The Evaluation of Studies and Training in Information Technology: A Multicriteria Approach (*) Evangelia Krassadaki 1 , Evangelos Grigoroudis 1 , Nikolaos Matsatsinis 1 , Yannis Siskos 2 1 Technical University of Crete, Decision Support Systems Laboratory, University Campus, 73100, Chania, dsslab@ergasya.tuc.gr 2 University of Piraeus, Department of Informatics, 80, Karaoli & Dimitriou, 18534, Piraeus, ysiskos@unipi.gr Abstract The accreditation of information technology executive officers is being approached in this article as a problem of multicriteria decision analysis of professional skills, studies and vocational training. The proposed approach includes the analysis and modelling of the qualitative criteria that fall into the problem as well as the implementation of a set of multicriteria aggregation-disaggregation methods. In particular, it includes the presentation of the evaluation system for Basic, Postgraduate and Doctoral studies and Non-formal Vocational Training “with recognized” and “without recognized” title. For the evaluation of the Basic Studies a table has been drawn up with all the possible combinations based on the Greek model, and then the evaluation takes place through a multiplicative value function that has been assessed by a disaggregation method. The proposed evaluation approach is being applied to a particular example of candidate for accreditation. Keywords: Accreditation of skills, Information Technology, Multicriteria analysis 1. Introduction On a global level, the accreditation of skills and competences has troubled many researchers, mainly the intergovernmental organizations such as the European Council, the Cedefop organization, Unesco and OECD [3, 12, 4, 13]. The speculation is focused mainly on the development of commonly accepted methods through which a value will be attributed to the competences and skills acquired during the professional life. New skills and competences are acquired every day through non- formal or informal ways of learning, and particularly the learning acquired through professional experience or team work, self-education and self-training, work field training, etc. Especially in the last 5 to 10 years many European countries have introduced and enacted methodologies and systems for the identification, (*) This research has been financially supported by the European Union, Leonardo Da Vinci programme, no. EL/97/1/28132/PI/I.1.1.b/FPC