This will be achieved via education, training, consulting, hosting, and certification not only in terms of tools and platforms but also methodologies, studies, and best practices.

Competence Centres are federated in a Network that will work as a mechanism for sharing success stories, failures, questions, recommendations, best practices, and any kind of information that could help the establishment of a solid international collaborative environment for supporting quality Free Open Source Software. New competence centres can be admitted to the Qualipso Network after their proposals are evaluated by the Qualipso Network Board to ensure that the prospective Competence Centre is compliant with the Qualipso Network Agreement, sharing a common vision and ethics.

Each Competence Centre will act in its geographical region to increase the awareness of Free Open Source and to better prepare the IT workforce for developing and using open source solutions, based on the results of the Qualipso project. Competence Centres will put into practice the outcomes of the activities of the Qualipso research project; they will make these results available both to the Free Open Source community and to the industry and will promote them at large through communication and dissemination programmes.