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    ECTS Credit Recommendation

    The Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) has certified 15 Professional Certificates from Google and IBM, with European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) credit recommendations available exclusively on Coursera.


    Universities and learners across 49 member countries in the EHEA and Bologna Process can now recognize, transfer and earn ECTS credits for these industry certificates towards a degree, supporting accessible, flexible learner mobility in higher education.

    Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in cybersecurity. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Understand the importance of cybersecurity practices and their impact for organizations.
    • Identify common risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, as well as techniques to mitigate them.
    • Protect networks, devices, people, and data from unauthorized access and cyberattacks using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
    • Gain hands-on experience with Python, Linux, and SQL.

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 7
    • Workload: approximately 166 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.
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    Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in data analytics. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Explore the roles of data professionals within an organization
    • Create data visualizations and apply statistical methods to investigate data
    • Build regression and machine learning models to analyze and interpret data
    • Communicate insights from data analysis to stakeholders

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 8
    • Workload: approximately 201 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.
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    Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in business intelligence. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Explore the roles of business intelligence (BI) professionals within an organization
    • Practice data modeling and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes that meet organizational goals
    • Design data visualizations that answer business questions
    • Create dashboards that effectively communicate data insights to stakeholders

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 3
    • Workload: approximately 76 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.
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    Google Project Management: Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in project management. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Gain an immersive understanding of the practices and skills needed to succeed in an entry-level project management role
    • Learn the foundations of Agile project management, with a focus on implementing Scrum events, building Scrum artifacts, and understanding Scrum roles
    • Learn how to create effective project documentation and artifacts throughout the various phases of a project

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 6
    • Workload: approximately 152 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits.
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    Google Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in digital marketing. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Measure marketing performance through analytics and present insights
    • Build e-commerce stores, analyze online performance, and grow customer loyalty
    • Learn the fundamentals of digital marketing and e-commerce to gain the skills needed to land an entry-level job

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 7
    • Workload: approximately 166 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate

    Learn in-demand skills like Python, Git and IT automation to advance your career.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Automate tasks by writing Python scripts
    • Manage IT resources at scale, both for physical machines and virtual machines in the cloud
    • Use Git and GitHub for version control

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 5
    • Workload: approximately 113 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    Google IT Support Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in IT. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Learn to perform day-to-day IT support tasks including computer assembly, wireless networking, installing programs, and customer service
    • Learn how to provide end-to-end customer support, ranging from identifying problems to troubleshooting and debugging
    • Learn to use systems including Linux, Domain Name Systems, Command-Line Interface, and Binary Code

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 5
    • Workload: approximately 137 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF level 5 for their designated ECTS credits
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    Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in Data Analytics. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Gain an immersive understanding of the practices and processes used by a junior or associate data analyst in their day-to-day job
    • Learn key analytical skills (data cleaning, analysis, and visualization) and tools (spreadsheets, SQL, R programming, Tableau)
    • Understand how to clean and organize data for analysis, and complete analysis and calculations using spreadsheets, SQL and R programming

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 7
    • Workload: approximately 187 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    Google UX Design Professional Certificate

    Get on the fast track to a career in UX design. In this certificate program, you’ll learn in-demand skills at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Follow the design process: empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, create wireframes and prototypes, test and iterate on designs
    • Understand the basics of UX research, like planning research studies, conducting interviews and usability studies, and synthesizing research results
    • Apply foundational UX concepts, like user-centered design, accessibility, and equity-focused design

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 9
    • Workload: approximately 234 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

    Get ready to launch your career in cybersecurity. Build job-ready skills for an in-demand role in the field, no degree or prior experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Gain skills for incident responses and forensics with real-world cybersecurity case studies
    • Develop knowledge of cybersecurity analyst tools including data protection; endpoint protection; SIEM; and systems and network fundamentals
    • Learn about key compliance and threat intelligence topics important in today’s cybersecurity landscape

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 4
    • Workload: approximately 128 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 80%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate

    Prepare for a career as a data analyst. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in as little as 4 months. No prior experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Develop working knowledge of Python language for analyzing data using Python libraries like Pandas and Numpy, and invoke APIs and web services
    • Master the most up-to-date practical skills and tools that data analysts use in their daily roles
    • Learn how to visualize data and present findings using various charts in Excel spreadsheets and BI tools like IBM Cognos Analytics & Tableau

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 6
    • Workload: approximately 151 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 70%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    IBM Data Analytics with Excel and R Professional Certificate

    Prepare for a career in data analytics. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in less than 3 months. No prior experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Utilize Excel spreadsheets to perform a variety of data analysis tasks like data wrangling, using pivot tables, data mining, and creating charts
    • Communicate your data findings using various data visualization techniques including, charts, plots & interactive dashboards with Cognos and R Shiny
    • Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge data analysts use in their daily lives

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 4
    • Workload: approximately 124 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 70%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    IBM Data Engineering Professional Certificate

    Prepare for a career as a Data Engineer. Gain in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in less than 5 months. No prior experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge data engineers use in their daily lives
    • Develop working knowledge of NoSQL & Big Data using MongoDB, Cassandra, Cloudant, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Spark ML, and Spark Streaming
    • Learn to create, design, & manage relational databases & apply database administration (DBA) concepts to RDBMSs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and IBM Db2

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 8
    • Workload: approximately 217 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 70%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

    Prepare for a career as a data scientist. Develop in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in as little as 5 months. No prior experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge that data scientists use in their daily roles
    • Import and clean data sets, analyze and visualize data, and build machine learning models and pipelines
    • Learn the tools, languages, and libraries use by professional data scientists, including Python and SQL

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 6
    • Workload: approximately 165 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 70%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF level 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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    IBM Full Stack Software Developer Professional Certificate

    Prepare for a career as a full-stack developer. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job-ready in less than 4 months. No prior experience required.

    Learning outcomes:

    • Master the most up-to-date practical skills and tools that full-stack developers use in their daily lives
    • Develop software with front-end development languages and tools such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Bootstrap
    • Learn how to deploy and scale applications using Cloud Native methodologies and tools such as Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Serverless

    Additional information:

    • Recommended credits: 6
    • Workload: approximately 141 hours
    • Minimum passing score: 70%
    • The learning outcomes and skills acquired can be recognized as modules in subsequent educational courses, with a recommendation for recognition at EQF levels 5 and 6 for their designated ECTS credits
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