European Information Technologies Certification

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The European Information Technologies Certification (EITC) programme is an international professional ICT knowledge and skills certification standard. It is developed and governed by the EITCI Institute, a non-profit organization based in Brussels that provides certification of individuals' knowledge and skills in narrow, specialized single-subject areas of ICT such as office software, computer-aided project management, online collaboration systems, and raster graphics processing. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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