The European Information Technologies Certification Institute - Disseminating Digital Skills and IT Competencies The European IT Certification framework has been established in 2008 as an EU based vendor independent standard in widely accessible, online certification of digital skills and competencies in many areas of professional specializations. It is one of the most recognized digital skills certification standards in the European Union. The European IT Certification Institute (EITCI) governing and accrediting this framework is an international not-for-profit organization acting in a legal form of the Association Without Profit Purpose (ASBL) in accordance with the provisions of the Title III of Belgian Law, granting legal personality to non-profit associations and establishments of public utility. EITCI Institute was founded to support accelerating growth of the information society and counteracting digital exclusion by development and dissemination of the European IT Certification framework, increasing accessibility to IT competencies certification services among individuals in the EU and globally. It has been carrying out its mission for over 15 years and has established one of not many vendor-independent digital skills certification frameworks competing globally and based in the EU. EITCI Institute, as a not-for-profit certification provider, contrary to most of the international digital certification standards providers operating mainly in the US and acting for profit, operates under a legal requirement that all the income from its activities must be solely allocated to further development of EITCI certification provision statutory activities. Our main goal is to disseminate the digital skills in various IT application areas as widely as we can, by lowering barriers in access to digital qualifications certification in the EU and worldwide.
