Starting from 2023, PeopleCert announced that 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. Besides retaking the same exam or taking further courses and certifications, the third option is collecting and logging CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points.

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.

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.

Are you looking for a light, lean, concrete and equipped project methodology? Participate in our webinar and discover PM², the European Commission's project management method. PM² is a flexible and modular project management methodology that can be adapted according to the needs of any project. It consists of three main phases: initiation, planning and execution. The methodology also includes monitoring and evaluation activities to ensure the project’s quality. PM² is designed for use in projects of all sizes and complexities. It is particularly suitable for projects that involve multidisciplinary teams and external partners, such as research and development projects. To help project management professionals better understand and apply the PM² methodology, we are hosting a free webinar available in four different languages. This webinar will cover the main concepts and practices of PM².

PM² Project Management: harmonisation and united in diversity - Webinar

We invited our experts Natacha Brenner (EN/FR/DE) & Eusebio Gianodomenico (IT) to host the webinar. In just 30 minutes the webinar aims to provide an overview of the PM² methodology and seeks to clarify what makes the methodology stand out. Our experts will highlight the advantages of using PM² in an interactive way. Questions and active participation are encouraged! Choose your language and register to one of our webinars:

ENGLISH - May 11, 2023 11:00 AM

"PM² Project Management: harmonisation and united in diversity"

FRENCH - June 15, 2023 11:00 AM

"Gestion de projet PM² : harmonisation et solidarité dans la diversité"

GERMAN - May 30, 2023 11:00 AM

"PM²: Harmonisierung und in Vielfalt geeint"

ITALIAN - June 13, 2023 11:00 AM

"PM² Project Management: armonia ed unità nella diversità"

We are glad to announce that we will continue organising our User groups and other onsite events this year. As QRP International seeks to develop professionals, we started organising User Groups some years ago. The support that we can bring to professionals by not only training them, but also helping them succeed in implementing Best Practices, means a lot to us. Our User Groups are a unique opportunity for professionals to learn and grow. We showcase user stories but also seek to have professionals interact, discuss and network.

QRP International currently organises three different User Groups, one within the theme of the PMO, one for those working in IT Service Management and one that focuses only on the healthcare sector. We decided to have three small and tight communities in order to be able to offer content that really matters for the professional. Communication and updates are shared by means of a newsletter.

PMO User Group

The road to successfully implementing a Best Practice is often hard and lonely as a strategic PMO is just a few (or even one) person(s) within a large organisation. Our PMO User Group has the aim to respond to this need. The goal is to bring similar backgrounds and profiles together to discuss specific topics within PMO management.

We have planned three different PMO User Groups this year, all we held onsite in Brussels. Speakers and specific topics will be decided and communicated in the course of the year. Write down the following dates in your calendar;

• 20 June
• 28 November

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ITIL User Group

You have followed the course, passed the exam and are now a proud owner of an ITIL certificate. But what do you do next, how do you actually apply ITIL on a daily basis? ITIL is created to adopt and adapt, to tailor to your organisation, but that is easier than said. That is why we organise these user groups; to get the users together. Write down the following dates in your calendar;

• 22 June
• 29 November

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Healthcare User Groups

Our Healthcare User Groups aim to specifically help the hospitals with setting up their PMO. We choose to target them specifically as their sector is very different then others and there is little communication between the different hospitals. With our User Group, we create a free place where Hospital PMO or ITIL users can find one another. Write down the following dates in your calendar;

• 20 September - PMO FR
• 21 September - ITIL FR
• 22 September - PMO NL

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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 will 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®
• PRINCE2® Agile
• MSP®
• MoP®
• P3O®

For any questions, please reach out to us anytime.

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:  

6 Reasons to choose an E-Learning Training

1. Explanatory videos: our experts created 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 go deeper into some key concepts; so you can refer to these readings if you would like to learn 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 to study as you will have access to the online learning platform for 6 to 10 months (depending on the online course you chose), so within this time frame you can set your own schedule and divide the workload 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 E-learning solution is based on an easy structure and meant to be self explanatory, however for any questions you might have you can contact your tutor 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. Book your E-learning now!   For any questions; feel free to contact us.