This certificate can be awarded besides any legal degree the student may obtain from his home university. Courses can be attended across Europe and even may contain a considerable virtual component. A student should be acknowledged through the European Credit Transfer System. The prestige from the certificate should come from the professional organisation and from prospective employers who value it. No doubt that the difficult part in such a scheme is the accreditation body.
Many challenging tasks are still ahead.
The continuation of networking is an essential part of it. The dangers are shown in Figure 1 which shows a clear drop in activities in the poorly financed phase between Erasmus and Socrates programmes. To assure this continuation, the network could try to raise financial support from its members and to organise itself as an independent organisation. This may be feasible for networks that unite full faculties but our field is probably too small for that. An alternative lies in an embedding in a professional organisation which takes the responsibility for continuing activities in the area of education and training.