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Date: 01/04/2023

As businesses and technologies evolve, the demand for new skills is ever present in a competitive global job market and lifelong learning is essential for success. That is why PeopleCert announces the Continuing Professional Development Programme.

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme is designed to help candidates stay ahead in the competitive labour market. It aims to help candidates thrive in their chosen discipline and keep them up-to-date with the skills and best practices for their professional development.

Part of this programme means that starting from 2023, all Global Best Practice certifications will need to be renewed after three years. This way PeopleCert can assist candidates in their lifelong journey and inspire them to keep on developing their professional skills.

All certifications have to be renewed every three years and there will be three main renewal paths available:

  1. Retake the same exam: you can renew your certification by retaking the original exam before the renewal date.
  2. Take further courses and certifications: you can renew your certifications by attending another course and taking another exam, within the same product suite, before the renewal date.
  3. Collect and log CPD points: you can renew and keep your certification by collecting and logging so-called CPD (continuing professional development) points. More information will be provided soon.

Renewing a certification for current certification holders

If you are already certified in one of the Best Practices that PeopleCert offers, you will have to follow one of the above renewal paths in order to keep your certification. This means that:

If certified before June 2020: candidates will have until 1 July 2023 to renew their certification, regardless of their original award date. If certified after June 2020: candidates will have to renew their certification(s) within 3 years of the original award date. The Continuing Professional Development programme will be for all global best practice certification groups which include:

  • ITIL® 4
  • PRINCE2® 5th and 6th
  • PRINCE2® Agile
  • MSP®4th and 5th
  • MoP®
  • P3O®

How to log your CPD Points each year

You can further develop your professional skills by logging CPD points through the MyAxelos portal.

To keep your current certifications valid, CPD points can be logged against an individual or multiple certifications. For each Product Suite, candidates must submit at least 20 CPD points each year, across different categories of CPD, for three years consecutively. At the end of this period, your certification renew-by date will be extended by three years, and the cycle will repeat.

These points must be submitted by the date on which you originally passed your most recent exam within the Product Suite. For example, if you originally passed the exam on 1st April, your 20 CPD points must be logged by 1st April each year.

What are the PeopleCert Product Suites?

Renewing a certification can be done within the same product suite. An ITIL® 4 certification will not be renewed by obtaining a PRINCE2® certification, but could be renewed by taking any other ITIL 4 certification, such as ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support.

Product suites are as follows:

  • ITIL 4 Product Suite: All ITIL 4 certifications
  • Project, Programme & Portfolio Management Product Suite: PRINCE2®, PRINCE2® Agile, MoR®, MSP®, MoV®, MoP®, P3O

What are the different categories of CPD points?

Below you can find some examples (a more extensive overview can be found on the PeopleCert website):

  • Professional experience: applying best practice in the workplace or coaching colleagues in relation to best practice
  • Professional education: PeopleCert certifications or other certifications from non-PeopleCert accredited training organisations
  • Community: organising or attending industry or best practice related events

For any questions, please reach out to us anytime or have a look at PeopleCert’s website. Source: https://www.peoplecert.org/ways-to-get-certified/keep-your-certification-current/renew-your-certifications

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Date: 04/04/2023
This year, QRP participated with the Mattei Foundation in the charity program of the Lenovo Marathon of Milan in order to support the Gaslini Institute. This annual sporting event attracts runners from all over the world to participate in the 42 km race through the city of Milan, Italy. The route goes through the historic streets of Milan, offering spectacular views of the city's main monuments and buildings. The encouragement from the spectators was a real driving force for the runners throughout. By running the relay marathon, Adélaide, Maarten, Rémi, and Giacomo have contributed to raising funds for the Gaslini Institute. These funds will facilitate the structural, technological and digital improvement of the hospital and the humanization of its environment for welcoming families.

The Gaslini Institute

The Gaslini Institute is one of the largest and most important pediatric hospitals in Italy and Europe, a center of excellence for treatment, research and health training dedicated to children. Specialized in complex treatments, disabling pathologies, rare and chronic diseases, the Gaslini Institute takes care of children from birth to adulthood. The Institute has been a national and international benchmark for modern pediatrics and perinatal medicine for 84 years. It is equipped with 400 beds, 25,000 hospitalizations and 500,000 outpatient services per year, 20 pavilions and 2,000 employees. If you would also like to contribute to our fundraiser for Gaslini, please visit the donation page.
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Date: 14/11/2022
From the 14th to the 27th November 2022 we offer you a 30% discount on all our E-learning courses!     Have a look at our E-learning offer and choose between:
E-Learning PackagesLanguages availablePrice
ITIL FoundationEnglish French German€ 413 instead of € 590
PRINCE2 FoundationEnglish French€ 413 instead of € 590
PRINCE2 PractitionerEnglish French€ 413 instead of € 590
PRINCE2 CombiEnglish French€ 735 instead of € 1050
AgilePM FoundationEnglish French€ 413 instead of € 590
NEW! PRINCE2 Agile FoundationEnglish€ 413 instead of € 590
 

6 good reasons to choose the E-Learning platform

  1. Explanatory videos: our experts have cooked up a series of clear and interactive videos to teach you the method, help you pass your exam(s), and apply it to your projects.
  2. Interactive readings: the interactive readings further explain some key concepts. You can use these readings if you are interested in learning more about the recommended actions when applying the method.
  3. Mock exam questions: in each lesson you will find a number of multiple choice questions to simulate the real exam experience.
  4. 6 months access minimum: take the time you need: You will have access to the online learning platform for 6 to 10 months (depending on the online course). Within these months you can set your own schedule and divide the course as you like.
  5. MemoTrainer: QRP uses the MemoTrainer™ system designed to challenge learners by selective repetition and smart exercises to activate knowledge and stimulate long term memory.
  6. Tutor support: our elearning solution is based on an easy structure and meant to be self explanatory. Even so, every participant is unique and to make sure that you feel confident with every next step of your study approach you can contact your tutor if you have any questions about the lessons you just covered.

The offer is valid from the 14th to the 27th of November and is limited to 3 E-learning packages per company.

Do you have further questions? Contact us or visit our page!

 
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Date: 25/10/2022

We are happy to announce that QRP International is one of the launching partners of the PM² Group. The PM² Group is a non-profit consortium of professionals and organisations that facilitate and promote the usage of the PM² project management methodology.

What is the PM² Project Management Methodology?

PM² is a project management methodology developed by the European Commission. Its purpose is to enable Project Managers to deliver solutions and benefits to their organisations by effectively managing the entire lifecycle of their projects. PM² has been developed and supported by the European Union Institutions, with their projects in mind but is transferable to projects in any organisation.

Until the end of 2016, the PM² Methodology and Certification was only available to the staff of EU institutions. With the OpenPM² Initiative, the European Commission decided to provide open access to the PM² Project Management Methodology beyond purely EU institutions and including Contractors, Member States and finally all European citizens. PM² captures the experience of EU institutions from managing thousands of projects, change initiatives, programmes and grants.

What is the purpose of the PM² Group?

The purpose of the PM Group is to facilitate access to PM² learning materials, training, and PM² Certification for non-EU staff members. The PM² group is the first public PM² certification program to comply with the internal certification program of the European Commission for EU staff.

Like all the other members, QRP International is an active contributor and supporter of the PM² Methodology and works to establish a foundation for better and more efficient European projects.

The PM² Group is the first organisation to offer a public certification based on the internal certification guidelines of the European Commission with the same certification levels for theoretical and practical knowledge.

Why choose the PM² Group Certification?

The PM² Group offers PM² Project Management Methodology courses in accordance with the European Commission, Centre of Excellence in PM² (CoEPM²), to non-EU staff. QRP International is part of the PM² Group, the only certification institute that meets the European Commission’s standards. Both certification programmes have exams with the same covered topics, the required level of understanding, number of questions, passing score, and exam time. For the first time, non-EU staff can now be certified the same way as EU staff.

In short, the PM² Group Certification:

  • Offers a Programme and exam which align 100% to the EU syllabus
  • Is equivalent to the internal EU Certification programme
  • Is available in multiple European languages, among which English, French, Italian, Spanish & German

Who is the PM² Group Certification for?

PM² helps establish a common project management language and process for projects across organisations, increase effectiveness, collaboration efficiency and success in the coordination of projects in the EU. Using PM² is especially effective for managing projects within:

  • European institutions
  • Public Administrations and non-governmental organisations
  • Service Providers to these administrations and institutions
  • European coordinated or funded projects
  • Private companies with a significant project portfolio

The PM² Foundation certification is aimed at Project Managers and aspiring Project Managers. It is also relevant to other key staff involved in the design, development and delivery of projects.

Would you like to learn more about the PM² Project Management Methodology? Take a look at our website!

Want to know the story of PM²? Or would you like to read an example of PM² application? We have two blog posts for you:

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Date: 17/10/2022
Every year in October, the teams of the QRP Group, QRP International and QRPeople unite their forces to raise awareness for breast cancer. This year, we handed out "handmade" creations of Charlène and Manon from Atelier Celcius to have our employees proudly wear Pink October pins. In this way, QRP participates in its own way to support and raise awareness of the campaign against breast cancer. All profits of the pins are donated to the Breast Cancer Research. Why Pink October? Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in the world and is the main reason for death caused by cancer in women. It affects around 2.3 million women each year, which means 1 out of 8. The objective of Pink October is an organised screening programme within your country in order to detect breast cancer early and reduce mortality. If breast cancer is detected early, it can be cured in almost 90% of the cases. Pink October is a prevention campaign highlighting the risks of breast cancer and promoting scientific research as well as support for women and men (yes, men too!) who unfortunately are affected by this medical condition. Through our initiative (and all those organised around the world), we like to promote breast cancer screening. Useful links for more information #Every woman matters
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Date: 04/03/2022

At a time of unprecedented change, organisations are challenged by an extraordinary pace of technological innovation. Agile product delivery is needed, but is not enough anymore. Companies need business agility. This means that all departments need to use Lean and Agile practices to continually and proactively deliver innovative business solutions in a fast and efficient way. SAFe®, an enterprise framework for scaling agile, has the guidance to help organisations get there. It is an agility framework at scale, which means that instead of having an agile team it will imply an agile transformation for the complete organisation.

Leading SAFe

QRP International is now a Scaled Agile Bronze Transformation Partner. We offer the Leading SAFe training, which prepares for the SAFe 5 Agilist certification.

Scaled Agile Bronze Transformation Partner

The Leading SAFe course enables attendees to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise successfully into the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). After an introduction to SAFe, the training provides the best practises and methods to drive your Lean-Agile transformation.

Thanks to SAFe 5.0, your organisation can become the Agile business it needs to be and win in the digital age.

Why could SAFe be the best choice for you?

If you want to become a lean-agile leader, SAFe could be the best solution for you. The framework is well suited to complex projects with many teams involved. Some of the benefits of the framework:

  • It guarantees the technical agility of teams
  • It makes it easier to drive and support organisational change
  • It leverages the benefits of Agile, Scrum, Lean, DevOps and Kanban
  • It can support you in managing your projects with a higher degree of agility, thus providing stakeholders with faster feedback
  • The SAFe certification is recognized worldwide

Want to know more? Visit our page: SAFe certification

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