Certify your ESG practice for the CSRD era
Psychometric assessment of your ESG practice: double materiality, ESRS-compliant reporting and sustainability communication with credibility before investors, auditors and boards. Built with the CSRD 2022 as its regulatory anchor.
From knowing the regulation to being able to operate within it
The CSRD changed the European corporate sustainability landscape fundamentally. Investors, auditors, and boards no longer accept declarative knowledge — they want to know whether you can design double materiality processes, produce compliant ESRS disclosures, and make ESG decisions under real regulatory pressure.
Existing ESG certifications certify knowledge. EASEC-ESG·C certifies practice.
From voluntary reporting to legal obligation
Companies exceeding CSRD thresholds must now disclose ESG data under ESRS with audit-grade quality and auditability. Knowing the standard is no longer enough — the obligation is to produce disclosures that withstand independent assurance.
Process quality, not framework knowledge
Assurance providers do not test whether you know GRI or SASB. They assess whether your double materiality methodology is defensible, your data governance is auditable, and your disclosure decisions are supported by documented professional judgement.
Situational judgement under regulatory pressure
42 professional scenarios measuring your capacity to design materiality processes, produce compliant disclosures, and make ESG decisions when internal pressure conflicts with regulatory obligation — the exact conditions auditors and boards evaluate.
Are you CSRD-ready — beyond knowing the regulation by heart?
See how the assessment worksThe complete cycle of ESG competence
Seven dimensions assessed across 42 professional scenarios — each one a real ESG decision where regulatory knowledge alone is not enough.
ESG Regulatory Frameworks & CSRD
How you operate within the European legal framework, not just how you describe it. This dimension evaluates your capacity to navigate the CSRD, the ESRS, and the broader EU sustainable finance regulatory architecture — interpreting obligations correctly under time pressure and making decisions that hold up to independent assurance.
Sustainability Reporting & Disclosure
How you produce disclosures with the quality that an audit requires. This dimension assesses your capacity to design disclosure processes that are accurate, traceable, and defensible — selecting which data to report, how to document methodology, and how to respond when assurance providers question the evidence behind a disclosure.
Materiality Analysis & Stakeholder Engagement
How you design and conduct double materiality processes. This is the central competency of the instrument under the CSRD: the ability to apply impact materiality and financial materiality independently, engage stakeholder groups with conflicting inputs, and produce a defensible material topic list that withstands scrutiny from auditors and investors.
Climate Strategy & Net Zero Transition
How you translate climate commitments into operational strategy. This dimension evaluates your capacity to develop science-based transition plans, assess physical and transition risks under the TCFD framework, and make credible net zero commitments that connect to the company's actual business model — not just its communications.
Diversity, Equity & Social Impact
How you manage the social dimension of ESG within the organisation. This dimension assesses your ability to design measurable DEI programmes, assess social impacts in the value chain, and produce social disclosures under ESRS S1–S4 that go beyond headline metrics to reflect the actual conditions of the workforce and affected communities.
Corporate Governance & ESG Compliance
How you integrate ESG into the real governance of the organisation. This dimension evaluates your capacity to embed ESG responsibilities into board structures, executive incentives, and internal control frameworks — and to navigate the compliance obligations that arise when ESG commitments intersect with legal reporting requirements under ESRS G1.
ESG Communication & Credibility
How you communicate with rigour and without falling into greenwashing — before investors, boards, and regulators. This dimension assesses your capacity to translate complex ESG data into credible narratives, identify the boundary between legitimate communication and misleading claims, and respond effectively when the accuracy of a sustainability communication is challenged.
Materiality scenarios, pressure, and the boardroom
Respond
42 situational judgement items — real scenarios of double materiality, greenwashing pressure, and board challenges. Completed online, with no prior course required.
42 items
Scenarios
45–90 min
Est. time
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Automated scoring against EQF reference levels using Item Response Theory. A detailed report across all 7 dimensions at 5 proficiency levels — from Initial to Expert — with dimension-by-dimension feedback.
Get certified
Independently verifiable credentials shareable directly on LinkedIn. Valid for 3 years, issued through cert.easec.eu.
No prior course required · No pass / fail threshold · Built with CSRD 2022 and ESRS as regulatory anchors. The result is a scored ESG practice profile — independent of the organisation you work for and verifiable by any auditor, investor, or board.
That's it. No course, no prerequisites —
just your ESG judgement in real scenarios.
The frameworks that govern the ESG profession
That you can translate CSRD requirements into real organisational action.
Designing materiality processes, producing compliant disclosures, and communicating sustainability with the credibility that investors, auditors, and boards demand — not as a course attendee, but as a practitioner.
Can your team evidence its CSRD competence — to an auditor?
Certify your ESG and reporting team under one group licence — verifiable evidence of competence for auditors, boards and investors.
Questions ESG professionals ask most.
Yes. EASEC-ESG·C was built with CSRD 2022 and the ESRS as primary regulatory anchors, reflecting the standards applicable to the first wave of in-scope companies. The instrument specifically evaluates double materiality — the central competency required by the CSRD — across Dimension 3 and throughout the scenario set.
EASEC measures professional competence in specialised domains — and ESG is one of them. What this instrument evaluates is the professional judgement behind technical ESG decisions: a real materiality scenario, a greenwashing situation, a board challenge. Not generic communication or leadership skills. The 7 dimensions are built around CSRD, ESRS, GRI, and ISSB — the frameworks that govern the profession.
Existing ESG certifications — GRI, SASB, national programmes — are primarily formative and knowledge-centred. EASEC-ESG·C adds the demonstrated practice layer that auditors and boards increasingly require: evidence that you can apply the frameworks, not just recall them. They are complementary, not competing. Many practitioners will hold both.
There is no pass or fail threshold. You receive your full profile at the level your responses demonstrate, with dimension-by-dimension feedback at 5 EQF-aligned proficiency levels from Initial to Expert. The instrument reveals your current practice accurately — it does not filter you out.
An Open Badge 3.0 and a Europass Digital Credential — both shareable directly on LinkedIn and independently verifiable by any institution, investor, or board. Valid for 3 years, issued through cert.easec.eu/certificates/verify.
EASEC-ESG·C produces psychometric evidence of ESG practice competency — independent of course attendance records. Organisations use it to demonstrate to auditors and boards that their sustainability team has the professional capability to implement CSRD obligations, not just describe them. The EQF-aligned Europass credential provides structured evidence that can be included in compliance documentation and supplier qualification frameworks.
The EQF 5–7 range covers mid-to-senior ESG practice, making the instrument most relevant for sustainability managers, ESG directors, CSR professionals, and sustainability reporting leads who are already operating within the CSRD regulatory environment. For professionals entering the field, the dimension-by-dimension profile is also a precise development roadmap — showing exactly where practice gaps exist relative to the CSRD standard.
Double materiality is the central competency of Dimension 3 — Materiality Analysis & Stakeholder Engagement — and the most heavily weighted dimension in the instrument. Scenarios in this dimension present real situations where impact materiality and financial materiality must be applied independently, stakeholder inputs are conflicting, and scope decisions are challenged by internal pressure. This is the dimension where the gap between knowing the CSRD and being able to implement it is widest.
Demonstrate that you are ready for the CSRD era.
Assess your ESG competence in real scenarios and obtain the profile that investors, auditors, and boards can verify.
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