Dispatchers? What are they?
For all FOO/Dispatchers to understand the issues better, the roles must be defined. I know, for example, that some large airlines have split up the "Dispatcher" function into small jobs.
Thus you could have a flight planner, load planner, loadsheet production person, ground ops coordinator, flight ops coordinator, met manager, aircraft dispatcher (departure manager) and so on. This thread seems to relate to a job that encompasses all these things and possibly more.
Each of these functions has it's own training programme and licensing is managed internally by the airline on a "certificate of competence" basis.
From the airline point of view, this keeps training costs (and training time) to a minimum and makes it easy and cheap to replace people who leave.
Surely the first task of EASA is to define the role to be covered by a licence?