This moment is one of symbolic banality, one that the institutions involved have worked towards for a long time; before teaching the first group of candidates, a lot of practicalities and technical details need to be adressed. The completion of this course indicates that a stage has ended, and ECo-C Hungary demonstrates that it has moved away from the preparation stages and into the self-sustaining spiral: training cycles, new students. There is little more that needs establishing, because now is the time of teachers and lessons.

This is a good time for any certificate, because with more and more people holding it (there are already 13,800 ECo-C holders in Austria, for instance), the name is more recognizable, and more understood; the inherent abilities implied by the degree gain a new layer to them: the gloss of international recognition, as people gradually come to recognize its importance.

This is even more true for our particular certificate.  When it comes to professional training, people can prize and appreciate specialist knowledge and expert work. And yet, without the existence of a common method, a common set of social and personal skills, the experts would remain prisoners of their insular worlds, defined by their skills but unable to augment each other’s work. Each work would be a proverbial Tower of Babel, missing a common medium of exchange to be a success.