The EUR ING title and the FEANI Register 

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The goal of this Group, created by the FEANI General Secretariat, is to help EUR INGs to reach other EUR INGs and to create a strong community of qualified engineers in the EU. It should also accelerate careers/business through referrals from EUR ING Group members in the EU and worldwide.

The website of the EUR ING Group is:
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LinkedIn is the renowned business-oriented social networking website launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking purposes. LinkedIn is a free WWW based infrastructure to allow people to find previous colleagues or classmates, jobs, projects, contracts, … and share their professional (or private) relationships. In December 2007, the traffic on this website reached 3.2 million visitors per month and it had more than 25 million registered users.

The purpose of LinkedIn is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite other persons to become a Connection.

LinkedIn participates in the EU’s International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.  

The feature LinkedIn Answers allows users to ask questions for the community to answer.

The feature LinkedIn Group allows to create groups as ‘community’ of persons sharing common characteristics as university alumni, corporate alumni, professional groups, … 

Important message to EUR INGs:

We invite all EUR INGs, who have obtained their title before 2001 (from that date, the e-mail address has been requested on the application form), to communicate their e-mail address (do not forget to specify your parchment number) to the FEANI General Secretariat by clicking on this e-mail link: francoise.declercq@feani.org

The e-mail address will be used exclusively for bilateral communication and will not be transmitted to a third party, for instance to employment agencies, unless permission will be given explicitly before.

1. The EUR ING title

The EUR ING title delivered by FEANI is designed as a guarantee of competence for professional engineers, in order

• to facilitate the movement of practicing engineers within and outside the geographical area represented by FEANI's member countries and to establish a framework of mutual recognition of qualifications in order to enable engineers who wish to practice outside their own country to carry with them a guarantee of competence
• to provide information about the various formation systems of individual engineers for the benefit of prospective employers
• to encourage the continuous improvement of the quality of engineers by setting, monitoring and reviewing standards

The EUR INGs are listed in the FEANI Register, a database maintained by the Secretariat General in Brussels. Currently over 30.700 European Engineers are listed in the register (December 2009). The "Guide to the FEANI Register" (see section "Guide" gives the details on the purpose of the Register and how it is managed.

The European Commission, in a statement to the European Parliament, has recognized the FEANI Register and the EUR ING title 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."

Note : The Directive 89/48/EEC has been replaced by the Directive 2005/36/EC - Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications, signed on 7 September 2005 in Strassbourg.  

1.1 Criteria for the EUR ING Title

The criteria for the EUR ING title are described in detail in the "Guide". The basic principles are presented hereafter.

Principles and structure of the educational and professional systems in Europe vary considerably. Their value is judged by FEANI according to the potential competence of the engineer who emerges from them.

The qualification of the engineer, which falls into two main categories of different but equally important competencies - more theory oriented and more application oriented - first requires an approved engineering education. But full professional competence is only reached after gaining valid professional experience.

After a secondary education at a high level validated by one or more official certificates, normally awarded at the age of about 18 years, a minimum total period of seven years' formation - education, training and experience -is required by FEANI for the EUR ING title. This formation consists of:

• Minimum three years of engineering education successfully completed by an official degree, in a discipline/programme and given by a university (U) or other recognized body at university level, recognised by FEANI (see FEANI Index).
• Minimum two years of valid professional experience (E) .
• In case the education and experience together is less than the minimum seven years' formation required, the balance to seven years should be covered by education (U), experience (E), or training (T) monitored by the approved engineering institutions, or by preliminary engineering professional experience.

In addition to these formation requirements, EUR INGs are required to comply with a Code of Conduct respecting the provisions of the FEANI Position Paper on Code of Conduct: Ethics and Conduct of Professional Engineers. 

1.1.a What is Engineering Education?

An Engineering Education must provide a thorough knowledge of the principles of engineering, based on mathematics, physics and computer science appropriate to his or her discipline. Any engineer listed in the FEANI Register is guaranteed to have had such an education.

1.1.b What is Professional Engineering Experience and Training?

The duration of professional engineering experience shall be at least two years and include the following:

• The solution of problems requiring the application of engineering science in the fields such as research, development, design, production, construction, installation, maintenance, engineering sales and marketing, and
• Management or guiding of technical staff or
• The financial, economical, statutory or legal aspects of engineering tasks, or
• Industrial and/or environmental problem solving.

1.2 Who can apply for EUR ING Title ?

• Application is open only to individuals if they are members of an engineering association represented in FEANI through a National Member (see section "Members").

1.3 How to apply for the EUR ING Title?

• The fully completed Application Form together with the requested supporting documents must be submitted to the National Member where the applicant is registered either directly or indirectly through his/her engineering association. To do so, depending of the country, the documents are either directly sent to the National Member by the EUR ING Candidate or sent to the Association he/she belongs to, which then transmit it to the National Member (to be verified locally).
  For instance for UK, the applications should be sent to the appropriate Institution with the appropriate fee. The Institutions are listed in the section "Members". A Guidance Note to assist in completing the form is also available to UK applicants from their Institution.
  
  * Important note: For Italy, the Italian National Member, CNI (Consiglio Nazionale Ingegneri) does not accept to process EUR ING applications. CNI states that it would be against the Italian law to bear the EUR ING title in Italy. Indeed, the EUR ING being a professional title, would introduce a confusion with the Italian professional title which can only be delivered by the Italian administration for education.

  Consequently, an engineer with an education from Italy and professional experience in Italy only cannot introduce a request for EUR ING through the Italian National Member.
  However, if an engineer with an education from Italy exercises his profession in another European country and is a member of the FEANI National Member in that country, he may send his application to that National Member.
  An application sent directly to the FEANI Secretariat General cannot be considered.
  
  For further information see also section ‘Members’ (Italy) as well as information on ‘The National System of Higher Education in Engineering’ in Italy in the FEANI INDEX.
  

• We strongly encourage the applicant to use one of the Application Forms that can be downloaded from this page and to fill it in electronically. This will prevent any interpretation errors later in the process. See the "Guide to The FEANI Register" section 7.2 for further information and click here for an example of the "Professional Review Report" which must be included with your application (as described in section 1.1.b above).  The Application Form is available in English, French and German in MS Word 2000, MS Word 1997 and in Adobe PDF format. Click on one of the link to open the relevant form:
  
  EUR ING Application Form in Word 2000 format (latest update: 04/08/2008)
  EUR ING Application Form in Word 1997 format (latest update: 04/08/2008)
  EUR ING Application Form in Adobe PDF format  (latest update: 04/08/2008)
  
  EUR ING Formulaire de Candidature en Word 2000 format (dernière mise à jour: 04/08/2008)
  EUR ING Formulaire de Candidature en Word 1997 format (dernière mise à jour: 04/08/2008)
  EUR ING Formulaire de Candidature en Adobe PDF format (dernière mise à jour: 04/08/2008)
  
  EUR ING Antragsformular in Word 2000 format (letzte Aktualisierung: 04/08/2008)
  EUR ING Antragsformular in Word 1997 format (letzte Aktualisierung: 04/08/2008)
  EUR ING Antragsformular in Adobe PDF format (letzte Aktualisierung: 04/08/2008)
  
  Otherwise the form can be made available from the National Members  
  
  
• Please agree with your National Member on the way to send the application (by post mail or by e-mail).
  

1.4 How to know if the school/programme is recognised by FEANI?            

• In case a EUR ING candidate wants to know, before applying, if the school she/he graduated from as well as the programme she/he followed to achieve her/his degree is recognised by FEANI, she/he may ask this question to the relevant National Monitoring Committee directly.
  
  “You can also access the FEANI INDEX Data Base directly with the User Name: 'User' and the Password: 'feani' (please do NOT change the password to avoid blocking the access)

  Click Here and Enter User Name and Password to access The FEANI INDEX

 
1.5 Approval Procedure and Title

• The National Member, after formal verification of the application documents forward them to the FEANI National Monitoring Committee (NMC).
  
• The National Monitoring Committee examines the application and submits it after approval to the European Monitoring Committee (EMC).
  
• The EUR ING title is awarded by the European Monitoring Committee, according to criteria which have been approved by the FEANI General Assembly.
  
  
• On approval, the EUR ING receives:

  -  a Certificate according to the criteria mentioned in § 5.3 and 5.4 of the Guide to the FEANI Register :

  -  a Parchment suitable for wall display certifying the EUR ING title.
  
  -  a Questionnaire on Engineering Activities and Functions of EUR ING

  -  a document called 'FEANI Guidelines on Continuing Professional Development for Engineers in Europe'
  

1.6 Costs

• The fee for the EUR ING is determined by the General Assembly, it amounts to 140 Euros for 2010.
  Please note that some national members require an additional fee for their administrative costs.
  

2. The FEANI Register

Already at the beginning of the 1960s, FEANI was convinced that the engineering profession in Europe could not be strengthened without mutual recognition of the professional qualifications provided by the numerous and diversified national systems of education and training. Since then, FEANI has consistently worked to set up a structure to facilitate such recognition.

The first important achievement was the establishment in 1970 of a "European Register of Higher Technical Profession".

The development of industry and the evolution of the education and training systems led to extensive revision of this Register in the beginning of the 1980s and finally, in 1987, a new FEANI Register and the EUR ING title were introduced. The Register was gradually developed and in 1992 the General Assembly meeting approved the principles of registration and management of the Register.

The Register data base, listing all the EUR INGs, is maintained by the FEANI Secretariat General.

The consultation of the FEANI Register Data Base is reserved to the FEANI National Members (not EUR INGs), however limited to the EUR INGs registered at that National Member. 

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