Certificate Project
The aim of the Certificate Project is to unify the criteria for describing particular educational institutions and their educational activities. IES certifies educational institutions and their educational programmes. The standard output of the certification are internationally comparable certificates that clearly and explicitly declare where and what the student studied and to what extent. The certificates also specify the standard of the lecturers of the particular educational programme. IES describes the current level of the educational institution and its products by means of international certificates. IES does not describe quality, as the quality of an educational institution is not an unambiguous and precisely defined term and an understanding thereof depends on the expectations of the future graduate, employer etc. For its reason IES describes the situation only on the basis of precisely defined criteria.
The most important information about the International IES Certificate is a code comprising six items (1.continent, 2.state, 3. rating of the educational institution, 4.content of the educational programme, 5. rating of the lecturers of the particular educational programme, 6.identification number under which the graduate can be found in the IES database).
The International IES Certificates are usually issued in English and in translation into the official language. Official translations into other languages (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Vietnamese) can also be provided. Information about the international certificates issued to individual graduates is published on the internet on this website under the link “Issued certificates”. This is for easy and swift verification of the authenticity of the issued certificates.
IES regularly informs the Chambers of Commerce of all European countries about the Certificate Project. The information about the certified educational institutions, their programmes and graduates is kept in the IES database for a minimum of 20 years. Upon the request of the certified institution, IES also informs any number of institutions about the certification performed.