Become a QGIS certified training organisation ¶

Is your organisation an active member of the QGIS community and offering high-quality training courses with QGIS? Then consider applying for the QGIS Certification Programme. As a member, you’ll be able to issue the official QGIS certificate to participants of your courses, workshops and training. Each certificate contributes €20 to QGIS.

If you’re looking for organisations that offer training with the official QGIS certificate, check the current list of members of the QGIS Certification Programme.

Certification Process ¶

Requirements ¶

The QGIS Certification Programme is designed to promote both community involvement in the QGIS project and quality education for QGIS software. The application process requires applicants to detail their contributions to the QGIS project and make their training materials available for review. Contributions to the QGIS project include activities such as:

• Development/commits to QGIS
• Contributions to the QGIS documentation and training materials
• Translation of QGIS materials
• Authoring plugins
• Filing bug reports
• Financially supporting new feature development
• Financial contributions to and sponsorship of QGIS
• Involvement in your local QGIS User Group
• Publication of open QGIS course ware
• Authoring QGIS books

Application ¶

You are required to provide the training material for each of your courses. This includes exercises, lectures and data. This material will be reviewed for currentness, accurate representation of the QGIS project and overall quality. If the material is not of adequate quality, this can be cause for refusal.

Following an initial review, the application will be sent to local QGIS User Groups for their opinion. This part of the review should be completed within a month. If there is not a local QGIS User Group, the QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) will make a determination based on material provided and your reputation in the community. In this latter case, you are encouraged to establish a local QGIS User Group. If you are not considered a member in good standing of the QGIS community, this could be a reason for refusal.

The PSC will make the final determination. If accepted as a QGIS Certified Organization, your contributions to the project will be published for transparency.

If approved, you are required to pay a €20 certification fee to the QGIS project for each certificate you issue. This creates a mechanism for financial support of the project. Payments for certificates are made either using online credit card transactions or on request by regular invoice and SEPA wire transfer. Payments can be handled in batches for many certificates at once.

You can apply using this form (make sure to first create a login). You can find more details about the certification programme here (we advise you to read this before registering).

To contact the certification team, please write to certification@qgis.org.