Services
About
The EuroSPI conference series (and book series) has been formed 1994 as a
leading conference in the area of System, Software, Services Process and
Product Improvement and innovation with contributions from leading
industry and leading research.
SOQRATES as working group of leading German and Austrian industry
started in 2003 and is moderated by the chair of EuroSPI since 2003 and
the working group contributes to the thematic workshops organized at
EuroSPI, to define state of the art in system design, safety and
cybersecurity, assessments, quality management, agile processes,
standards, etc.
The EuroSPI academy started in 2020 (based on the EU Blueprint project
DRIVES concept of a learning compass for European automotive industry) and
within a year has many hundred trained, and on DRIVES learning portal we
have more than 2000 MOOC trainees.
By end of 2024 we already achieved about 3000 certifications by the EuroSPI
academy. Certificates are valid 2 years and you find the defined
re-certification procedure here.
A re-certification costs 75 EUR per year and is paid in 2 years cycles
(150 EUR). There are different options to re-certify by experience
evidences. Please read the re-certification procedure to find out the
options.
The exam systems originally developed to support ECQA are now adapted and
integrated to support Europe wide certification and exams systems under
the European System, Software, Services Process Improvement EuroSPI
Certificates & Services GesmbH.
We now bundle this to a European initiative under one umbrella
and move all teams and services behind this aggregated bundled European
strategy.
Partner Companies
Working Groups
SOQRATES was launched in 2003 by the Bavarian SW
Initiative and the ASQF to launch SPICE in German industry. In the first year, 16 companies were
supported. After the first year (end of the financial support from the Bavarian SW Initiative), the
partners set up a task force with various working groups that deal with practical experience in
implementation. Knowledge acquired together is shared in the form of knowledge releases. Today
around 24 leading German and Austrian companies are partners and ISCN as one of the moderators from
2003 has acted as moderator of the task force since 2004, and Methodpark (also a moderator from
2003) operates the knowledge portals with the Stages system. Special work schemes such as
requirements management, functional safety and automotive SPICE, standard comparisons, system
design, agile development, test, traceability, etc. are exchanged and coordinated by leading
companies.
Together with IICM of TU Graz we estabished a Net
Interactive Document (NID) server with the abstracts and presentations of the EuroSPI conference.
How to use Net Interactive Documents you can find here.
How to use Net Interactive Documents you can find here.
Conference Materials
EuroSPI² conferences present and discuss results from
systems, software and services process improvement and innovation (SPI) projects in industry and
research, focusing on the gained benefits and the criteria for success. The presentations and
material from past conferences are available at the EuroSPI-Conference-Moodle. This Moodle-portal is also
used to share information at the event and to exchange ideas and brainstorm during workshops,
regardless of wether attendees are onsite or online.