Presentation
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Presentation
ENAEE,
the “European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education”, stems out
of ESOEPE, the “European Standing Observatory for the Engineering Profession
and Education”, which was established on 9 September 2000 with the purpose of
"build[ing] confidence in systems of accreditation of engineering degree
programmes within Europe", and facilitating "exchange of
information", "voluntary agreements on accreditation of engineering
educational programmes and recognition of engineering qualifications" and
"the development of standards on the competence requirements of graduate
engineers" (click for the founding agreement and more details on ESOEPE).
To
pursue these aims, ESOEPE took the initiative of proposing to the European
Commission (DG Education and Culture) the EUR-ACE (“EURopean Accredited
Engineer”) project, approved in August 2004. Between September 2004 and March
2006 EUR-ACE has elaborated a proposal for an European system of accreditation
of engineering programmes at the First and Second Cycle level (including
programmes leading directly to a SC degree): in the envisaged system,
“national” engineering accreditations agencies should continue to award
their certificates, and the common EUR-ACE quality label be added to them.
In
order to contribute more effectively to the development of quality assurance and
accreditation policies in European engineering education, ESOEPE had decided to
transform itself into a formal International Non-profit Association, denoted
ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education), as ratified
by two ESOEPE General Assemblies (October 2005; March 2006).
ENAEE
has been formally established on 8 February 2006 by 14 associations concerned
with engineering education throughout Europe (see the list of founding ENAEE
members and the Statutes by clicking on French
Original Statutes; English
Translation).
The
first ENAEE General Assembly took place on 30 March 2006 and elected the ENAEE Administrative
Council and the ENAEE President.
The Permanent
Secretariat of ENAEE has been entrusted to FEANI.
ENAEE is committed to
implementing the EUR-ACE proposals and creating the EUR-ACE system of accredited
engineering educational programmes: a General Policy Statement that will detail
this commitment is being prepared and will be submitted to the next General
Assembly, together with appropriate Bye-Laws. In the meantime, the
ENAEE Administrative Council has nominated in its first meeting the “EUR-ACE
Label Committee”, charged with starting the EUR-ACE system.
ENAEE
has also promoted and sponsored the presentation of three new grant applications
to the EC (DG EaC), namely:
a)
under the “Socrates” Programme, a project (EUR-ACE
IMPLEMENTATION), that
aims at making the EUR-ACE proposals operational by
All
ENAEE members, and other organizations, are partners of the EUR-ACE
IMPLEMENTATION project.
b)
under the “Tempus-Tacis” Programme, a project (PRO-EAST:
Promotion and Implementation of EUR-ACE Standards), aimed at disseminating and
applying the EUR-ACE standards in the Russian Federation. [This project has just
been approved for funding by the European Commission.]
c)
under the “Tempus-Meda” Programme, a project (LEPAC:
Creation of a Lebanese Engineering Programs Accreditation Commission) aimed at
using the EUR-ACE approach for establishing a national system of accreditation
of engineering programmes in Lebanon.
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ENAEE
Founding Members; their Representatives in the General
Assembly (2006-2009)
FEANI
Aisbl, 18 Avenue Roger Vandendriessche, B-1150 Bruxelles; Heinz Müller <h.mueller@fh-aargau.ch>
ENGINEERING
COUNCIL UK, 10 Maltravers Street, London WC2R 3ER, UK; Jim Birch <jbirch@engc.org.uk>
CTI – COMMISSION DES TITRES D’INGENIEURS, 135
Avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France; François Tailly <FTailly@aol.com>
ASIIN – FACHAKKREDITIERUNGSAGENTUR FÜR STUDIENGÄNGE
DER INGENIEURWISSENSCHAFTEN, DER INFORMATIK, DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN UND DER
MATHEMATIK e.V, PO Box 101139, D-40002 Düsseldorf; Iring Wasser <gf@ASIIN.de>
ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS, 13 Av. Sidonio
Pais, 1050-212 Lisbon, Portugal; Sebastiao
Feyo <sfeyo@fe.up.pt>
CoPI – CONFERENZA DEI PRESIDI DELLE FACOLTA’DI
INGEGNERIA ITALIANE, c/o Universita La Sapienza – Facolta’ di Ingegneria,
Via Eudossana 18, I-00184 Roma, Alfredo
Squarzoni <a.squarzoni@unige.it>
UAICR – UNIUNEA ASOCIATILOR INGINERILOR
CONSTRUCTORI DIN ROMANIA, Bul.Lacul.Tei 124, 020396 Bucharest, RO; Iacint
Manoliu <manoliu@utcb.ro>
SEFI – SOCIETE EUROPEENNE POUR LA FORMATION
D’INGENIEURS, 119 rue de Stassart, B-1050 Bruxelles, Jorg Steinbach <VP1@tu-berlin.de>
IEI
– THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin
4, Irlande, Denis Mc Grath
<denismcgrath@engineersireland.ie>
RAEE
– RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION, Office 237a, 30 Lenin avenue,
TPU, Tomsk 634050, Russia; Oleg Boev
<ovb@ac-raee.ru>
EUROCADRES – CONSEIL DES CADRES EUROPEENS, 5
boulevard du Roi Albert II, B-1210 Bruxelles; Pierre Compte <pierre.compte@equipement.gouv.fr>
UNIFI – UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE, Via di
Santa Marta 3, I-50139 Firenze; Claudio
Borri <intreling@unifi.it>
IDA
– THE DANISH SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 31-33 Kalvebod Brygge, 1780 Copenhagen V,
DK; Vibeke Fahlen <vf@ida.dk>
FOTEP
- FEDERAL OFFICE FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY, 27 Effingerstrasse,
3003 Bern, CH; Gaston Wolf <wolf.gaston@bluewin.ch>
ENAEE
Administrative
Council (2006-2009)
Giuliano Augusti, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, IT (Chairman);
Philippe Wauters, FEANI, BE
(Treasurer),
Alan
Pugh, EC, UK;
Jean-Michel
Siwak, CTI, FR;
Iring Wasser, ASIIN, DE;
Alexander
I. Chuchalin, RAEE, RU;
Christer
Forslund, EUROCADRES, SE.
EUR-ACE
Label Committee
Iring
Wasser, ASIIN, DE (Chairman);
Denis
McGrath, Engineers Ireland,
René-Paul Martin, CTI, FR,
Antonio Salgado de Barros, OE,
PT,
Ian
Freeston, EC, UK,
Oleg Boev, RAEE, RU.
ENAEE
Permanent
Secretariat
c/o
FEANI, 18 Avenue Roger Vandendriessche,
1150 Bruxelles, BE
[Philippe WAUTERS philippe.wauters@feani.org]