Estonia

President and Secretary General : Mr. Arvi HAMBURG

Liivalaia 9, EE-10118 TALLINN
Tel: + 372 6303 130
Fax: + 372 6313 884
Email: arvi.hamburg@gaas.ee
Internet address: www.insener.ee

Adhesion: 1995

Declared Engineers: 810

Number of EUR INGs: 33 (as at May 2007)

Member Associations

Estonian Association of Engineers (EAE) comprises all the major engineering institutions in Estonia, and represents Estonian engineers in the matters of importance to the engineering profession as a whole.

The major institutions, the founder members of the EAE, are:

In addition, the EAE comprises more specialised societies (e.g. Illuminating Engineering Society, Materials Society) and regional centres of engineers (e.g. in Tartu, Põlva, Põrnu). Some of the major institutions have a hierarchical structure, such as the Institution of Electrical Engineers which has, in turn, four members : Automation Society, Electronics Society, Electrical Power Society, Informatics Society.

All these organisations have been established, or substantially re-organised in the 90's, after Estonia recovered its independence.

The member institutions have delegated to EAE the following areas of activity:

• co-ordination of interdisciplinary activities
• development and unification of requirements and procedures for awarding the title of chartered engineer
• co-ordinating and monitoring the functioning of Continuing Professional Development
• preparing (in co-operation with governmental bodies) the legal foundation for the engineering profession
• international relations in general problems of the engineering profession

At the same time, all the EAE member organisations are completely autonomous in their particular engineering fields (except the regulations approved by the EAE).

The EAE and its member institutions do not deal with Trade Union type of problems, but concentrate on the professional aspects.