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ECQA Certified Valorisation Manager | |
Description:
Many European and other projects seem to be missing a good valorisation strategy. Projects seem to be carried out in isolation, and finish without essential impact. In addition there is a lack of skills for carrying out valorisation actions.
The Valorisation Expert training delivers such best practices required to analyse, define and implement potential valorisation strategies. This includes topics such as
After the course you can attend a test and become an ECQA Certified Valorisation Expert. Although it is possible to directly do the test for the valorisation expert it is highly recommended to attend the training course because special know how is required Browse through the content/skill card of the ECQA Valorisation Expert
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Target Group: Company Managers All kind of projects (innovation, research and lifelong learning projects) need to create an impact (after the funding period). Technology Transfer Managers The course illustrates which roles new technologies and infrastructure play in launching innovation to market. Quality Managers The course illustrates which role quality assurance and the tracking of valorisation metrics play in optimising the value of a project and on boosting its impact. | |
Qualification and Certification: European Qualification Framework The certification and the training system comply with guidelines for European Qualification Framework, aimed to assure that trainings offered all over Europe are comparable in relation to content and outcomes. Accreditation of exam organizations, training organizations and trainers assure that the same level of service quality is assured all over Europe. The ECQA certified Valorisation Manager is one of the thirty job roles, for which the certification and training schema is running all over Europe. The ECQA is a non-profit association and provides an examination and certification system, meanwhile other authorised bodies provide training services. Certification as Proof of Knowledge After the course attendees can attend the ECQA certified innovation manager exam, to examine whether the methods and practices taught in the course have been understood. The exam is managed by an ECQA online test system. When successfully passing the test the attendees receive an ECQA® Certified Valorisation Expert Certificate.
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Training plan Summary The training will be based on assignments, active elaborations by the course participants, and discussions. All course participants will create a valorization strategy for their firm (= outcome of the course). Specifically the following exercises will be emphasised:
The Training Comprises 4 Units
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Tips for Exam To be accredited as an ECQA Valorisation Expert ALL elements need to be passed. The multiple choice exam will be online on the ECQA Skill & Exam System. The exam is modular, which means that if a participant passes a certain element that element is recognised as “successfully passed element” on the long term. On the certificate all elements, which the participant passed, are listed. For examination of missing elements participant may apply to a new exam, independently of previous exams.
Costs of Exam Exam after the course
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Registration Course Registrations
Registration will be possible for the below listed EU project partners. Online System
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Bibliography: 1. Siakas, Κ., Messnarz, Ρ., Georgiadou, Ε, Naaranoja, Μ. (2012). Launching Innovation in the Market Requires Competences in Dissemination and Exploitation, in Dietmar Winkler, Rory V. O'Connor, Richard Messnarz (eds), Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Selected Key-note, pp. 241-252 2. Siakas, K., Georgiadou, E. (2012). Quality Process Model: Towards Maximising the Quality of Social Impact through Valorisation, in Proceeding of the 15th Software Quality Management Conference (SQM 2012), August, Tampere, Finland, The British Computer Society 3. DiVA Consortium (Handbook for Dissemination, Exploitation and Sustainabilityof Educational Projects, ISBN: 3-902103-28-0) EuroSPI 2012 Presentations: Siakas, Κ., Messnarz, Ρ., Georgiadou, Ε, Naaranoja: Launching Innovation in the Market Requires Competences in Dissemination and Exploitation ECQA Days 2012 Presentations: Siakas K., European Innovation meets Dissemination Management Skills (ECQA certified Valorisation Expert, VALO). ECQA Conference, Session: Communication Skills Sheriff, M., Georgiadou, E., Abeysinghe, G., Siakas K. (2012). Sustaining value in innovation through effective communication. ECQA Conference, Session: Communication Skills | |
Contact Points for Valorisation Expert Education / Job Role Committee Members: ATEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Kerstin Siakas, siaka(at)it.teithe.org, http://valo.it.teithe.gr/ FH Joanneum GmbH, Austria Rupert Beinhauer, rupert.beinhauer(at)fh-joanneum.at Uníversìty of Vaasa,Finland Marja Naaranoja, marja.naaranoja(at)uwasa.fi Middlesex University, United Kingdom Geetha Abeysinghe, g.abeysinghe(at)mdx.ac.uk International Software Consulting Network (ISCN) Ltd Richard Messnarz, rmess(at)iscn.com Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Greece Antonis Bouboulas, antonisb(at)ebeth.gr IEK Thermi, Greece Nikolaos Katsonis, Grammateia(at)iek-therm.thess.sch.gr | |
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