EITCA/EG Academy is a certification programme directed to public administration aiming to bridge the gap in IT skills proliferation at all levels of EU public services/governance.
EITCA/EG Academy focuses on the IT domains most relevant to operation of the public administration. These are mainly office and management software, networking fundamentals, formal and practical aspects of information security and the European eGovernment programmes.
In a pursue of an EU standard for certification of public administration IT competencies, deficiencies of IT based processes in public domains of the member states are deemed to be reduced for the benefit of EU citizens, increasing public services accessibility and efficiency.
Only modern, innovative and efficient public administration is able to unlock further growth potential of the EU, and those qualities are conditioned by IT competencies.
(after you choose your EITCA Academy or a selected range of EITC certificates out of the full EITCA/EITC catalogue)
ENROL IN EITCA/EG ACADEMY +Follow online referenced video materials preparing for exams. There are no fixed classes, you study on your schedule. No time limits. Expert online consultancies.
After preparing you take fully on-line EITC exams. After passing all you obtain EITCA Academy Certificate.
The EU issued EITCA Academy Certificate with detailed supplements is a formal attestation of your competencies.
Follow on-line open-access materials preparing for the exams. There are no class-hours, you study when you can.
After preparing you take fully on-line EITC exams. After passing all you obtain EITCA Academy Certificate.
The EITCA Academy Certificate with a supplement and all substituent EITC Certificates well attest your skills.
Quality of public administration is one of the key factors for the overall European Union competitiveness. Public administration reflects institutional foundations of how member states are run, while the quality of governance and of public administration in particular determine performance of all public policies and services. Public administration addresses the needs of society and frames its functioning through organisational structures, processes, roles, policies and programmes, shaping economic prosperity, social cohesion and sustainable growth. It defines quality and accessibility of public services and moulds environment for creation of public value. Modern, innovative and efficient public administration is thus essential for sustaining crisis recovery and unlocking further growth potential of the European Union.
It is self-evident that the quality, efficiency and innovation within public administration processes and institutions are conditioned by qualifications of public sector employees responsible for relevant public services & governance areas. Along with accelerated digitalization of all kinds of professional activities, an extraordinary role is associated with Information Technologies qualifications. The role of IT in growth of the private sector cannot be underestimated and a similar wide-scale adoption of ever-smarter IT processes is taking place in the public sector, which cannot lag behind the economy environment it itself conditions. This is well pronounced in the conclusions of the European Commission's "Quality of public administration" November 2016 survey, recognizing that a real shift towards e-government depends on IT skills and competencies quality of staff at all levels of public administration structures.
The European Information Technologies Certification Academy for public administration is a dedicated programme aimed to bridge the gap in IT skills proliferation at all levels of public services and governance. The EITCA/EG standard is designed to provide a common EU framework for quality in development and sustaining of proper and up to date qualifications of public administration staff. Due to this common standard in certification and attestation of IT competencies, deficiencies of IT based processes in public sectors of the member states are deemed to be reduced for the benefit of the EU citizens, supporting an increase of public services accessibility, efficiency and quality. The EITCA/EG programme for public administration is maintained by the European Information Technologies Certification Institute and implements the Digital Agenda for Europe, forming one of the seven pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
The European Information Technologies Certification Academy for public administration is a dedicated programme aimed to bridge the gap in IT skills proliferation at all levels of public services and governance in the EU. The EITCA/EG eGovernment Information Technologies certification standard is designed to provide a common EU framework for quality in development and sustaining of proper and up to date qualifications of public administration staff. Due to this common standard in certification and attestation of IT competencies, deficiencies of IT based processes in public sectors of the member states are deemed to be reduced for the benefit of the EU citizens, supporting an increase of public services accessibility, efficiency and quality. The EITCA/EG programme for public administration is maintained by the European Information Technologies Certification Institute and implements the Digital Agenda for Europe, forming one of the seven pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Quality of public administration is one of the key factors for the overall European Union competitiveness. Public administration reflects the institutional foundations of how member states are run, while the quality of governance and of public administration in particular determine performance of all public policies and services. Public administration addresses the needs of society and frames its functioning through organisational structures, processes, roles, policies and programmes, shaping economic prosperity, social cohesion and sustainable growth. It defines quality and accessibility of public services and moulds environment for creation of public value. Modern, innovative and efficient public administration is thus essential to sustaining crisis recovery and unlocking further growth potential of the EU. It is self-evident that the quality, efficiency and innovation within public administration processes and institutions are conditioned by qualifications of public sector employees responsible for relevant areas of public services and of governance. Along with accelerated digitalization of all kinds of professional activities, an extraordinary role is associated with Information Technologies qualifications. The role of IT in growth of the private sector cannot be underestimated and a similar wide-scale adoption of ever-smarter IT processes is taking place in the public sector, which cannot lag behind the economy environment it itself conditions. This is well pronounced in the conclusions of the "Quality of public administration" European Commission November 2016 survey, recognizing that a real shift towards e-government depends on IT skills and competencies quality of staff at all levels of public administration structures. Obtaining the EITCA/EG Academy certificate is associated with acquiring knowledge and passing the final exams within all of the 7 single EITC courses constituting the Academy (also available separately as single EITC certifications). More details can be found on the FAQ pages.
The EITCA/EG eGovernment Academy programme includes 7 single EITC courses (European Information Technologies Certification courses) with a total of 105 hours of didactic content (15 hours for each EITC course).
The list of EITC certification courses included in the complete EITCA/EG eGovernment Academy programme, in accordance with the specifications of the European Information Technologies Certification Institute EITCI, is presented below. You can click on a respective EITC certification course to display the detailed programme.
The individual EITC courses may also be purchased separately, without the need to purchase a complete academy, however in this case no EU support applies.
EITCA/EG eGovernment Academy is an advanced training and certification programme with extensive didactic content, equivalent to international post-graduate studies combined with the state-of-the-art training in current standards of electronic administration programmes and interoperability standards in the EU. The content of the EITCA Academy certification programme is specified and standardized by the European Information Technologies Certification Institute EITCI in Brussels. This programme is successively updated due to IT advancement in accordance with the guidelines of the EITCI Institute and is subject to periodic accreditations.
Personalized certifications that participant obtains after completing EITCA/EG Academy consists of EITCA/EG eGovernment Academy certificate and 7 specific EITC/EG certificates. Specimens of all of these certificates are presented below:
Both the learning process as well as examination procedures within the EITCA Academy is carried out remotely within e-learning platform. The didactic process, carried out via Internet with the use of any client device, is fully flexible in terms of time and place, eliminating requirement of participants' physical presence and removing accessibility barriers (such as geographic or time zone barriers).
After signing-up for a chosen EITCA/EITC programme participants acquire access to personalized e-learning environment featuring asynchronous learning methodology, without any timing requirements.
EITC/EITCA e-learning didactics highlights:
The EITC/EITCA interactive didactic process on the e-learning platform includes an unlimited availability of expert consultations. On-line consultancy can be initiated at any time by the participant who requires assistance.
Depending on the needs of the participant the consultancy can be limited to answering to the specific questions or solving problems associated with the didactic programme. It can be also extended to tutorials and advices, up to individual didactic approach based on the progress of the participant. Consultancies are based on the e-learning platform communication system as well as individual e-mail contact and if required real-time chat with experts.
The e-learning platform processes statistics of all learning activities of the participant during didactic programme implemenation and thus allows consulting experts to individualize their approach in proper assisting of the participant learning needs. Detailed activity reports are prepared automatically by the platform and presented to the consulting experts so they can know which parts of the programme were most problematic and require focus. The model of individual tutoring and coaching depending on the learning needs of participants is based upon similar aproaches in the leading universities and is characterized by increasing learning effectiveness additionally motivating participants to increased effort in learning when they decide to initiate consultancy assistance.
The on-line didactics is always programmed into EITC courses which end in fully remote EITC examination conducted via Internet, without the need of physical presence at examination center. The examination has a form of a closed test, including 15 random multiple-choice test questions on the given EITC course content. This remote test is taken by the participant within the e-learning platform (where the participant is presented with the interactive test which implements random choice of test questions, the ability to return to answered or unanswered questions and time limitation which is 45 minutes). The EITC examination passing score is 60% positive answers but failure in achieving this limit enables participant to retake the exam without additional fees (there are 2 free retake attempts, after which further examination retakes require a payment fee amounting to 20 Euro to be processed). Participant can retake a passed test to improve the score for better presentation on the certification.
Completion of all EITC exams which constitute an EITCA certification results in issuing to the participant the relevant EITCA Academy certification, together with all included EITC certificates. There are no additional EITCA Academy examinations (the examinations are only assigned to EITC courses, passing each of them results with an EITC certification issuing, while the EITCA Academy certification is only issued after passing a relevant group of EITC examinations). The scores presented on the EITCA Academy certification are the scores of all EITC certifications comprising a certain EITCA Academy. All the procedures are implented fully remotely in Brussels and the ceritificate is sent to the participant, while the digital certification is permamently stored in the EITCI validation service.
Certification process along with all the examinations is conducted fully remotely on-line within a modern e-learning platform in an asynchronous mode. Thanks to flexibly of organized e-learning didactic process along with all the examinations carried out remotely and asynchronously via Internet (allowing highest flexibility in time with participant self organizing his learning activity at his / her convenience), physical presence of the participant is not necessary, therefore many barriers are eliminated.
The EITCA Academy and EITC certifications are compatible with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (in short ECTS). If you study on the European university (not necessarily in the EU but in the country participating in the ECTS standard) you can account EITCA Academy or EITC courses completion for your ongoing undergraduate or postgraduate studies programme within a national-level higher education system. This is possible as the EITCA Academy and EITC certifications are ECTS standard compatibile, and have assigned ECTS scores according to the standard specification. Nevertheless it is still a decision on the side of the university administration to accept or decline accounting of completion of a certain EITC certification course in your academic studies programme (such inquiry should be made to the Dean office along with the relevcant EITC/EITCA certifications and their supplements). The EITC and EITCA certifications are provided with the detailed programme supplements that will allow for a proper consideration of contentwise equivalence with a relevant university course or the corresponding ammount of qualifications and competencies even by the universities in the countries which are not participating in the ECTS system.
EITCA Academies consist of groups of individual EITC Certification programmes, each of those being assigned with the defined number of the ECTS credits, awarded after obtaining the Certification. The EITC/EITCA percantage based grading scale is also fully compatible with the ECTS grading scale, thus supporting acceptance of external learning results. The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) serves as a EU based standard for comparing the academic study attainment and performance of students of higher education across the European Union and other European countries seeking to participate in the ECTS standard. For successfully completed courses relevant numbers of ECTS credits are awarded. The ECTS credits serve as a reference to compare complexity of courses in different higher educational institutions and by agreements between these institutions to acknowledge the courses completed in different institutions on the basis of ECTS credits support international exchange of EU students and studying abroad. It should be noted that many countries have similar standards, which can easily account ECTS credits too. Gaining ECTS credits in EITC/EITCA programme will certainly add-up positively to your academic conduct at any university.
Upon the EITCI subsidy the EITCA/EG eGovernment Academy attesting professional IT competencies related to public administration is accessible internationally within a 80% EITCI subsidized fee for EU member states public sector employees.
EU public services, national and regional government agencies employees are encouraged to develop and formally confirm professional IT competencies related to administration competencies on-line in Brussels.
If you or your organization are interested in the programme, the EITCI subsidy will enable 80% reduction of the European IT Certification Academy fee promoting dissemination of the standard.
The EITCA Academy constitutes a series of topically related EITC Certification programmes, which can be completed separately, corresponding on their own to standards of industrial level professional IT skills attestation. Both EITCA and EITC Certifications constitute an important confirmation of the holder's relevant IT expertise & skills, empowering individuals worldwide by certifying their competencies and supporting their careers. The European IT Certification standard developed by EITCI Institute since 2008 aims to support digital literacy, disseminate professional IT competencies in life long learning and counter digital exclusion by supporting people living with disabilities, as well as people of low socio-economic status and the pre-tertiary school youth. This conforms with the guidelines of the Digital Agenda for Europe policy as set out in its pilar of promoting digital literacy, skills and inclusion.
EITCI DSJC Subsidy code waives 80% of the fees for EITCA Academy Certifications within a limited number of places. The subsidy code has been applied to your session automatically and you can proceed with your chosen EITCA Academy Certification order. However if you prefer to not lose the code and save it for later use (before the deadline) you can send it to your e-mail address. Please note that the EITCI DSJC Subsidy is valid only within its eligibility period, i.e. until the end of 8/10/2024. The EITCI DSJC subsidized places for EITCA Academy Certification Programmes apply to all participants worldwide. Learn more on the EITCI DSJC Pledge.SEND EITCI SUBSIDY CODE TO YOUR EMAIL