In September 2010, this website reported that a Trainer and Tester Certification Workshop had taken place. Of the five phases mentioned at that time, we now find ourselves past Operation and Usage, and quite close to the last one: Finalization.

On Friday the 23^rd of October, the second part of this workshop, organised under the auspices of IPKeurope’s partners, took place in Hungary, preceded by some internal training for the group of people that will operate as the Hungarian Country Representative.

Naturally, the training session came to its conclusion when all six of the candidates took and passed the relevant certification examinations: One test with multiple choice questions for each ECo-C module, an offline test with open questions, and one oral, individual assessment test. In short, a total of six tests, administered according to a palette of testing processes, so as to ensure that the candidate trainer in question has acquired, not merely ECo-C related knowledge, but the ability to creatively situate this knowledge in a dynamic, evolving framework, as demanded by the rigour of his or her job.

We are pleased to report success on all fronts; the final chapter in this training session will come to a close in December, over the course of the official award ceremony that will, for the last time, officially reunite the participants before they head off to do as they are mandated, and… teach. 

And after that, as they say, sky’s the limit: these candidates were the trainers. The next will be their students.