The European IT Certification Programme (EITC) is a globally recognized standard in advanced IT skills certification for the industry. In both programme load and formally certified IT competencies, it exceeds the ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) Certification Programme and is targeted at IT Professionals, rather than computer end-users, as is the case with the ECDL Certification.

A governing body and a licensing authority for the EITC (the European IT Certification Programme) is the European IT Certification Institute with headquarters based in Brussels, Belgium and with local office branches distributed in most European Union member states. The EITC is however not only an European IT certification standard in applicable sense – it is broadly accepted internationally in most countries outside the European Union (including countries in Americas, Asia and Africa continents).