1 < FEANI FEANI 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.

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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. FEANII. 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:

- French and Norwegian organizations re-integration- Organizations from Russia, Serbia Montenegro, Croatia- Applications received from other candidates: Turkey

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AT Austria Österreichisches Nationalkomitee der FEANI

BE Belgium Comité National Belge de la FEANI (CNB/BNC)

BG Bulgaria Federation of Scientific Technical Unions in Bulgaria (FNTS)

CH Switzerland Schweizer Nationalkomitee für FEANI

CY Cyprus FEANI Cyprus National Committee

CZ Czech Republic Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies (CSVTS)

DE Germany Deutscher Verband Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine (DVT)

DK Denmark Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark (IDA)

EE Estonia Estonian Association of Engineers

ES Spain Comite Nacional Espanol de la FEANI

FI Finland The Finnish National Committee for FEANI

GB United Kingdom British National FEANI Committee

GR Greece Comité National Hellénique de la FEANI

HU Hungary Hungarian National Committee for FEANI

IE Ireland The Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI)

IS Iceland Association of Chartered Engineers of Iceland

IT Italy Consiglio Nazionale Ingegneri (CNI)

LU Luxembourg Comité National de la FEANI

MT Malta Chamber of Engineers

NL Netherlands Netherlands National FEANI Committee

PL Poland Polish Federation of Engineering Associations

PT Portugal Ordem dos Engenheiros

RO Romania The General Association of Engineers in Romania (AGIR)

SE Sweden Swedish National Committee for FEANI

SI Slovenia Slovenian National Committee for FEANI

SK Slovakia Slovak National Committee for FEANI (SNKF)

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• 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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General Assembly (GA): each National Member (NM) is represented • 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 some decisions (Statutes, new Members, …)

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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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In this framework, every three years, the Executive Board defines

new Strategic Objectives/Strategic Projects

For the period 2006-2009 the priority areas are:

• EUR-ACE (Accreditation of European Engineering Programmes

• Improve-consolidate International Role of FEANI

• Implement Professional Card for European Engineers

• 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 II. Regulation of the Engineering Profession and level of training of Engineers in Europeand level of training of Engineers in Europe

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

Ref: www.feani.orgPublication: FEANI Special News 10/2005

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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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Results of a FEANI Survey 2005

b)… on Regulating the Access to the Profession


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<III. EUR ING & INDEXIII. 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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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 U between 3 and 5 years Training T

Experience E minimum 2 years

B + 3U = 2U/T/E + 2E

• The FEANI professional formation framework:

0,5T 3 E

2 E

2 T 2 E

3,5 U

5 U

3 U

3 U 4 E

B

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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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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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of FEANI

The FEANI INDEX (cont)

The INDEX includes

• more than 9,600 programmes

• about 2,600 different names of programmes

• 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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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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of FEANI

• Recognition of the EU Commission: TThe 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 89/48/EEC."

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<IV. The Professional CardIV. The Professional Card

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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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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for Engineers

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

Benefits for the Cardholder

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for Engineers

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)

Benefits for the Cardholder (cont)

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for Engineers

Preferential Access to other potential associated pan European services

(to be negotiated): o Newsletters, Websites, Who is Who, Forum, … o European events for engineers (conferences, fairs, seminars,…..) o Subscription Magazines, Technical literature, books,… o European Legal Employment assistance o Mobility assistance o Job searches, International/European jobs, CV posting,…. o European Professional insurance o European Health Insurance and Complementary Pension plan o European Credit card, Calling card, Hotspot access, Rent a car card, …., o Hotels and Airplanes discount and loyalties,….., o Others ….

Benefits for the Cardholder (cont)

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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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