Participants are taught core knowledge and skills directly related to quality of testing data as addressed in the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard. Apart from this, because of the way the school is designed, participants are intensively trained in transferable as well as entrepreneurial skills, such as those needed for planning, time management, intercultural communication, team play and leadership.

You started working in a testing laboratory recently? Or you are being asked to take up more management responsibilities? Or you wonder how the 2017 version of the standard has changed? Plenty of good reasons to follow this International Summer School on ISO/IEC 17025:2017. We will teach you about the requirements of this standard and how to interpret and apply these. This residential school lasts for two weeks.

And … it's also great fun!

The organisers always make sure that apart from high quality teaching, there is also a great social programme.
The conference venue is a castle. Křtiny is situated in the south of Czechia, in Moravia, a region with great nature and history which you will be able to sample!

The school is not about you just listening to some lectures. We try to keep those to a minimum. Before the school starts, you can follow an e-course in a self-paced mode, so we bring everybody up to the same level. We apply interactive and problem based learning. You will be engaged in a “game”, a testing challenge, where you will be part of a team who carries out tests for a customer who wants to know whether their product is compliant.
A laboratory is set up for this at the venue. You will even be taught how to be an accreditation assessor and then act as an assessor during a visit to an accredited laboratory.
Participation is truly global. Over the past editions, there have been 620 participants, from 56 different countries and from 4 different continents.

A long tradition of quality teaching

The international school was initiated by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, in view of the importance of quality assured testing data in the context of globalization, international trade and many
other policy areas.
This year will be the 17th year that this summer school takes place. The teachers who have been running the school for the past 16 years have extensive experience
either lecturing in analytical science, working in an accredited laboratory or acting as an accreditation assessor.

Send a motivation letter and your CV by 15 March 2024 to  [email protected] .

We are forced to limit the number of students to 40 places (because of laboratory activities). So, be fast!