During the final CERTITUDE meeting which was held in Paris on September, 24th 2014, the certification of persons professionals exchanged on the contributions of the approach of the CERTITUDE project, in the process of certification of individual skills.

All the stakeholders of a certification approach have taken the opportunity to share their opinion and had discussion around the following documents. The meeting involved Certification bodies, national accreditation body, certifying bodies and experienced tutors who were involved in the test phase.

Apprenticeships and similar work-based schemes have proven to make it easier for young people to move from education to work. But not all countries have highly-developed apprenticeship schemes, and many wish to benefit from others’ experience.

L' European alliance for learning (EafA) and Cedefop, along with the European Commission, organised a special event aiming to help establish such partnerships.

The project partners will present key results obtained as the certification scheme for academic tutors, the examination approach based on online tools. Are invited to attend this meeting, representatives of the various stakeholders, tutors, training, certification bodies, public organizations, funders of alternating training.

The event aimed at sharing the best practices implemented by regions for apprenticeship and youth policies. Regional representatives were the main speakers as well as the target group of the event to bring a regional perspective on the topic to the European institutions.

Mr Felix Rohn (DG Education Audiovisual Culture) emphasised that the Alliance for Apprenticeship establishes common guiding principles. He set out some of the things that the alliance has done during 2014: the ET2020 working group on VET, an apprenticeship call, a conference organised by Cedefop, the European Business Forum on VET 2014 and continuous monitoring by Cedefop.

INTED2014, the 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference was held in Valencia (Spain), on the 10th, 11th and 12th of March, 2014. A paper coordinated by TUDOR Centre was presented. With this paper; we explained how the project partners are developing the certification scheme respecting a process that ensures its quality. We will also explain how we ensure the quality of the process itself.

As the Academic tutor is not a recognized and regulated profession across Europe. Like many others professions, no formal training and diploma recognize teachers’ competences to support their students during their internship in companies. The certification developed by the Certitude Project team will contribute to the tutors’ validation of non-formal and informal learning. It will also contribute to the transparency, the recognition and the evaluation of tutors’ competences and qualifications.

Concerned about making available to this new personnel certification stakeholders an efficient instrument corresponding to the user's needs, the partners of the European project CERTITUDE identified and gradually implemented four quality good practices: