AGREEMENTS/POSITION PAPERS/STATEMENTS:

AGREEMENTS

• FEANI and EYE (European Young Engineers’ association) have signed a cooperation agreement (23 February 2007).  Full text of agreement, see here
  
  
• A similar cooperation agreement has been signed between FEANI and BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) in November 2007 – see here
   

POSITION PAPERS

• FEANI Position Paper on ‘Energy’:
  At the FEANI Academic Session in the framework of the Annual Business Meetings 2007 in ES-Valencia, FEANI was particularly pleased that Mr. Vinois, Head of Unit C1 at the EU Commission’s DG Energy, had accepted FEANI’s invitation to give an overview about the strategy of the European Commission for the energy supply in Europe. His remarkable speech, particularly well documented, found a lot of interest among the Session’s participants and will be of great help for FEANI to prepare its position paper on the subject, to be finalized in 2008.

   
• FEANI Position Paper on Engineering Skills Shortage in Europe (approved by General Assembly on 5 October 2007) + Annex
  
  
• FEANI Position Paper on Code of Conduct: Ethics and Conduct of Professional Engineers (approved by General Assembly on 29 September 2006)
  
  
• FEANI Position Paper on Research and Development (approved by General Assembly on 29 September 2006)
  
  
• In April 2006, FEANI sent a first Position Paper on the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) to the EU Commission’s Directorate General Research in the framework of its consultation process on the subject. 
  
  
• FEANI:  Competence of Professional Engineers/EUR ING (April 2005)
  
  
• FEANI Position Paper on the Directive COM(2002)119 final on the 'Recognition of Professional Qualifications' (October 2003)
  
  
• FEANI Position Paper on Bologna and Prague Declarations (September 2003)
  
  
• FEANI Position Paper on Bologna and Prague Declarations (November 2001)
  
  

STATEMENTS

• FEANI Statement on EIT (European Institute of Technology): Speech by Dr. W.Fuchs on 2 May 2007 at the European Parliament
  - English version
  - German version
  
  
• FEANI address at opening session of the 7th WFEO World Congress on Engineering Education in Budapest/Hungary on 4 March 2006
  
  
• FEANI EQF Statement
  In summer 2005, the EU Commission's DG Education and Culture, Directorate Lifelong Learning, Education and Training policies, launched a major consultation related to a European Commission staff working document "Towards European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning".

  More on this consultation can be found in the following documents:
  Letter from the EU Commission 
  Overview of the EQF
  EQF Consultation
  
  FEANI prepared the following document providing a pan-European answer on some of the points raised by the DG Education and Culture regarding the qualifications of professional engineers taking into account the diversities encountered in the different EU Member States: FEANI EQF document
  
  FEANI was invited to and participated in the ‘Consultation to Recommendation Conference’ on 27/28 February 2006 in Budapest organized by the EU Commission.
  

• FEANI Statement at the European Parliament Hearing on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications (1 October 2002)
  
  
• FEANI statement on an Consultation Exercise on the Future Regime for Professional Recognition (27 September 2001)
  
  
• Statement from the European Commission on a question addressed by Mr Christian Rovsing (PPE) on the FEANI Register and whether the EUR ING title may facilitate the free circulation of professionals in the EEC (10 March 1994)