Up to 40 international experts participated to the first ISO CASCO WG 30 meeting dedicated to the revision of the ISO 17024 standard. The meeting was held on Zoom the 21, 22 and 23 of March. Didier BLANC, EFCoCert Foundation President and competence certification expert is part of WG 30.

ISO 17024 sets the requirements applicable to the bodies operating certification of persons. The current version was published in 2012 and needed revision.

A very productive and dynamic cooperative work over the 3 meeting’s days allowed to figure out the essential dimensions and topics to be considered within the revision. Some examples:

    • Use and implication of artificial intelligence for certification of persons
    • Remote approaches
    • Certification schemes
    • Assessment processes (exams, soft skills, alternative to assessors, …)
    • Outsourcing
    • …

The next meeting, dedicated to the elaboration of a first working draft will be held in Geneva in July 2023.

EFCoCert Foundation has a unique expertise in developing, within EU Erasmus+ funded projects, ISO 17024 compliant competence certification schemes that can be used by bodies accredited against ISO 17024 for delivering certification services.

Some innovative assessment approaches developed by EFCoCert in this context – typically relying on an open-badge ecosystem-based recognition instead of formal assessments – will be brought into the revision, opening the spectrum of the competence recognition means.

Interested to see how it works? Just book a time slot on Didier’s calendar!

Dr Didier BLANC, EFCoCert President