October 13th, 2006, Joensuu, Finland: At the EuroSPI² in Finland, ISQI and the Austrian ISCN GmbH agreed on a close cooperation regarding the personnel certification standard "EU Certified Innovation Management". This authorizes iSQI to be certification body in Germany for three years.

The EU Innovation Manager is one of the standards that are in effect EU-wide and were developed within the Leonardo Project ORGANIC.

The scheme comprises Knowledge Management, Regional Innovation Strategies, Costumer Relationship, Innovation and EU Policies and Market Research.

Examinations will be hold by the Online Testing Portal. iSQI took part in its development beeing a member of the European Quality Network. iSQI is going to use this Online Testing Portal in the future for other standards as well.

Within a short time, first training courses will be offered in Germany, too.

Photo: Stephan Goericke (l.), Director iSQI, and Richard Messnarz (r.), Director ISCN

Further Information:
www.innovationmanager.org and
www.isqi.org