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EUR-ACE
Accreditation of European Engineering Programmes
(First Cycle – Second Cycle)
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FEANI Motivation for involvement in EUR-ACE
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EUR-ACE Projects
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EUR-ACE Standards and Accreditation
Procedures
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I. FEANI
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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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Norwegian organizations re-integration
Applications received from other candidates: Turkey
* 29 countries starting 2007, including Russia (RUSEA) as Provisional Member
Ph. Wauters, October 2006
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I. FEANI
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The FEANI INDEX
The FEANI INDEX (started in the 80’s):
• Contains for the countries where FEANI is present a list of
institutions of engineering higher education and their
engineering programmes, which are recognized as fulfilling
the FEANI standards
• 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
• The INDEX database is centrally maintained at the Secretariat
General
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I. FEANI
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The FEANI INDEX
The FEANI INDEX
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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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I. FEANI
FEANI Motivation for
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in EUR-ACE
The FEANI INDEX
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Until now:
Acceptance process exclusively done 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
Ph. Wauters, October 2006
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II. The EUR-ACE
Project
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A EU Socrates-Tempus financed project
Objective:
Set up a European System for Accreditation of Engineering Education
• to provide a ‘European Label’ of the accredited programmes as
entry route to the profession
EUR-ACE Trademark
• to facilitate transnational recognition of the education programme
by European label marketing
• to facilitate recognition of the graduate by National authorities of
the European Member States (in line with the EU Directive on
Recognition of Professional Qualifications)
• to facilitate universal recognition agreements
Ph. Wauters, October 2006
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II. The EUR-ACE
Project
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A EU Socrates-Tempus financed project
Output:
• An Accreditation Framework with 6 Programme Outcomes of
accredited engineering degrees
• For First Cycle and Second Cycle
• Mandatory as entry route to the profession
• Approved by unanimity by the partners
• To be implemented from now on by authorized accreditation
institutes
 delivery of the EUR-ACE label to the successful
accredited programmes
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II. The EUR-ACE Project
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Overview of EUR-ACE and Derived Projects
07/2004
03/2006
Project EUR-ACE 1
Legal Representative: FEANI
Partners:
SEFI; CESAER; EUROCADRES;
ENQHEEI; ASIIN; CTI; IEI; CoPI; UNIFI;
OE; UAICR; RAEE; EC UK
Output: EUR-ACE Framework Standards and
Procedures + Statutes + Financial Plan for ENAEE
Two Projects derived from ENAEE
with FEANI participation:
PROEAST
won
LEPAC
Implementation of EUR-ACE
Standards in Russia
Implementation in Lebanon
open
03/2006
09/2006
New Project EUR-ACE 2
Legal Representative: UNIFI
Partners:
ENAEE; FEANI; SEFI; EUROCADRES;
EUA; IDA; ASIIN; AUA; CTI; IEI; CoPI; CRUI;
NVAO; OE; EC UK; UAICR; MÜDEK
Implementation of EUR-ACE Framework
Standards in Europe; Accreditation to be made by
accreditation institutes (existing ones and new
ones to be set up)
Founding of ENAEE aisbl
Partners: FEANI; EC UK; CTI; BBT;
ASIIN; OE; CoPI; UAICR; SEFI; IEI;
RAEE; UNIFI;EUROCADRES; IDA;
Project infrastructure and
competence to implement EUR-ACE
Trademark; Maintain Standards;
Income should come from EU funding,
accreditations, partners
Financial Plan:
Staff: 1 Project Manager;
publications, marketing, PR, seminars
To be executed by ENAEE
Projects funded by the EU
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Ph. Wauters, 10/2006
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II. The EUR-ACE Project
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Project EUR-ACE 1: Partners
6 European Engineering Associations/Networks/Higher
Education Institutes
FEANI (Contracting Partner), SEFI, CESAER,
EUROCADRES, ENQHEEI, UNIFI/TREE
8 National Associations/Agencies active in Engineering
Accreditation
ASIIN (Germany), CTI (France), EC (UK),
Engineers Ireland, CoPI (Italy), OE (Portugal),
UAICR (Romania),
RAEE (Russia): TEMPUS partner
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