Transcript EUR-ACE presentation

International Forum
Higher Education Quality Assurance
20-22 November 2007, Moscow, Russia
PRO-EAST project final Seminar
21 November 2007
Implementation of EUR-ACE Standards
Giuliano Augusti
Coordinator, EUR-ACE-IMPLEMENTATION project
President, ENAEE (www.enaee.eu)
Accreditation of an Engineering
Education Programme
(according to EUR-ACE and ENAEE)
• Result of a process to ensure suitability of programme
as entry route to the [engineering] profession
• Periodic assessment against accepted standards
• Peer review of written and oral information by trained and
independent panels including academics and professionals
• Accreditation of programme, not of Department or
University
• Accreditation of education, not of whole formation
Quality of accredited degrees
guaranteed at all “levels”
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The EUR-ACE project (2004/06)
elaborated a synthesis of existing national Standards:
EUR-ACE Framework Standards for the
Accreditation of Engineering Programmes
and a proposal for the Organization and Management of
the
EUR-ACE Accreditation System
The accreditation system envisaged by this
proposal, and now being implemented, is a
true novelty on the global scale.
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As a first step for implementation of the EUR-ACE
system, the former “European Standing
Observatory for Engineering Profession and
Education” (ESOEPE) was transformed into a
registered international not-for-profit Association:
the European Network for Accreditation
of Engineering Education ENAEE
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Official birth date: 8 February 2006
First General Assembly: 30 March 2007
Founding members:
FEANI (acting Secretariat) RAEE (RU)
SEFI
CoPI (IT)
UNIFI/TREE
IEI-EngineersIreland
EUROCADRES
OE (Ordem...) (PT)
EC (UK)
UAICR (RO)
CTI (FR)
IDA (DK)
ASIIN (DE)
FOTEP/BBT (CH)
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First General Assembly: 30 March 2006
Second “
“ : 17 November 2006
Third
“
“ : 14 November 2007
New members
Admitted at the Second General Assembly (17/11/2006)
CLAIU
MÜDEK (TR)
Admitted at the Third General Assembly (14/11/2007)
IGIP
Envisaged future member
BEST
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At present (2007), ENAEE is implementing the EUR-ACE
system, also thanks to two EU projects:
Under the “Socrates” programme:
EUR-ACE IMPLEMENTATION (in the EU) (2006/08)
Under the “Tempus-Tacis” programme:
PRO-EAST: PROmotion and implementation of the EUR-ACE
STandards (in Russia) (2006/07)
ENAEE is involved also in a project under the “Tempus-Meda” programme:
LEPAC: Creation of a Lebanese Engineering Programs
Accreditation Commission (2006/08)
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PROmotion and implementation of the
EUR-ACE Standards [ PRO-EAST ]
A project under the TEMPUS-TACIS programme
(October 2006 - November 2007)
Participating Institutions:
UNIFI, RAEE, FEANI, CoPI, SEFI, TPU
• Project coordinator: Oleg Boev
• Deputy coordinator for EU: Giuliano Augusti
• External experts: Iring Wasser, Ian Freeston.
Main aims (both achieved!!!!):
• Dissemination of the EUR-ACE results
• Award of the first EUR-ACE labels in Russia
(21/11/2007): This is the Final Seminar of the project
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EUR-ACE system
KEY POINTS:
• NOT an European Directive
• NOT an European Accreditation Board
• A bottom-up agreement towards a decentralized
accreditation system in which:
• Accreditation is awarded by (present and
future) National (or Regional) Agencies that
satisfy the EUR-ACE Framework Standards.
• The EUR-ACE label is “added” to the “national”
accreditation, thus giving it an international value
• The label distinguishes between FIRST CYCLE
and SECOND CYCLE DEGREES, in accord with
the EQF.
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Six Agencies form the initial “core” of the EUR-ACE
system:
ASIIN (DE)
EC (UK)
IEI-EngineersIreland
CTI (FR)
OE (Engineers Portugal)
RAEE (RU)
The representatives of these Agencies sit in the
EUR-ACE Label Committee
tasked with facilitating the development
and monitoring the progress of the system
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The initial core of the EUR-ACE
system includes six countries (France,
Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Russia, UK) with
very different educational and professional
systems,
such to constitute a very significant sample of
the EHEA countries, both within and outside
the EU.
We hope to enlarge rapidly the EUR-ACE
system: at a very early stage it should include
also Turkey (MÜDEK) and
the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO).
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EUR-ACE
Label
Certificate
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EUR-ACE Labels Awarded by end 2007
• Germany ASIIN: 16 programmes (many HEIs queuing)
• Russia RAEE: 11 programmes
• Engineers Ireland: 40 = 30 FCD & 10 SCD
• UK ECUK: 10
• Portugal OE: 6-7 by April 2008
• France CTI: 40-50 in 2008 (some remaining difficulties)
Yesterday 20 November 2007 I had the honour and
pleasure of handing the first seven EUR-ACE
certificates issued by RAEE to the representatives of
the three relevant HEIs
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On 12 October 2007, in view of the different meanings of
Bachelor and Master in different countries, the ENAEE
AC has decided to suspend the use of the terms
EUROPEAN ACCREDITED ENGINEERING BACHELOR
and
EUROPEAN ACCREDITED ENGINEERING MASTER
and define the programmes as either
FIRST-CYCLE EUROPEAN ACCREDITED
ENGINEERING PROGRAMME
or
SECOND-CYCLE EUROPEAN ACCREDITED
ENGINEERING PROGRAMME
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Summing up,
ENAEE is creating a two-tier system of accredited
engineering programmes, distinct into FC and SC:
additional qualifications (e.g. for specialized degrees)
are not excluded.
The experience of old-established national
Accreditation bodies is being fully exploited.
This approach and the essential distinction into FCD
and SCD should make the EUR-ACE system at the
same time flexible and simple.
Third Cycle (Doctoral) degrees are not (yet) considered.
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Beside EUR-ACE, there exists the “global” system of the
“International Engineering Accords”
that appears much more complicated:
Three different accreditation “accords”:
•Washington Accord
•Sydney Accord
•Dublin Accord
Three different “registers”:
•EMF International Register of Professional Engineers
•ETMF Internat. Register of Engineering Technologists
•APEC Register of Professional Engineers
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Moreover, the I-E-A system includes a fundamental
differentiation/barrier between
“Professional Engineers” & “Engineering Technologists”
(which is not in the spirit of the Bologna Process nor of
the EU Directive 2005/36 on recognition of professional
qualifications…
and in many languages is not even understandable…),
and at the same time defines all recognized (accredited)
“Engineers’ ” degrees as “Bachelor”.
Nevertheless, one of the immediate ENAEE challenges is to
find a suitable “matching” with the I.E.A.
Indeed, two of the EUR-ACE system partners (ECUK, IEI)
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are founding partners of the Washington Accord.
For up-to-date information on
the EUR-ACE system,
ENAEE
and related documents & events
visit
www.enaee.eu
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Giuliano Augusti
President of ENAEE
Coordinator of EUR-ACE IMPLEMENTATION
[email protected]
Tel.(+39)06.4458.5155;
mobile:(+39)320.4271831
www.enaee.eu
Earlier version of the EUR-ACE label certificates:
EUROPEAN ACCREDITED ENGINEERING BACHELOR
(FIRST-CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME)
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EUROPEAN ACCREDITED ENGINEERING MASTER
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(SECOND-CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME)