennis Gabor College, Hungary
Workshop 3Process Improvement ManagementTomas Schweigert, SQS, Germany
Workshop 4Achieving Quality through Terminology Management in
Automotive and Aviation Gabriele Sauberer, Termnet, Austria
Conference Day: 26.09.2013
Workshop Day: 27.09.2013
Key Note: Quality through Terminology Management in Automotive and Aviation Industry, Gabriele Sauberer, TermNet, Austria
Key Note: Knowledge Alliance for Training, Quality, and Excellence in Automotive (AQUA) - Integration of ECQA Certified Lean Six Sigma, Functional Safety Manager with INTACS Certified Automotive SPICE(r) Assessor,
Wolfgang Komatz, Automotive Cluster Austria & Christian Kreiner, TU Graz, Austria
Session 2B: Educational NetworkingMichael Reiner, Univ. of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria
Session 2A: Networking SkillsRicardo Colomo Palacios, Carlos III University Madrid, Spain
Text: Nicole Handschuh, ECQA, [email protected]
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ECQA Certified Terminology Manager
Record number attend launch of “ECQA Certified Terminology Manager Advanced” at International Terminology Summer School This job role is the second to be developed under the initiative of TermNet - three years after the highly successful ECQA Certified Terminology Manager – Basic entered the stage. Its first training course took place from 15-19 July at the Co-logne University of Applied Sciences in Germany. It was attended by a highly international group of translators, termi-nologists and other language professionals as well as researchers. A large majority of them work either in global enter-prises or in one of the many International and European institutions. Since its first exam, the ECQA Certified Terminology Manager has become a highly valued and recognized certification in the field of terminology and related professions. This is partly due to a serious lack of available qualification in the sector - a gap the ECQA could successfully fill. But an-other success factor is the strategic planning and partnering policy and use of synergies in the provision of the training courses.
The most recent example being the renowned International Terminology Summer School which celebrated its 30th An-niversary this year.
“The Terminology Summer School has been a success story for many years now. However, in 2013 we saw a record num-ber of about 90 participants coming from all corners of the world, from the USA to Ethiopia. We believe that this increase is at least partly owed to the extra benefit that a recognized certification such as ECQA has to offer for the participants. Especially those from the business sector. We provide training for some of the most recognized brands. But also partici-pants from the European Parliament and Commission as well as the various UN Organizations increasingly request ECQA certification“, said Dr. Anja Drame, one of the organizers of the Summer School. Demand remains high for the “Basic” certificates and it is expected that the “Advanced” will be similarly successful. In addition, the development of specialized job roles like legal terminology manager has been voiced. A number of such specialized certificates are therefore currently in preparation and expected in 2014.
More information:International Terminology Summer School 2013 in Cologne: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2013ECQA Certified Terminology Manager: http://www.termnet.org/english/products_service/ecqa_ctm
Contact: Blanca Najera & Deputy Director
Text: Anja Drame, International Network for Terminology - Termnet, [email protected]
ECQA Certified Process Manager
Manage your processes efficiently with the HEI-UP BPM Framework for Higher Education Institutions
If you are working in a higher education institution or in an organisation in any other industry and if you are thinking of setting up or improving your business processes, you may want to Join the HEI-UP Consortium!
What is HEI-UP?HEI-UP (Improving Business Processes in Higher Education Institutions) is an European project focused on upgrading BPM in HE (higher education) institutions through a common managerial model and offering an e-learning course for HEI managers under the umbrella of the European Certification and Qualification Association (ECQA).
Why business processes?Business process management (BPM) has been argued to be a more effective and efficient way of managing organi-zations than a traditional hierarchical management approach.
Today, the most successful universities are business-oriented. An efficient BPM builds up an ideal environment for achieving a high level of pedagogical, research and administrative staff, and above all, student satisfaction.Take a look at our early previews …
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Text: Tomislav Rozman, BICERO, Business Informatics Center Rozman Ltd., [email protected]
Do you want to see what kind of content is being developed? We offer you early preview of the HEI process framework overview and an excerpt from the learning materials (Re-search processes).
What are the benefits and obligations of Consortium members? The Participation in the consortium is aimed to accomplish multiplication of the effects of the project, initiation and improvement of the BPM knowledge transfer between companies and HEIs.
Specific benefits and obligations of HEI-UP Membership include the following:
Would you like to be involved?
- Visit our website to learn more about the project. - Fill in the application form to become a member of an extended consortium and get free access to the main project results. - Join our LinkedIn group and contribute to and benefit from discussions there.- Fill in the questionnaire, evaluate the state of BPM in your institution, contribute to the research findings
and get free training materials.
Feel free to contact Mr Alessandro Di Ianni for more information: [email protected]
We look forward to welcoming you into the HEI-UP Consortium!
Your HEI-UP Team
Interaction. The opportunity to interact and exchange knowledge with the Higher Education Institutions, organizations and individuals from all Europe through a LinkedIn ECQA Certified Process Manager group.
Partnership. HEI-UP Members can establish relations and exchange experiences and good practices related to BPM. You can join the HEI-UP Consortium, which includes 2 groups of users:- The community, which members are entitled to newest information, access to the materials and provide the feedback- Job Role Committee, which includes selected representatives of HEIs and companies and acts as a steering board of the Consortium.
Early Access. Members of the consortium get early access to all results developed in the HEI-UP project, such as BPM Frame-work for Higher Education Institutions or learning materials.
From Idea to Enterprise
Train-the-Trainer and Project Meeting in Ostrava, CZ from 2 to 4 July 2013
The “From Idea To Enterprise” consortium partners met in Ostrava from 2-4 July 2013 for an in-depth train-the-trainer session, and a subsequent project meeting. The main objective of this training was to transfer the key ideas of the complete ResEUr training material to the consortium partners, so as for them to be able to transfer this material to their specific target groups in an optimal way. The subsequent project meeting marked the kick-off of the main transfer phase of the very actively ongoing project.
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ECQA Certified Integrated Design Engineer (iDesigner)
ECQA Certified Integrated Design Engineer has seen hundrets of trainees Europe-wide since its creation in 2011, and the source of numerous innovation transfer programs in engineering-related ECQA professions. We are honoured to have four new trainers for this successful training, who will also be engaged to further dissemi-nate iDesigner and ECQA in their countries:
Congratulations to our new recognized trainers for the iDesigner training!
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Text: Dr. Andreas Riel, EMIRAcle AISBL, [email protected]
Prof. Alain Bernard,École Centrale de Nantes
Prof. Lionel Roucoules, Arts et Métiers ParisTech
Dipl.-Ing Christian Kind,Pumacy Technologies AG
Konstantinos Smparounis,Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS) of the University of Patras
Text: Dr. Andreas Riel, EMIRAcle AISBL, [email protected]
Functional Safety Manager
The SafEUr project team met in Grenoble, France from 6 to 7 May 2013 In the context of the training initiative of the EU project SafEUr on Functional Safety, the partners of the Leonardo da Vinci project met for the revision of the training material after finishing the first pilot courses in Europe.
9 participants came from Graz University of Technology (Austria), Methodpark (Germany), Spinet (Finland), SIBAC (Germany), ISCN (Ireland) and EMIRAcle (Belgium).
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A Functional Safety Manager pilot training took place in Helsinki, Finland, from 22 to 25 April 2013 In the context of the pilot training initiative of the EU project SafEUr, a training on Functional Safety Engineering and Management for FISMA took place in Helsinki, Finland, from 22 to 25 April. The 14 participants came from the industry sectors nuclear power stations and shipbuilding, as well as from research in the area of system testing methodologies.
A free SafEUr on-line pilot training will also be offered from September to November 2013. Interested parties are kindly invited to contact [email protected].
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Text: Dr. Andreas Riel, EMIRAcle AISBL, [email protected]
ECQA Certified EU Project Manager
Great interest in Seminars “ECQA Certified EU Project Manager”
Knowledge Transfer Center for management of European projects within Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Man-agement (Opatija, Croatia) organised during the February and March 2013 two seminar “ECQA Certified EU Project Manager”.
45 participants, mainly local self-government employees, private sector representatives, and master-level students from Zagreb, Karlovac, Dubrovnik, Porec and Rijeka got introduced to basic characteristics of EU projects through 4 units envisaged by seminar. Almost all seminar participants took the online exam and received “ECQA Certified EU Project Manager” diploma.
Due to the great interest, new seminar will be organised in September 2013. For all relevant information you can contact organiser at [email protected].
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Participation at the “Show case-Marketplace in Sustainable Innovations” in Hungary
The ECQA and several projects were introduced at the Show Case-Marketplace about „Sustainable Innovations“ at the University of Pécs in Hungary. This event marks the final days of the inte-grated summer programs in innovation capacity building held at the Faculty of Business and Economics with 76 par-ticipants working on 43 business development and consulting projects this year. The showcase marketplace hosted more than 120 visitors from the US, Canada, Latin America, Far East Middle East, Central Asia and Europe.
Prof. Anca Draghici from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, held a presentation on „Sustainable Profes-sional Competence Development“ with support of Prof. George Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Dr. Sorin Suciu (Politehnica University of Timisoara), Gabriele Fistis (denkstatt Romania), Serge Tichkiewitch (President of EMIRAcle), Andreas Riel (EMIRAcle & Grenoble Institute of Technology), Michael Reiner (President of ECQA) and Richard Messnarz (Viec President of ECQA).
In the course of this event, new relationships have been developed with the Business School in Pecs. Common fields of research will be subject for future collaboration on projects of the Politehnica University, as well as from EMIRAcle and the ECQA.
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Text: Marko Peric, Ph.D., Knowledge Transfer Center, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija, [email protected]
Text: Nicole Handschuh, ECQA, [email protected]
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Text: Nicole Handschuh, ECQA, [email protected]
Introducing ECQA at the MakeLearn Conference 2013
The MakeLearn Conference is an International Scientific Conference on Management of Knowledge and Learning and is organised by the International School for Social and Business Studies (ISSBS) in cooperation with foreign partner universities, international institutes and organisations.
With this conference, the ISSBS encourages the sharing of most recent developments in the field of knowledge man-agement between Slovene and foreign experts, as well as promotes itself and higher education in the Central and South-Eastern Europe. This year’s focus of the conference was knowledge, management and innovation intertwined with active citizenship. Aldea Cosmina (“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania), Michael Reiner (IMC Univer-sity of Applied Sciences, Austria), and Anca Draghici (”Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania) attended this conference as representatives of the ECQA and held a presentation on “Characterization of virtual project teams for e-learning communities”.
In this presentation, the current situation of the educational system was discussed as well as the ECQA and its core ideas were presented. An important part was to point out the success story of the ECQA, which currently counts 60 members of 25 countries and thousands of already issued certificates in 27 different job roles, and a constantly grow-ing community of people that are interested. Furthermore, the visions of the ECQA for 2020 were discussed and the results of a marketing survey, conducted by the ECQA in October 2012, were presented.
Please find the submitted paper and more information on the survey here: www.toknowpress.net/ISBN/978-961-6914-02-4/papers/ML13-269.pdf
The opening ceremony of the conference – University of Zadar
Prof. George Draghici & Prof. Anca Draghici at the Social Event Dinner
Prof. Anca Draghici - Debate and Q&A after the pa-per presentation
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EuroSPI 2013
EuroSPI – European Systems, Software, and Services Process Improvement and Innovation
For 20 years every year we have been moving to different countries and ask the local community to organize an event, offering insight in the local tradition and a social space for research and industry partnership discussions. The EuroSPI conference presents and discusses results from systems, software and services process improvement and innova-tion (SPI) projects in industry and research, focusing on the gained benefits and the criteria for success. This year’s event is the 20th of a series of conferences to which international researchers and professionals contribute their lessons learned and share their knowledge as they work towards the next higher level of software management professionalism.
At EuroSPI 2013 experts from 24 countries participated. To celebrate 20 years of EuroSPI we (1) invited initernational key notes to think about the SPI future (the next 20 years) and (2) we crteated an online multimedia presentation of key notes, a EuroSPOI film, and selected interviews.
You can access the EuroSPI 2013 film and video taping of key notes and interviews at:http://2013.eurospi.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112&Itemid=66
These key notes and interviews give you an outlook into the future movemenets of SPI and special key notes on the anniversary day included talks like (full available as videos on,ine):
Sándor Dolgos, Development Head, BBraun Avitum R&D Machines, Location Budapest , The MediSPICE ChallengeMartin Neureiter, Manager ISO 26000 Development, CSR Company, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a Tool for Hard Core Business ImprovementSusumu Sasabe, Adviser, JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers), The The SQuBOK® as a useful knowl-edge tool for global teamwork:Towards global collaboration on software quality and software processFergal McCaffery & Val Casey, DKIT, Ireland, The Development and Initial Implementation of MediSPICENetworking in the Past and in the Future , Micheal Mac An Airchinnigh, Trinity College, President ISCN, IrelandThe Essence of Project Success and Scope Management, Carol Dekkers, Quality Plus Technologies, USAThe End of the IT Age – Chances for Learning Organization, Prof. Dr. Bernd Hindel, Method Park Software AG, GermanySoftware Quality – The Past, Present, and Future, Patricia McQuaid, American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB), California Polytechnic State University, USASoftware Process Innovation for Future, Kouichi Kishida, Technical Advisor, Software Research Associates, Inc., JapanEuroSPI - Agora with a View and Impact on the Historical Ups and Downs of the SPI Hype Cycle, Miklos Biro, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, AustriaSPI successes and failures in the last 20 years and a view and thoughts on the next 20 years, Jørn Johansen, DELTA, Danish Electronic Light & Acoustics, Denmark
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Evolving process standards: towards integrated process and product quality, Risto Nevalainen, SPINET, FinlandSPI and Sfifting Paradigms - a Mapping to Modern Engineering Philosophy as an Outlook , Richard Messnarz, ISCN, Ireland and Austria
Attached to EuroSPI a number of international workshops took place. The workshops are related with ECQA Certified job roles such as ECQA Certified Functional Safety Manager, ECQA Certified Valoriosation Expert, ECQA Certified Social Media Networker, and LSSA for Healthcare. Also the Automotive Quality Alliance AQUA which was participating will use ECQA certificates from 2014 onwards.
The next EuroSPI 2014 conference will take place in Luxembourg, hosted by the Henri Tudor Institute, 25 – 27. June 1014.
Text: Dr. Richard Messnarz, ISCN Ireland & Austria, [email protected]
AQUA – Knowledge Alliance for Training, Quality and Excellence in Automotive
Flash progress report
We illustrate the AQUA architecture in Fig.1 below. In AQUA a base layer of core modules will be established which allow an integrated and complementary view about the three approaches, including Automotive SPICE, Functional Safety, and Lean Six Sigma. Integrated means, the base layer modules extract and teach common paradigms and principles - “the essence” - from the latter, and the link layer expresses the mapping or translation to Automotive SPICE, Functional Safety, and Lean Six Sigma. In this way, the complexity of learning and mastering all three standards can be significantly reduced.
The core team of experts in Automotive SPICE, Six Sig-ma, and Functional Safety met in Graz on 12.-13.2.2013. Together with Automotive Clusters this course combin-ing all 3 topics in one will be integrated into the Auto-motive Academies from 2014 onwards.
An international workshop was organized at EuroSPI 2013, 25.-28.6.2013, in Dundalk, Ireland, where the AQUA approach was discussed with leading industry from Au-tomotive, medical device and aerospace industry.
Also the Automotive Cluster Slovenia (workshop for Au-tomotive partners on 4.6.2013), and the Automotive Cluster Austria (workshop on 28 August 2013) organize meetings with core industry to co-define the competencies to be covered by the course program.
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Fig. 1. Integrated Base Modules Concept of AQUA and Linking Strategy
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The feedback from the Automotive clusters is used to develop a first prototype of course elements till 2.9.2013. On 2.-4.9. the next project meeting hosted by the Automotive Cluster Slovenia will take place. Also partners of the Czech Automotive Cluster will join the meeting in Ljubljana.
AQUA was also presented on 17.5.2013 at the SOQRATES group in Erlangen, Germany. This is a group of leading elec-tronics and Automotive companies in Germany (originally kicked off by the Bavarian software initiative in 2003) , in-cluding companies such as ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Continental Automotive AG, HELLA, Elektrobit, etc. The SOQRATES group will participate as a trial group for AQUA.
AQUA will create a training and certification based on the ECQA (European Certification and Qualification Association) schema. First certifications are expected from 2014 onwards.
Text: Dr. Richard Messnarz, ISCN Ireland & Austria, [email protected]
Training Schedule iFunctional Safety
Manager
ECQA Certified EU Project Manager
EU Project Manager, Audit & Financial Control Edition, 11.-14.9.2013 in Vienna, Austria4-days program with information on transition to the Next Programming Period 2014-2020, Horizon 2020, Education Europe and EU Cohesion Policy 2014 – 2020 plus Audit and Financial Control in EU-funded projects -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Proposal Writing Edition, 17.-20.9.2013 in Dubrovnik, Croatia4-days workshop for ECQA Certified EU Project Managers plus EU Proposal Writing Workshop-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ECQA Certified EU Project Manager 3-day training in Ljubljana, Slovenia12., 19., 23. Sept. 2013 and 5., 14., 18. Nov. 2013
A free SafEUr on-line pilot training will be offered from September to November 2013. Interested parties are kindly invited to contact [email protected]
You can find the trainings schedule on the ECQA Homepage: www.ecqa.org
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Contact
ECQA Certified Business Process Manager 3-day training in Ljubljana, Slovenia9., 16., 23. Oct 2013 and 4., 11., 18. Dec 2013www.certibpm.info
ECQA Certified Busi-ness Process Manager
ECQA Certified Termi-nology Manager
ECQA Certified Terminology Manager - BasicOnline course: Oct - Dec 2013 (English or German)Online course: Nov 2013 - Jan 2014 (French)Online course: Apr- Jun 2014 (English or German)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ECQA Certified Terminology Manager - AdvancedOnline course: Feb - Apr 2014 (English or German)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ECQA Certified Terminology Manager - Basic Face-to-face training in Hungary: 30 September - 4 October 2013 (German)