The focus of the project is on the ins and outs of the draft innovative concept for ENGCARD that has been designed by FEANI in collaboration with EUROCADRES (Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff). The objectives of that concept will be materialized by the delivery of European Engineer Professional Cards certifying and validating the qualifications of the cardholders.

The ENGCARD concept mainly concentrates on the mobility’s aspects related to the transparency and the recognition of qualifications and competences.

After a first series of presentations of the concept, it appears that the added value of a ENGCARD has been positively recognized as a mobility facilitator for migrant engineers.

The concept of ENGCARD is thus not yet definitively fixed and some reorientations or changes may occur to take into account the results of the ongoing consultations. The notion of ENGCARD to be set- up by European professional organization refers to the “Whereas 36” of the recently adopted Directive 2005/36 on Recognition of Professional Qualifications and on the Decision n°2241/2004/EC on a Single Community Framework for the transparency of qualifications and competences – EUROPASS.

The European Engineers Professional Card will be a facilitator for mobility and recognition as well in

Europe as worldwide. However, it will not replace or overrule the national legislation in place in some EU Member States regarding the ‘de jure’ recognition of qualifications in the countries regulating the profession of engineer.

One of the major difficulties encountered by engineers moving on a temporary or permanent basis to work in another country as their country of origin (in the European Union or elsewhere) is to have their

professional qualifications recognized at their fair worth and merit.

This is due to the lack of harmonization at European level (or global) such that, within the engineer context, everything is different, namely from one EU Member State to another : education engineering contents, learning outcomes and programs, the definition of an engineer itself, the recognition of professional qualifications and the professional regulations, the mode of pursuit of the profession, ….

The delivery of a professional identity card might become in the future the fourth card each EU-citizens will have after his/hers identity card, driving license card and social security card.

EUROCADRES would very much hear your opinion on this concept, be it negative, positive or neutral.

If you want to participate with your opinion, send a mail to  mats.pahlman@eurocadres.org as soon as possible, and you will get more detailed information by mail.