​In accordance with a decision of the CEPA Board, efforts will be made in 2020 to have the qualifications obtained in the CEPA main course allocated in the Austrian National Qualifications Register (NQR) in order to complete the course with a certificate.

For this reason, a workshop was held in Vienna on 11 February 2020 by representatives of the National Liaison Offices  of the CEPA. At this workshop a draft guideline for the acquisition of such a qualification was developed. In particular, the description of the qualification, the design of the training in terms of access requirements, duration, teachers, qualification assurance, etc. and the design of the final examination in terms of examination content, evaluation criteria, examiners, result evaluation, award of certificate, etc. were developed and formulated.

This guideline should be the basis for the submission of the qualification. Further work on this will be done by the Austrian National Liaison Office in close coordination and further working meetings with the National Liaison Offices of the other CEPA countries.

It is planned to submit the qualification in 2020.