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Content
I.
About FEANI
II.
Regulation of the Engineering Profession and
Level of Training of Engineers in Europe
III.
EUR ING and INDEX
IV.
The Professional Card
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I. <FEANI
The European Professional Engineer Organization
Created September 1951 in Luxembourg by Professional Engineer
Organizations from 7 European countries:
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg
Today:
FEANI unites Professional Organizations from 26 EU countries
> 80 National Engineering Associations
> 2 million professional Engineers
Possible next Members:
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French and Norwegian organizations re-integration
Organizations from Russia, Serbia Montenegro, Croatia
Applications received from other candidates: Turkey
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I. <FEANI
The European Professional Engineer Organization
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BG
CH
CY
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Cyprus
Österreichisches Nationalkomitee der FEANI
Comité National Belge de la FEANI (CNB/BNC)
Federation of Scientific Technical Unions in Bulgaria (FNTS)
Schweizer Nationalkomitee für FEANI
FEANI Cyprus National Committee
CZ
Czech Republic
DE
Germany
DK
Denmark
Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies
(CSVTS)
Deutscher Verband Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine
(DVT)
Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark (IDA)
EE
ES
FI
GB
Estonia
Spain
Finland
United Kingdom
Estonian Association of Engineers
Comite Nacional Espanol de la FEANI
The Finnish National Committee for FEANI
British National FEANI Committee
GR
HU
IE
IS
IT
LU
MT
NL
PL
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Comité National Hellénique de la FEANI
Hungarian National Committee for FEANI
The Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI)
Association of Chartered Engineers of Iceland
Consiglio Nazionale Ingegneri (CNI)
Comité National de la FEANI
Chamber of Engineers
Netherlands National FEANI Committee
Polish Federation of Engineering Associations
PT
RO
SE
SI
Portugal
Romania
Sweden
Slovenia
Ordem dos Engenheiros
The General Association of Engineers in Romania (AGIR)
Swedish National Committee for FEANI
Slovenian National Committee for FEANI
SK
Slovakia
Slovak National Committee for FEANI (SNKF)
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I. <FEANI
The European Professional Engineer Organization
• Headquarters of the Federation:
Secretariat General in Brussels, Belgium
• In each country where FEANI is present:
1 FEANI National Member, composed by one or several
National professional engineering organizations
• Principle of Working within the Federation:
Subsidiarity
FEANI Secretariat General - an umbrella organization for EU Affairs
FEANI National Members – for National Affairs
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I. <FEANI
The European Professional Engineer Organization
General Assembly (GA): each National Member (NM) is represented
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The highest decision making body
Decides the general policies
The budget
Elects the Executive Board
Executive Board: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and 6 Officers
• Nominated by the General Assembly for a 3-year term
• Responsible for implementing the policies and decisions approved by the GA
Secretary General:
• Implements the policies and decisions as delegated by the Board
• In charge of the day-to-day business of the Secretariat General
• A permanent function
System of Shares:
• Each NM may acquire a certain number of shares (between 1 and 11)
representing a certain number of criteria (gross national product, population,
number of Engineers, …)
• Determines weight of voting of the National Members at the GA only for
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some decisions (Statutes, new Members, …)
I. <FEANI
The European Professional Engineer Organization
Purpose:
• Through its National Members, help the Engineers to improve their
career development
• To affirm the professional identity of the Engineers of Europe by
• ensuring the professional qualifications of Engineers of member
countries are acknowledged in Europe and worldwide
• asserting status, role, and responsibility of Engineers in society
• safeguarding and promoting the professional interests of Engineers
• facilitating their free movement within Europe and worldwide
• To strive for a single voice for the engineering profession of Europe,
whilst acknowledging its diversity in
• developing a working cooperation with other international organizations
concerned with engineering matters
• representing the Engineers of Europe in international organizations and
other decision making bodies
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I. <FEANI
The European Professional Engineer Organization
In this framework, every three years, the Executive Board defines
new Strategic Objectives/Strategic Projects
For the period 2006-2009 the priority areas are:
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EUR-ACE (Accreditation of European Engineering Programmes
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Improve-consolidate International Role of FEANI
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Implement Professional Card for European Engineers
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Prepare Position Papers on key societal issues
… in addition to the on-going work of the FEANI Committees
(EMC, CPDC) and the on-going activities in view of EU relations,
finances, communication
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II. Regulation of the Engineering Profession and
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of Engineers in Europe
Ref: www.feani.org
Publication: FEANI Special News 10/2005
Foreword
In the European Union, each EU country is alone responsible for
defining the Education/Formation/Academic Title as well as to
regulate or not the access to the profession
 Education and access to the profession are not community domain
of responsibility
 The principles of ‘Bologna’ are implemented in each country
according to their national interpretation
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of Engineers in Europe
Ref: www.feani.org
Publication: FEANI Special News 10/2005
Results of a
FEANI Survey 2005
a)… on Education and
Academic Title
- Very difficult to compare title
and content of Education
between two EU countries
- By today, implementation of
the Bologna Declaration has
not solved the problem
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of Engineers in Europe
Ref: www.feani.org
Publication: FEANI Special News 10/2005
Results of a FEANI
Survey 2005
b)… on Regulating
the Access to
the Profession
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of Engineers in Europe
Ref: www.feani.org
Publication: FEANI Special News 10/2005
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
• Consequence of this complex situation concerning Training
and Regulation:
- serious problem of recognition for Engineers who want to
exercise in another European country and have their
‘competence’ recognized
- great restrain for the mobility
• FEANI contribution for promoting Mobility and Recognition:
the EUR ING title, designed as a guaranty of competence for
professional Engineers
- Establish a framework of mutual recognition of qualifications
and facilitate the movement of practicing Engineers within
and outside the geographical area represented by FEANI’s
member countries
- Provide information about the various formation systems of
individual Engineers for the benefit of prospective employers
- Encourage the continuous improvement of the quality of
Engineers by setting, monitoring, and reviewing standards
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
FEANI’s ‘private’ title EUR ING criteria:
• Formation Framework for all Professional Engineers
• Sufficient flexibility to meet the individual requirements of its
different National Members
• 7 years of Formation:
Education
Training
Experience
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T
E
between 3 and 5 years
minimum 2 years
B + 3U = 2U/T/E + 2E
• The FEANI professional
formation framework:
3U
4E
3U
2T
2E
B
3,5 U
5U
0,5T
3E
2E
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
Application for the EUR ING title:
 Step 1: FEANI National Monitoring Committee (at National Member)
 Step 2: FEANI European Monitoring Committee (EMC)
- 13 experts from 13 countries
Deliverable:
- a ‘parchment’
- a ‘certificate’ with the data of the candidate
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
The EUR ING is based on the FEANI INDEX
• Contains for the countries a list of institutions of engineering
higher education where FEANI is present and their engineering
programmes, which are recognized by FEANI as fulfilling the
mandatory requirements for the EUR ING title
• Centrally maintained at the Secretariat General
• Conditions for a programme to be included in the INDEX:
a minimum duration of 3 years (180 ECTS), and providing a
suitable balance of basic sciences, engineering sciences, and
non-technical subjects
• The acceptance process is based on a description of the
teaching staff qualifications, in terms of academic degrees
and professional experience, and of laboratory facilities used
by the programme
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
The FEANI INDEX
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The INDEX includes
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more than 9,600 programmes
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about 2,600 different names of programmes
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more than 970 schools
The INDEX comprises
• a short description of the national engineering educational
and professional systems
• the names of the accepted institutions of engineering
higher education and their accepted programmes
• the academic title in the national language
• the nominal duration of study, expressed in U and T
• the period of validity of the course
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
The FEANI INDEX
(cont)
Until now:
Acceptance process exclusively done by by FEANI experts
Next step:
From a FEANI proprietary system of acceptance to an open
European accreditation system  EUR-ACE
EUR-ACE accredited course will be accepted in the FEANI INDEX
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III. EUR <ING & INDEX
of FEANI
• Recognition of the EU Commission: T
The European Commission, in a statement to the European Parliament, has
recognized the FEANI Register and the EUR ING designation as valuable tools
for the recognition of national diplomas among Member States
" The FEANI scheme is an excellent example of self-regulation by a profession at
European level and it provides a model for other professional groups in the technical
and scientific sector, such as chemists and physicists. The FEANI register recognizes
and builds upon the diversity of forms of engineering education which exist in the
Community and can adapt to any changes which may be decided upon at national
level. The procedures for dealing with applications for registration also provide a good
respective expertise. Registration on the FEANI register indicates that, whatever the
duration or content of his or her initial training, the engineer has reached a certain
level of professional competence, certified by his or her peers both at national and
European level. Bearing in mind that Member States are required by the caselaw of
the Court to take post-diploma professional experience into consideration, when
reaching their decision on recognition, the Commission considers that an engineer
who has obtained the title of Eur Ing should not normally be required to undertake an
adaptation period or sit an aptitude test, as provided for in Article 4 of Directive
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89/48/EEC."
IV. The Professional
Card
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for Engineers
From a FEANI EUR ING propriety title to an open recognition
concept: The Professional Card
Legal framework: The new EU Directive on ‘Recognition of
Professional Qualifications’ supports professional organizations
with EU coverage to issue a ‘Professional Card’
However, the Professional Card is not a legally binding document and its
use, in the countries regulating the profession, does not replace nor
overrule the national legislation in place related to recognition of
professional qualifications
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IV. The Professional
Card
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for Engineers
The Project ‘Professional Card’
• Project introduced in the framework of the EU ‘Year of
Mobility 2006’ - by FEANI and EUROCADRES
• Step 1: Investigate the feasibility and added value for
deploying a Professional Card for Engineers and set up
a concept
• Step 2: Implement the concept of a Professional Card –
if results of step 1 are positive
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IV. The Professional
Card
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for Engineers
Benefits for the Cardholder
 European validated and crosschecked Professional Engineer Identity
card with unambiguous mention of his formal qualifications based on a
European qualification framework
 Pan-European standardized and structured knowledge about his
national and European accredited (based on the EUR ACE Standards
procedure) qualifications in engineering
 Mobility facilitator in EU and worldwide
 Universal quality symbol
 Be recognized as committed to respect a strict Code of Deontology
with possible sanctions (future role of an European Institute of
Engineers)
 Emulation of a strong European Club Spirit and Networking within the
European engineer community
 De facto strong reinforcement of the Profession of Engineer in EU
 Increase of their European Social Status, Notoriety and Image
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IV. The Professional
Card
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for Engineers
Benefits for the Cardholder (cont)
 Access to possible recognized accredited lifelong learning courses with a
European dimension (European Academy for engineers lifelong learning) to
extend his competencies and skills,…
 Facilitate commitment to ensure lifelong learning and professional
development to the cardholder to maintain and increase his level of
competencies and skills, to plan annually individual engineers training
courses and to issue company certificates to their engineers attesting yearly
learning outcomes reached (to be negotiated)
 Access to the National services offered by the engineering associations in the
different MS part of the ENGCARD consortium (to be negotiated)
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IV. The Professional
Card
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for Engineers
Benefits for the Cardholder (cont)
 Preferential Access to other potential associated pan European services
(to be negotiated):
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Newsletters, Websites, Who is Who, Forum, …
European events for engineers (conferences, fairs, seminars,…..)
Subscription Magazines, Technical literature, books,…
European Legal Employment assistance
Mobility assistance
Job searches, International/European jobs, CV posting,….
European Professional insurance
European Health Insurance and Complementary Pension plan
European Credit card, Calling card, Hotspot access, Rent a car card, ….,
Hotels and Airplanes discount and loyalties,…..,
Others ….
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IV. The Professional
Card
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for Engineers
Registration procedure:
The future cardholder should register, follow an
administrative (partially web based) procedure,
deliver certified copies of several documents and
participate eventually to an assessment organized
by the ENGCARD partners
he will pay a renewable subscription fee and must
commit with the deontology code
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