The following requirements must be fulfilled to become an IPI Certified Innovation Green Belt®. If you have further questions, please contact us by sending your message to info@ipinetwork.com or clicking the Contact Us button.   PREREQUISITES An applicant must be an IPI member in good standing.   COURSES TO BE COMPLETED Analysis and solution of system-related problems. Forecasting the evolution of a system.   PROJECTS TO BE CONDUCTED Analysis and solution of a system-related problem. Forecast of the evolution of a system.   COMMENTS AND CLARIFICATIONS Courses must be taught by an Authorized Certification Provider. A complete list of the Authorized Certification Providers can be found here. For a project that is a part of the certification process, the system constituting the project foundation could be a product (complete system, any sub-system, a part, etc.) or a process (a service or a manufacturing process in its entirety or any of the stages of the production / service life-cycle such as transportation, storage, etc.). A project on "Analysis and Solution of a System Related Problem" must address a failure of a system to achieve a respective goal. The nature of the failure must be either the presence of an undesired Event (for example, breakage of a part; overheating of an element; loss of functionality, etc.) or the absence of a desired Event (e.g. lack of heat transfer, separation of two mixed substances, etc.). A project on "Forecast of the Evolution of a System" consists of determining future generations of a system (a product or a process; see the above description) through applications of GTI-based tools such as Natural Laws of the Evolutionary Process, etc.